A Postmodernist "Canon"

1.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,905 ratings
2.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,673 ratings
3.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,759 ratings
4.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,467 ratings
5.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating — 33,254 ratings
6.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 4.02 avg rating — 108,228 ratings
7.
White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,858 ratings
8.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,901 ratings
9.
Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon 4.13 avg rating — 12,153 ratings
10.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,978 ratings
11.
Cat’s Cradle
Cat’s Cradle 4.15 avg rating — 428,439 ratings
12.
The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman 3.97 avg rating — 22,252 ratings
13.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,400 ratings
14.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,192 ratings
15.
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities 4.10 avg rating — 93,550 ratings
16.
Ficciones
Ficciones 4.40 avg rating — 75,870 ratings
17.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,059 ratings
18.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 4.14 avg rating — 306,627 ratings
19.
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 46,751 ratings
20.
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable 4.28 avg rating — 9,326 ratings
21.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,310 ratings
22.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,560 ratings
23.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,904 ratings
24.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,166 ratings
24.
J R
J R 4.32 avg rating — 3,682 ratings
26.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,306 ratings
27.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating — 262,754 ratings
28.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,714 ratings
29.
Underworld
Underworld 3.95 avg rating — 33,132 ratings
30.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,708 ratings
31.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,620 ratings
32.
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts 3.84 avg rating — 217,132 ratings
33.
Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,679 ratings
34.
POENA DAMNI: THE TRILOGY (3-Book Box Set)
POENA DAMNI: THE TRILOGY (3-Book Box Set) 4.68 avg rating — 90 ratings
35.
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions 4.06 avg rating — 275,092 ratings
36.
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 3.89 avg rating — 354,118 ratings
37.
Fight Club
Fight Club 4.18 avg rating — 629,499 ratings
38.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,703 ratings
39.
THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3)
THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3) 4.60 avg rating — 161 ratings
40.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,671 ratings
41.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,515 ratings
42.
Ubik
Ubik 4.11 avg rating — 118,757 ratings
43.
Hopscotch
Hopscotch 4.20 avg rating — 47,323 ratings
44.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,721 ratings
45.
Lost in the Funhouse
Lost in the Funhouse 3.68 avg rating — 6,618 ratings
46.
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3) 3.86 avg rating — 84,279 ratings
47.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,783 ratings
48.
Watchmen
Watchmen 4.39 avg rating — 585,840 ratings
49.
Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,883 ratings
50.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,342 ratings
51.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
52.
Mythologies
Mythologies 4.08 avg rating — 16,795 ratings
53.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,177 ratings
54.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The French Lieutenant’s Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,873 ratings
55.
Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics 4.15 avg rating — 20,425 ratings
56.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,993 ratings
57.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4.09 avg rating — 496,053 ratings
58.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,748 ratings
59.
At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds 3.85 avg rating — 14,062 ratings
60.
The Sirens of Titan
The Sirens of Titan 4.15 avg rating — 153,696 ratings
61.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,640 ratings
62.
Snow White
Snow White 3.48 avg rating — 3,017 ratings
63.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 3.97 avg rating — 431,623 ratings
64.
Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,970 ratings
65.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 4.01 avg rating — 42,329 ratings
66.
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,447 ratings
67.
Mother Night
Mother Night 4.23 avg rating — 102,438 ratings
68.
Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual 4.18 avg rating — 9,837 ratings
69.
Exercises in Style
Exercises in Style 4.05 avg rating — 12,560 ratings
70.
Ada
Ada 4.12 avg rating — 12,652 ratings
71.
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Sot-Weed Factor 4.12 avg rating — 7,626 ratings
72.
The Invention of Morel
The Invention of Morel 3.98 avg rating — 31,651 ratings
73.
The Tunnel
The Tunnel 4.05 avg rating — 1,926 ratings
74.
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,967 ratings
75.
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge 3.81 avg rating — 5,740 ratings
76.
Chimera
Chimera 3.71 avg rating — 2,244 ratings
77.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,404 ratings
78.
The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,705 ratings
79.
The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives 4.17 avg rating — 50,147 ratings
80.
Flaubert's Parrot
Flaubert's Parrot 3.65 avg rating — 16,255 ratings
81.
Crash
Crash 3.59 avg rating — 28,427 ratings
82.
A Frolic of His Own
A Frolic of His Own 3.89 avg rating — 1,725 ratings
83.
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis 3.26 avg rating — 18,392 ratings
84.
Z213: EXIT
Z213: EXIT 4.30 avg rating — 232 ratings
85.
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
86.
The Baron in the Trees
The Baron in the Trees 4.02 avg rating — 51,069 ratings
87.
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell 3.91 avg rating — 73,665 ratings
88.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,960 ratings
89.
Time's Arrow
Time's Arrow 3.76 avg rating — 17,623 ratings
90.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 552,036 ratings
91.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 78,164 ratings
92.
City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)
City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 23,041 ratings
93.
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman 3.58 avg rating — 252,789 ratings
94.
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory 4.10 avg rating — 15,974 ratings
95.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said 3.91 avg rating — 44,742 ratings
95.
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 4.18 avg rating — 52,985 ratings
97.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,947 ratings
97.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa 4.10 avg rating — 4,048 ratings
99.
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Wittgenstein's Mistress 3.92 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
100.
Z213: EXIT (Poena Damni, #1)
Z213: EXIT (Poena Damni, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 232 ratings
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