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
17172 Season Of The Swamp Yuri Herrera 2022 Unknown English
17172 The Russian Window Dragan Velikić 2007 Unknown Serbian
17172 Border State Tõnu Õnnepalu 1993 Estonian Estonian
17172 The Cavemen Chronicle Mihkel Mutt 2012 Estonian Estonian
17172 Flesh Coloured Dominoes Zigmunds Skujiņš 1999 Latvian Latvian
17172 The Confusion Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
17172 Gould's Book Of Fish Richard Flanagan 2001 Australian English
17172 Ancient Light John Banville 2012 Irish English
17172 The Machinic Unconscious Félix Guattari 1979 French French
17172 Conversations With David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace 2012 American English
17052 The Visible And The Invisible Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1964 French French
17072 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
17172 Saltatempo Stefano Benni 2001 Italian Italian
17172 The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt 2022 Unknown English
17172 The Right To Oblivion Lowry Pressly 2024 Unknown English
17172 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
17172 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17172 Plato At The Googleplex Rebecca Goldstein 2014 American English
17172 The Salmon Of Doubt Douglas Adams 2002 British English
17172 The Art Of Fiction David Lodge 1992 British English
17172 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
17172 Great Expectations Kathy Acker 1989 American English
17172 Diary Of A Void Emi Yagi 2020 Japanese Japanese
17172 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17172 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17172 Mayakovsky's Revolver Matthew Dickman 2012 American English
17172 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
17172 Turtle Diary Russell Hoban 1975 British English
17172 The Art Of Fiction John Gardner 1983 American English
16962 Trout Fishing In America / The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
17172 Sombrero Fallout Richard Brautigan 1976 American English
17172 Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1995 Italian Italian
17172 The Book Of Sand And Shakespeare's Memory Jorge Luis Borges 1977 Argentinian Spanish
17172 Pulp Charles Bukowski 1994 American English
17172 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
17172 Cyclonopedia Reza Negarestani 2008 Unknown English
17172 St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Karen Russell 2024 American English
17172 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook Matt Dinniman 2020 Unknown English
17172 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
17172 The Sea Came In At Midnight Steve Erickson 1999 American English
17172 O Tempo Dos Simulacros Philip K. Dick American Unknown
17172 A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe Fernando Pessoa 1998 Portuguese Portuguese
17172 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
17172 Day Michael Cunningham American Unknown
17172 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17172 Q Luther Blissett 1999 Italian Italian
17172 The Seducer Jan Kjærstad 1993 Norwegian Norwegian
17172 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17172 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
17172 Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson 2015 British English
17172 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
17172 Sphinx Anne Garréta 1986 French French
17172 The First Bad Man Miranda July 2015 American English
17172 Europe In Autumn Dave Hutchinson 2014 British English
17172 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
17172 Our Ecstatic Days Steve Erickson 2005 American English
17172 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
17172 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17172 Entered From The Sun George Garrett 1990 American English
17172 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
17172 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17172 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
17172 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
16980 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
17172 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17172 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17172 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
17172 The Weight Of Things Marianne Fritz 1978 Austrian German
17172 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17172 Essays Critical And Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1993 French French
17172 I, The Supreme Augusto Roa Bastos 1974 Paraguayan Spanish
17172 Insignificance Terry Johnson 1982 British English
17172 Stage Of Fools Charles Brady Unknown English
17172 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17172 The Whales Of Lake Tanganyika Lennart Hagerfors 1992 Swedish Swedish
17172 Segaki David Stacton 1958 American English
17172 Dagny, Or A Love Feast Zurab Karumidze 2014 Georgian English
17172 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Nature Book Tom Comitta 2023 Unknown English
17172 Obra Maestra Juan Tallón 2022 Spanish Spanish
17172 Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Lights Ben Lerner 2023 American Unknown
17172 About Ed Robert Gluck 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild Mathias Énard 2023 French French
17172 Brooklyn Crime Novel Jonathan Lethem 2023 American English
17172 The Love Of Singular Men Victor Heringer 2023 Brazilian Portuguese
17172 Naked In The Rideshare Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold 2023 Unknown Unknown
17172 The Long Form Kate Briggs 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Dimensions Of A Cave Greg Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17172 How To Be Multiple Helena de Bres 2023 Unknown Unknown
17172 Monica Daniel Clowes 2023 American English
17172 Artificial Amy Kurzweil 2023 Unknown English
17172 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17172 This Won’t Help Eli Grober 2023 Unknown English
17172 Reproduction Louisa Hall 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Glint Of Light Clarence Major 2023 Unknown Unknown
17172 The Suicide Museum Ariel Dorfman 2023 Chilean English
17172 The Details Ia Genberg 2023 Unknown Swedish
17172 Some Unfinished Chaos Arthur Krystal 2023 Unknown Unknown
17172 All Souls Saskia Hamilton 2023 Unknown English
17172 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17172 Hangman Maya Binyam 2023 Unknown English
17172 Disruptions Steven Millhauser 2023 American Unknown
17172 Information Desk Robyn Schiff 2023 Unknown English
17172 You, Bleeding Childhood Michele Mari 2023 Italian Italian
17172 Dykette Jenny Fran Davis 2023 Unknown English
17172 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17172 Lament For Julia Susan Taubes 2023 Unknown English
17172 Owlish Dorothy Tse 2023 Unknown Chinese
17172 Hit Parade Of Tears Izumi Suzuki 2023 Japanese Japanese
17172 Skip To The Fun Parts Dana Jeri Maier 2023 Unknown English
17172 Raving McKenzie Wark 2023 Unknown English
17172 Users Colin Winnette 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Nature Book Tom Comitta 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Written World And The Unwritten World Italo Calvino 2023 Italian Italian
17172 Evil Flowers Gunnhild Øyehaug 2023 Norwegian Norwegian
17172 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Sense Of Wonder Matthew Salesses 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Guest Lecture Martin Riker 2023 Unknown English
17172 I Do Everything I’m Told Megan Fernandes 2023 Unknown English