The Permanent Avant-Garde

1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,670 ratings
2.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,025 ratings
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Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,341 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,789 ratings
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The Complete Works of François Rabelais
The Complete Works of François Rabelais 4.24 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,328 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,323 ratings
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The Odyssey of Homer
The Odyssey of Homer
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,633 ratings
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The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,649 ratings
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Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection (New York Review Books Classics)
Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection (New York Review Books Classics) 4.08 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Pale King
The Pale King 3.97 avg rating — 19,430 ratings
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A Sentimental Journey
A Sentimental Journey 3.31 avg rating — 6,288 ratings
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At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds 3.85 avg rating — 14,061 ratings
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Endgame & Act Without Words
Endgame & Act Without Words 3.92 avg rating — 11,101 ratings
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Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,659 ratings
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The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare in Modern Type
The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare in Modern Type 4.78 avg rating — 272 ratings
17.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
18.
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works 3.45 avg rating — 754 ratings
19.
Quincas Borba
Quincas Borba 3.95 avg rating — 7,689 ratings
20.
The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters 4.46 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
21.
New Science
New Science 3.99 avg rating — 920 ratings
22.
New Testament: 1526 Tyndale Bible, Original Spelling Edition
New Testament: 1526 Tyndale Bible, Original Spelling Edition 4.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
23.
Sonnets
Sonnets 4.25 avg rating — 110,514 ratings
24.
The Writings of Marcel Duchamp
The Writings of Marcel Duchamp 4.30 avg rating — 283 ratings
25.
Oroonoko
Oroonoko 3.01 avg rating — 16,384 ratings
26.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 4.10 avg rating — 21,775 ratings
27.
The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman 3.97 avg rating — 22,246 ratings
28.
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
by: Mina Loy
4.16 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
29.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 4.04 avg rating — 92,115 ratings
30.
The Cantos
The Cantos 3.92 avg rating — 5,373 ratings
31.
ABC of Reading
ABC of Reading 3.91 avg rating — 1,894 ratings
32.
The Complete Works of John Wilmot
The Complete Works of John Wilmot 4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings
33.
Personæ: The Shorter Poems
Personæ: The Shorter Poems 4.10 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
34.
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound 4.05 avg rating — 559 ratings
35.
Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania
Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania 4.60 avg rating — 283 ratings
36.
Journal of Dreams
Journal of Dreams 3.67 avg rating — 89 ratings
37.
Life on Other Planets
Life on Other Planets 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
38.
Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell 3.98 avg rating — 636 ratings
39.
Afterlife: A Guided Tour to Heaven and Its Wonders
Afterlife: A Guided Tour to Heaven and Its Wonders 3.93 avg rating — 181 ratings
40.
The Last Novel
The Last Novel 4.16 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
41.
This Is Not a Novel
This Is Not a Novel 4.03 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
42.
Reader’s Block
Reader’s Block 4.07 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point 3.89 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
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Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Wittgenstein’s Mistress 3.92 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
45.
At War
At War 4.10 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Complete Novels
The Complete Novels 4.45 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Collected Plays and Teleplays
Collected Plays and Teleplays 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
48.
The Lime Twig
The Lime Twig 3.84 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Two Noble Kinsmen 3.40 avg rating — 2,531 ratings
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,732 ratings
51.
Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast 3.92 avg rating — 139 ratings
52.
King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy
King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets
An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets 4.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
54.
Poems and Fragments
Poems and Fragments
by: Sappho
4.17 avg rating — 10,971 ratings
55.
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others 4.01 avg rating — 2,700 ratings
56.
Noah: Founder of Civilizations (The Forgotten History Series)
Noah: Founder of Civilizations (The Forgotten History Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Perimedes the Blacke-Smith: A Golden Methode, How to Use the Minde in Pleasant and Profitable Exercise
Perimedes the Blacke-Smith: A Golden Methode, How to Use the Minde in Pleasant and Profitable Exercise 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction 3.25 avg rating — 85 ratings