From The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film: “Below are what I consider to be the most difficult novels to adapt, and who, if any, is fit to do that job.”
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Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard
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Also, Pale Fire, The Recognitions (and J.R.), and anything Henry Miller.
As to the “any Pynchon novel” - I don’t think there’s anything exceedingly unfilmable about Vineland. It actually reads like a movie in a lot of ways. Not that I’d really want to see it run up on a screen, of course, but I don’t think it’d be impossible.