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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17120 | Time And Narrative (Time & Narrative) | Paul Ricœur | 1983 | French | French | |
| 17120 | Leica Format | Daša Drndić | 2003 | Croatian | Croatian | |
| 17120 | Minor Feelings | Cathy Park Hong | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Please Don’t Call Me Human | Wang Shuo | 1991 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17120 | Leave Me Alone | Murong Xuecun | 2002 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17120 | The Fat Years | Chan Koonchung | 2009 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17120 | Pink Slime | Fernanda Trías | 2024 | Uruguayan | Spanish | |
| 17120 | Dr. Adder | K. W. Jeter | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17059 | Pierre Or The Ambiguities | Herman Melville | 1852 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild | Mathias Enard | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | Bluebeard | Kurt Vonnegut | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Ignored | Bentley Little | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Glamorama | Bret Easton Ellis | 1998 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Shockwave Rider | John Brunner | 1975 | British | English | |
| 17120 | 20th Century Ghosts | Joe Hill | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Just An Ordinary Day | Shirley Jackson | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Silk | Caitlín R. Kiernan | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Signorina Rosina | Antonio Pizzuto | 1956 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17120 | Nuovo Commento | Giorgio Manganelli | 1969 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17120 | Hear The Wind Sing And Pinball 1973 | 村上春樹 | 1979 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17120 | Vilnius Poker | Ričardas Gavelis | 1989 | Lithuanian | Lithuanian | |
| 17120 | Solo | Rana Dasgupta | 2009 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | Robert Shea | 1975 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Kalki | Gore Vidal | 1978 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Choke | Chuck Palahniuk | 2001 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Still Life With Woodpecker | Tom Robbins | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Diary | Chuck Palahniuk | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Hocus Pocus | Kurt Vonnegut | 1990 | American | English | |
| 16988 | Quiet Days In Clichy And The World Of Sex | Henry Miller | 1956 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Self Portrait In A Convex Mirror | John Ashbery | 1975 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Queer | William S. Burroughs | 1985 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Anita De Monte Laughs Last | Xóchitl González | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Hppy | Nicola Barker | 2017 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Coup De Grâce | Sofia Ajram | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | House Of Bone And Rain | Gabino Iglesias | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | On Being Blue | William H. Gass | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Godwin | Joseph O'Neill | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 | Emil Ferris | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Set My Heart On Fire | Izumi Suzuki | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | My Lesbian Novel | Renee Gladman | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Blurry | Dash Shaw | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Attachments | Lucas Mann | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Waiting For The Fear | Oğuz Atay | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | States Of Emergency | Chris Knapp | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Some Strange Music Draws Me In | Griffin Hansbury | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Lesser Ruins | Mark Haber | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Ghost Pains | Jessi Jesewska Stevens | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | American Woman | Katie Rogers | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Banal Nightmare | Halle Butler | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Gretel And The Great War | Adam Erlich Sachs | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | I Was Working | Ariel Yelen | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Navola | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Suggested In The Stars | Yoko Tawada | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Tokyo These Days | Taiyō Matsumoto | 2024 | Japanese | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Stories Are Weapons | Annalee Newitz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The City In Glass | Nghi Vo | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Stars Too Fondly | Emily Hamilton | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Glutton | A. K. Blakemore | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Art Monster | Marin Kosut | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Final Cut | Charles Burns | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Between The Night And Its Music | A.B. Spellman | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Book Makers | Adam Smyth | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Slaveroad | John Edgar Wideman | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Drypoint | Jamie McKendrick | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Aerth | Deborah Tomkins | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Concerning The Future Of Souls | Joy Williams | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Freaks Out! | Luke Haines | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Ellipses | Vanessa Lawrence | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Quichotte | Salman Rushdie | 2019 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Cracked Mirror | Chris Brookmyre | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Excitable Boy | Dominic Gordon | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Elixir | Kassa Kappabova | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Karla's Choice | Nick Harkaway | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Gunflower | Laura Jean McKay | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Because I Am Not Myself, You See | Ariane Beetson | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Breakdown | Cathy Sweeney | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Naked Portrait | Rose Boyt | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Firelight | John Morrissey | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Danger Baby | Ender Baskan | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Kubrick | Nathan Abrams and Robert Kolker | 2020 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | May Our Joy Endure | Kevin Lambert | 2022 | Canadian | French | |
| 17120 | Camp Zero | Michelle Min Sterling | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The City And Its Uncertain Walls | Haruki Murakami | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17120 | The Book Of Illusions | Paul Auster | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Secret Public | Jon Savage | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Forty Stories | Donald Barthelme | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Broom Of The System | David Foster Wallace | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Women And Men | Joseph McElroy | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Your Own Dark Shadow | Jack Fennell | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Quickly, While They Still Have Horses | Jan Carson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Hereafter | Vona Groarke | 2022 | Irish | English | |
| 17120 | What | John Cooper Clarke | 2012 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Herscht 07769 | László Krasznahorkai | 2024 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 17120 | Animals | Eva Menasse | 2017 | Austrian | German | |
| 17120 | Children In Tactical Gear | Peter Mishler | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Volte Face | Dominique Hecq | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Great American Novel | Philip Roth | 1973 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Green Grass, Running Water | Thomas King | 1993 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | How To Make Love To A Negro Without Getting Tired | Dany Laferriere | 1989 | Canadian | French | |
| 17120 | Kalpa Imperial | Angélica Gorodischer | 1983 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 17120 | Marshall Mcluhan Unbound | Marshall McLuhan | 2005 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | Georges Perec | David Bellos | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | White Tears | Hari Kunzru | 2017 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Swann | Carol Shields | 1987 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | Wild Massive | Scotto Moore | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Som Paula | Ondrej Štefánik | 2012 | Slovak | Slovak | |
| 17120 | Tantalópolis | Peter Macsovszky | 2015 | Slovak | Slovak | |
| 17120 | In The Name Of The Father | Balla | 2011 | Slovak | English | |
| 17120 | Telegram | Stanislav Rakús | 2009 | Slovak | Slovak | |
| 17120 | Ostrovy Nepamäti | Alta Vášová | 2008 | Slovak | Slovak | |
| 17120 | Čarovný Papagáj A Iné Gýče | Pavel Vilikovský | 2005 | Slovak | Slovak | |
| 17120 | What Is All This? | Stephen Dixon | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Elegy On Toy Piano | Dean Young | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Loop | Brenda Lozano | 2014 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17120 | Season Of The Swamp | Yuri Herrera | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Russian Window | Dragan Velikić | 2007 | Unknown | Serbian |