The Greatest Postmodern Books of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
11246 Liberty Or Love! Robert Desnos 1929 French French
11248 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
11278 Space In Motion Juan Goytisolo 1987 Spanish Unknown
11278 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
11295 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
11304 Spam Finn Brunton 2013 American English
11309 The Immortals René Barjavel 1960 French French
11308 The Book Of Sins Chen Xiwo 2014 Chinese Chinese
11327 The Prince R. M. Koster 1972 Unknown English
11339 Kleinstadtnovelle Ronald M. Schernikau 1980 German German
11339 The Father Of A Murderer Alfred Andersch 1980 German German
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11366 La Patrie Empaillée Jacques Izoard Belgian French
11425 A Naked Singularity Sergio De La Pava 2008 American English
11434 Midwinter Day Bernadette Mayer 1982 American English
11438 Philadelphia fire John Edgar Wideman 1990 American English
11445 Various Miracles Carol Shields 1985 Canadian English
11540 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11547 Beautiful Losers Leonard Cohen 1966 Canadian English
11564 Hinze Kunze Roman Volker Braun 1985 German German
11569 The Swallower Swallowed Réjean Ducharme 1966 Canadian French
11582 Hitchhiking Gabriele Eckart 1986 German Unknown
11582 The Impenetrable Madam X Griselda Gambaro 1986 Argentinian Spanish
11582 The Mixquiahuala Letters Ana Castillo 1986 American English
11601 The Course Of The Heart M. John Harrison 1992 British English
11601 The Dissertation R. M. Koster 1975 Unknown English
11615 Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 American English
11616 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
11640 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11641 Damned If I Do Percival Everett 2013 American English
11644 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11652 Yo Yo Boing! Giannina Braschi 1998 American Spanish
11663 Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett 2021 Irish English
11663 The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010 American English
11663 Loon Lake E. L. Doctorow 1980 American English
11663 Philosophical Explanations Robert Nozick 1981 American English
11663 The Burning House Ann Beattie 1982 American English
11663 Bech Is Back John Updike 1982 American English
11663 Him With His Foot In His Mouth And Other Stories Saul Bellow 1984 American English
11663 Lives Of The Poets E. L. Doctorow 2001 American English
11663 Roger's Version John Updike 1986 American English
11663 Whites Norman Rush 1986 American English
11663 An Arrow In The Wall Andrey Voznesensky 1987 Russian Russian
11663 Staring At The Sun Julian Barnes 1986 British English
11663 Arabesques Anton Shammas 1986 Israeli Hebrew
11663 If The River Was Whiskey T. Coraghessan Boyle 1989 American English
11663 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11663 Your Duck Is My Duck Deborah Eisenberg 2018 American English
11813 On The Golden Porch Tatyana Tolstaya 1987 Russian Russian
11813 On The Passage Of A Few People Through A Rather Brief Moment In Time Peter Wollen 1989 British English
11846 Le Pavillon Des Enfants Fous Valérie Valère 1978 French French
11851 The Demon Hubert Selby 1976 American English
11871 Throat Sprockets Tim Lucas 1994 American English
11875 London Orbital Iain Sinclair 2002 British English
11890 Flow Chart John Ashbery 1991 American English
11934 This Young Monster Charlie Fox 2017 British English
12026 Biotope Orly Castel-Bloom 2022 Israeli Hebrew
12028 Gog Giovanni Papini 1931 Italian Italian
12042 Krieg Ohne Schlacht Heiner Müller 1992 German German
12047 Chimera John Barth 1972 American English
12048 Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces Georges Perec 1974 French French
12050 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12062 Cannonball Joseph McElroy 2013 American English
12063 O Tamanho Do Mundo António Lobo Antunes 2022 Portuguese Portuguese
12084 The Day I Began My Studies In Philosophy Margareta Ekström 1989 Swedish Unknown
12113 Hotel Lautréamont John Ashbery 1992 American English
12141 Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts 2009 British English
12226 Shades Of Grey Jasper Fforde 2009 British English
12259 Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest Karen Tei Yamashita 1990 American English
12326 Mazurka For Two Dead Men Camilo José Cela 1983 Spanish Spanish
12326 A Way In The World V. S. Naipaul 1994 American English
12326 Toward The End Of Time John Updike 1997 American English
12326 Headlong Michael Frayn 1999 British English
12483 EEG Daša Drndić 2016 Croatian Croatian
12496 The Mind's I Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett 1981 American English
12515 Eve's Tattoo Emily Prager 1991 American English
12515 Mute Phone Calls And Other Stories Ruth Aleksandrovna Zernova 1991 Russian Unknown
12515 The Revolution Of Little Girls Blanche McCrary Boyd 1991 American English
12656 Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R. Delany 1999 American English
12765 Father's On The Phone With The Flies Herta Müller 2012 German German
12866 The Extreme Self Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, Hans Ulrich Obrist 2021 Multiple English
12880 Birchwood John Banville 1973 Irish English
13226 A Haunting Beauty Charles Birkin 2000 British Unknown
13257 公墓 Mu Shiying 1933 Chinese Chinese
13258 You Shall Know Our Velocity Dave Eggers 2002 American English
13279 Wide Open Nicola Barker 1998 British English
13279 Even The Dogs Jon McGregor 2010 British English
13286 How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu 2010 American English
13288 Nocilla Dream Agustín Fernández Mallo 2006 Spanish Spanish
13304 Maze Of Blood Marly Youmans 2015 American English
13319 Brief Interviews With Hideous Men David Foster Wallace 1999 American English
13318 Records Of Orchard City Shi Tuo 1946 Chinese Chinese
13331 Wir Schlafen Nicht Kathrin Röggla 2004 Austrian German
13500 The Power Of Horses And Other Stories Elizabeth Cook 2021 British Unknown
13500 The Ship Of Fools Cristina Peri Rossi 2021 Uruguayan Spanish
13362 Eupalinos, Or The Architect Paul Valéry 1921 French French
13362 Infants Of The Spring Wallace Thurman 1932 American English
13362 Silence John Cage 1961 American English
13513 Indecision Benjamin Kunkel 2005 American English
13556 Part Of The Solution Ulrich Peltzer 2007 German German
13567 J Pod Douglas Coupland 2006 Canadian English
13578 One With Others C. D. Wright 2010 American English
13589 The Coup John Updike 1978 American English
13595 A Family Record Patrick Modiano 1977 French French
13716 The Headmaster Ritual Taylor Antrim 2007 American English
13738 Song Never to End Nelson I. Wu 1959 Unknown Unknown
13742 Darconville's Cat Alexander Theroux 1981 American English
13753 Tales Of Beatnik Glory Ed Saunders 1975 American English
13793 Vampires In The Lemon Grove Karen Russell 2013 American English
13800 Blumenberg Sibylle Lewitscharoff 2011 German German
13804 The Drunkard Liu Yichang 1963 Chinese Chinese
13806 Metropolitan Life Fran Lebowitz 1978 American English
13806 In Between The Sheets Ian McEwan 1978 British English
13818 The Worldwide Machine Paolo Volponi 1965 Italian Unknown
13886 Pygmy Chuck Palahniuk 2009 American English
13922 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
13941 A Tale For The Time Being Ruth Ozeki 2013 American English
14001 The Eye In The Pyramid Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1975 American English
14011 The Groves Of Academe Mary McCarthy 1952 American English
14041 Durcheinandertal Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1989 Swiss German