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
17120 Border State Tõnu Õnnepalu 1993 Estonian Estonian
17120 The Cavemen Chronicle Mihkel Mutt 2012 Estonian Estonian
17120 Flesh Coloured Dominoes Zigmunds Skujiņš 1999 Latvian Latvian
17120 The Confusion Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
17120 Gould's Book Of Fish Richard Flanagan 2001 Australian English
17120 Ancient Light John Banville 2012 Irish English
17120 The Machinic Unconscious Félix Guattari 1979 French French
17120 Conversations With David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace 2012 American English
16978 The Visible And The Invisible Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1964 French French
17030 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
17120 Saltatempo Stefano Benni 2001 Italian Italian
17120 The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt 2022 Unknown English
17120 The Right To Oblivion Lowry Pressly 2024 Unknown English
17120 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
17120 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17120 Plato At The Googleplex Rebecca Goldstein 2014 American English
17120 The Salmon Of Doubt Douglas Adams 2002 British English
17120 The Art Of Fiction David Lodge 1992 British English
17120 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
17120 Great Expectations Kathy Acker 1989 American English
17120 Diary Of A Void Emi Yagi 2020 Japanese Japanese
17120 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17120 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17120 Mayakovsky's Revolver Matthew Dickman 2012 American English
17120 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
17120 Turtle Diary Russell Hoban 1975 British English
17120 The Art Of Fiction John Gardner 1983 American English
16919 Trout Fishing In America / The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
17120 Sombrero Fallout Richard Brautigan 1976 American English
17120 Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1995 Italian Italian
17120 The Book Of Sand And Shakespeare's Memory Jorge Luis Borges 1977 Argentinian Spanish
17120 Pulp Charles Bukowski 1994 American English
17120 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
17120 Cyclonopedia Reza Negarestani 2008 Unknown English
17120 St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Karen Russell 2024 American English
17120 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook Matt Dinniman 2020 Unknown English
17120 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
17120 The Sea Came In At Midnight Steve Erickson 1999 American English
17120 O Tempo Dos Simulacros Philip K. Dick American Unknown
17120 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
17120 Day Michael Cunningham American Unknown
17120 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17120 Q Luther Blissett 1999 Italian Italian
17120 The Seducer Jan Kjærstad 1993 Norwegian Norwegian
17120 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17120 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
17120 Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson 2015 British English
17120 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
17120 Sphinx Anne Garréta 1986 French French
17120 The First Bad Man Miranda July 2015 American English
17120 Europe In Autumn Dave Hutchinson 2014 British English
17120 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
17120 Our Ecstatic Days Steve Erickson 2005 American English
17120 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
17120 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17120 Entered From The Sun George Garrett 1990 American English
17120 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
17120 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17120 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
17120 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
16953 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
17120 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17120 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17120 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
17120 The Weight Of Things Marianne Fritz 1978 Austrian German
17120 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17120 Essays Critical And Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1993 French French
17120 I, The Supreme Augusto Roa Bastos 1974 Paraguayan Spanish
17120 Insignificance Terry Johnson 1982 British English
17120 Stage Of Fools Charles Brady Unknown English
17120 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17120 The Whales Of Lake Tanganyika Lennart Hagerfors 1992 Swedish Swedish
17120 Segaki David Stacton 1958 American English
17120 Dagny, Or A Love Feast Zurab Karumidze 2014 Georgian English
17120 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Nature Book Tom Comitta 2023 Unknown English
17120 Obra Maestra Juan Tallón 2022 Spanish Spanish
17120 Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Lights Ben Lerner 2023 American Unknown
17120 About Ed Robert Gluck 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild Mathias Énard 2023 French French
17120 Brooklyn Crime Novel Jonathan Lethem 2023 American English
17120 The Love Of Singular Men Victor Heringer 2023 Brazilian Portuguese
17120 Naked In The Rideshare Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 The Long Form Kate Briggs 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Dimensions Of A Cave Greg Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17120 How To Be Multiple Helena de Bres 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 Monica Daniel Clowes 2023 American English
17120 Artificial Amy Kurzweil 2023 Unknown English
17120 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17120 This Won’t Help Eli Grober 2023 Unknown English
17120 Reproduction Louisa Hall 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Glint Of Light Clarence Major 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 The Suicide Museum Ariel Dorfman 2023 Chilean English
17120 The Details Ia Genberg 2023 Unknown Swedish
17120 Some Unfinished Chaos Arthur Krystal 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 All Souls Saskia Hamilton 2023 Unknown English
17120 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17120 Hangman Maya Binyam 2023 Unknown English
17120 Disruptions Steven Millhauser 2023 American Unknown
17120 Information Desk Robyn Schiff 2023 Unknown English
17120 You, Bleeding Childhood Michele Mari 2023 Italian Italian
17120 Dykette Jenny Fran Davis 2023 Unknown English
17120 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17120 Lament For Julia Susan Taubes 2023 Unknown English
17120 Owlish Dorothy Tse 2023 Unknown Chinese
17120 Hit Parade Of Tears Izumi Suzuki 2023 Japanese Japanese
17120 Skip To The Fun Parts Dana Jeri Maier 2023 Unknown English
17120 Raving McKenzie Wark 2023 Unknown English
17120 Users Colin Winnette 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Nature Book Tom Comitta 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Written World And The Unwritten World Italo Calvino 2023 Italian Italian
17120 Evil Flowers Gunnhild Øyehaug 2023 Norwegian Norwegian
17120 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Sense Of Wonder Matthew Salesses 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Guest Lecture Martin Riker 2023 Unknown English
17120 I Do Everything I’m Told Megan Fernandes 2023 Unknown English
17120 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17120 Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Molly McGhee 2023 Unknown English
17120 Version Control Dexter Palmer 2016 American English