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
7944 Lover Bertha Harris 1976 American English
7966 Magical Realist Fiction David Young 1984 Unknown Unknown
7967 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7977 Trust Exercise Susan Choi 2019 American English
8001 Fragmentos De Un Libro Futuro José Ángel Valente 2000 Spanish Spanish
8030 Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007 American English
8054 The Urth Of The New Sun Gene Wolfe 1987 American English
8062 Santo Oficio De La Memoria Mempo Giardinelli 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8072 Taipei Tao Lin 2013 American English
8074 Chronic City Jonathan Lethem 2009 American English
8075 Coming And Going Men Paul Fleischman 1985 American English
8090 Approaching The End Gerard Reve 1993 Dutch Dutch
8106 O Miki Liukkonen 2017 Finnish Finnish
8144 Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock 1992 British English
8144 Vor Uns Die Sintflut Urs Widmer 1998 Swiss German
8176 Saints And Strangers Angela Carter 1985 British English
8177 Cuando Ya No Importe Juan Carlos Onetti 1993 Uruguayan Spanish
8178 Three Novels Samuel Beckett 1955 Irish French
8192 Temblor Rosa Montero 1990 Spanish Spanish
8195 Ghosts César Aira 1990 Argentinian Spanish
8197 Against The Inquisition Marco Aguinis 1991 Argentine Spanish
8203 The Day I Wasn't There Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
8215 Stories In An Almost Classical Mode Harold Brodkey 1989 American English
8220 Rok Perel Zuzana Brabcová 2000 Czech Czech
8262 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8286 Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon 2002 Bosnian English
8281 The Wind Claude Simon 1957 French French
8289 The Interpretation Of Cultures Clifford Geertz 1973 American English
8293 Crónica De Un Iniciado Abelardo Castillo 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8294 Die Gesellschaft Der Gesellschaft Niklas Luhmann 1999 German German
8298 Alec: The Years Have Pants Eddie Campbell 2008 British English
8302 Lizard Tails Juan Marsé 2004 Spanish Spanish
8315 Vigilia Del Almirante Augusto Roa Bastos 1992 Paraguayan Spanish
8337 The Grass Claude Simon 1958 French French
8360 The Literary Conference César Aira 1997 Argentinian Spanish
8387 Ella Cantaba Boleros Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1992 Cuban Spanish
8412 Lost In A Good Book Jasper Fforde 2002 British English
8446 Identity Milan Kundera 1998 Czech French
8446 The Natashas Yelena Moskovich 2016 Russian English
8446 The Harvest Of Chronos Mojca Kumerdej 2016 Slovenian Slovenian
8446 The Interim Wolfgang Hilbig 2000 German German
8461 Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me Richard Fariña 1966 American English
8462 Headshot Rita Bullwinkel 2024 Unknown English
8474 Three Novels Witold Gombrowicz 1960 Polish Polish
8474 The Patrick Melrose Novels Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
8474 Textermination Christine Brooke-Rose 1992 British English
8498 Transcritique Kojin Karatani 2003 Japanese Japanese
8515 Bones Of The Moon Jonathan Carroll 1987 American English
8536 L'amour, Roman Camille Laurens 2003 French French
8555 Igur Neblí Miquel de Palol 1994 Spanish Unknown
8556 Our Evenings Alan Hollinghurst 2024 Unknown English
8558 Word And Object Willard Van Orman Quine 1960 American English
8608 Fact, Fiction, And Forecast Nelson Goodman 1955 American English
8633 Vanishing Point David Markson 2004 American English
8640 Somersault Kenzaburō Ōe 1999 Japanese Japanese
8654 Three Days With My Mother François Weyergans 2005 Belgian French
8676 Hallucinated City Mario de Andrade 1922 Brazilian Portuguese
8677 Marabou Stork Nightmares Irvine Welsh 1995 British English
8687 Miss Peabody’s Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley 1983 Australian English
8688 The Poetic Fantastic Patrick D. Murphy 1989 American English
8691 The One Before Juan José Saer 2015 Argentinian Spanish
8698 It's Me, Eddie Eduard Limonov 1978 Russian Russian
8703 Millennium People J. G. Ballard 2003 British English
8707 The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley Hector Viel Temperley
 2011 Argentinian Spanish
8719 La Cuadratura Del Círculo Álvaro Pombo 1995 Spanish Spanish
8730 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
8731 The History of Silence Pedro Zarraluki 1995 Spanish Spanish
8741 The Dalkey Archive Flann O'Brien 1964 Irish English
8741 Second Skin John Hawkes 1964 American English
8757 Breakfast At Midnight Louis Armand 2012 Unknown English
8763 Rats And Gargoyles Mary Gentle 1990 British English
8791 The Diaries Of Emilio Renzi Ricardo Piglia 2015 Argentinian Spanish
8829 The Baphomet Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8850 Philosophy of the Tourist Hiroki Azuma 2017 Japanese Unknown
8854 The Emperor's New Mind Roger Penrose 1989 British English
8855 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
8882 Philosophy And The Mirror Of Nature Richard Rorty 1979 American English
8891 Cendrillon Éric Reinhardt 2007 French French
8902 The Art Of Flight Sergio Pitol 1997 Mexican Spanish
8899 Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It Geoff Dyer 2003 British English
8949 Os Cavalinhos De Platiplanto José J. Veiga 1959 Brazilian Portuguese
8964 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis 1994 American English
8974 The Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord 1967 French French
8977 Mantra Rodrigo Fresán 2001 Argentinian Spanish
8997 Delirious Damien Wilkins 2012 New Zealand English
9011 T Zero Italo Calvino 1967 Italian Italian
9011 A Change Of Skin Carlos Fuentes 1967 Mexican Spanish
9024 Dark Back Of Time Javier Marias 1998 Spanish Spanish
9024 Memories Of My Father Watching Tv Curtis White 1998 American English
9038 Yama Loka Terminus Léo Henry, Jacques Mucchielli 2008 French French
9042 Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here Jonathan Blitzer 2024 Unknown English
9076 Autumn Ali Smith 2016 British English
9081 Event Factory Renee Gladman 2010 American English
9114 Cosmopolis Don DeLillo 2003 American English
9130 Génie Divin Guillaume Dustan 2001 French French
9141 The Consequences Niña Weijers 2014 Dutch Dutch
9150 Knowledge And Human Interests Jürgen Habermas 1968 German German
9173 Memories Of The Body Lisa Tuttle 1992 American English
9173 MetaHorror Dennis Etchison 1992 American English
9184 Red Clocks Leni Zumas 2018 American English
9224 The Rachel Papers Martin Amis 1973 British English
9226 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
9227 Burning Your Boats Angela Carter 1995 British English
9228 Han Hinkon Makoto Yuasa 2008 Japanese Unknown
9229 Poems Jorge Luis Borges 2010 Argentinian Spanish
9264 Nothing to be Frightened Of Julian Barnes 2008 British English
9264 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9288 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Tom Robbins 1976 American English
9295 Project For A Revolution In New York Alain Robbe-Grillet 1970 French French
9295 The Double Dream Of Spring John Ashbery 1970 American English
9317 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
9349 Ellipse Of Uncertainty Lance Olsen 1993 American English
9590 The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1855 British English
9592 Blue Lard Vladimir Sorokin 1999 Russian Russian
9598 The Naked Eye Yoko Tawada 2004 Multiple German
9607 Meteor In The Madhouse Leon Forrest 2001 American English
9613 Galáxias Haroldo De Campos 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
9621 The Carnival Of Destruction Brian Stableford 1994 British English
9644 Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila 2014 Congolese French
9717 Eros Is More Juan Antonio González Iglesias 2018 Spanish Spanish