61 Essential Postmodern Reads: Los Angeles Times

1.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating — 33,251 ratings
2.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,223 ratings
3.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 4.02 avg rating — 108,207 ratings
4.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,880 ratings
5.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,171 ratings
6.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,890 ratings
7.
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3) 3.86 avg rating — 84,255 ratings
8.
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories 4.18 avg rating — 6,083 ratings
9.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,016 ratings
10.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,305 ratings
11.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,894 ratings
12.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 4.14 avg rating — 306,568 ratings
13.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,097 ratings
14.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,435 ratings
15.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy 4.11 avg rating — 1,840 ratings
16.
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle 3.59 avg rating — 229,229 ratings
17.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.69 avg rating — 182,714 ratings
18.
Hopscotch
Hopscotch 4.20 avg rating — 47,311 ratings
18.
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. 3.83 avg rating — 2,461 ratings
20.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,669 ratings
21.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn 3.86 avg rating — 42,129 ratings
22.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 3.95 avg rating — 53,056 ratings
23.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,649 ratings
24.
The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,647 ratings
25.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating — 161,162 ratings
26.
The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine 3.83 avg rating — 10,002 ratings
27.
The Atrocity Exhibition
The Atrocity Exhibition 3.76 avg rating — 7,023 ratings
28.
The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana
The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana 3.38 avg rating — 12,600 ratings
29.
The Tunnel
The Tunnel 4.05 avg rating — 1,926 ratings
30.
Dispatches
Dispatches 4.22 avg rating — 21,212 ratings
31.
Notable American Women
Notable American Women 3.82 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
32.
Remainder
Remainder 3.67 avg rating — 8,328 ratings
33.
At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds 3.85 avg rating — 14,060 ratings
34.
Best of American Splendor
Best of American Splendor 4.11 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
35.
The Rings of Saturn
The Rings of Saturn 4.23 avg rating — 16,858 ratings
36.
In Memoriam to Identity
In Memoriam to Identity 3.84 avg rating — 461 ratings
36.
POENA DAMNI: THE TRILOGY (3-Book Box Set)
POENA DAMNI: THE TRILOGY (3-Book Box Set) 4.68 avg rating — 90 ratings
38.
The Hundred Brothers
The Hundred Brothers 3.65 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
38.
THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3)
THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3) 4.60 avg rating — 161 ratings
40.
With the People from the Bridge (Poena Damni Book 2)
With the People from the Bridge (Poena Damni Book 2) 4.56 avg rating — 100 ratings
41.
THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3)
THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3) 4.60 avg rating — 161 ratings
42.
Z213: EXIT (Poena Damni, #1)
Z213: EXIT (Poena Damni, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 232 ratings
43.
Z213: EXIT
Z213: EXIT 4.30 avg rating — 232 ratings
44.
Giles Goat-Boy
Giles Goat-Boy 3.75 avg rating — 2,231 ratings
45.
G.
G. 3.71 avg rating — 4,769 ratings
46.
The Loser
The Loser 4.03 avg rating — 12,398 ratings
47.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,696 ratings
48.
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine 4.07 avg rating — 922 ratings
49.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,436 ratings
50.
Great Jones Street
Great Jones Street 3.48 avg rating — 3,761 ratings
51.
City of God
City of God 3.40 avg rating — 2,866 ratings
52.
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence 4.03 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
53.
Tours of the Black Clock
Tours of the Black Clock really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 946 ratings
54.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
I Am Not Sidney Poitier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,792 ratings
55.
Everything is Illuminated
Everything is Illuminated 3.89 avg rating — 182,761 ratings
56.
J R
J R 4.32 avg rating — 3,681 ratings
57.
The Lime Twig
The Lime Twig 3.84 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
58.
The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project 3.57 avg rating — 6,812 ratings
59.
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Wittgenstein’s Mistress 3.92 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
60.
Women and Men
Women and Men 4.11 avg rating — 307 ratings
61.
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright 4.06 avg rating — 933 ratings
62.
The Counterlife
The Counterlife 3.92 avg rating — 5,446 ratings
63.
Mulligan Stew
Mulligan Stew 3.82 avg rating — 551 ratings
64.
Trance
Trance 3.48 avg rating — 196 ratings
65.
PopCo
PopCo 3.73 avg rating — 5,911 ratings
66.
John Henry Days
John Henry Days 3.63 avg rating — 3,370 ratings