The Greatest Western Experimental 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17125 | Indian Nocturne | Antonio Tabucchi | 1984 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17125 | Why Fish Don’t Exist | Lulu Miller | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Solo | Rana Dasgupta | 2009 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | Robert Shea | 1975 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Choke | Chuck Palahniuk | 2001 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Still Life With Woodpecker | Tom Robbins | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Diary | Chuck Palahniuk | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Self Portrait In A Convex Mirror | John Ashbery | 1975 | American | English | |
| 17125 | 'I' | Wolfgang Hilbig | 1993 | German | German | |
| 17125 | Apostoloff | Sibylle Lewitscharoff | 2009 | German | German | |
| 17125 | Queer | William S. Burroughs | 1985 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Sequel | Jean Hanff Korelitz | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Hppy | Nicola Barker | 2017 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions | Larry Mitchell | 1977 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Our Wives Under The Sea | Julia Armfield | 2022 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Weird And The Eerie | Mark Fisher | 2016 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Fox 8 | George Saunders | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17125 | On Being Blue | William H. Gass | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17125 | My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 | Emil Ferris | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17125 | My Lesbian Novel | Renee Gladman | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Exit Opera | Kim Addonizio | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Matter With Things | Iain McGilchrist | 2021 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Whoever You Are, Honey | Olivia Gatwood | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Children Of Paradise | Camilla Grudova | 2022 | Canadian | English | |
| 17125 | Karla's Choice | Nick Harkaway | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17125 | May Our Joy Endure | Kevin Lambert | 2022 | Canadian | French | |
| 17125 | Of Walking In Ice | Werner Herzog | 1978 | German | German | |
| 17125 | Sarah Kane | Sarah Kane | 2001 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Autoportrait | Édouard Levé | 2005 | French | French | |
| 17125 | Paradise Rot | Jenny Hval | 2009 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17125 | Room To Dream | David Lynch | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17087 | Sexus | Henry Miller | 1949 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Forty Stories | Donald Barthelme | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Broom Of The System | David Foster Wallace | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Women And Men | Joseph McElroy | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Storm Pegs | Jen Hadfield | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Harrow | Joy Williams | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Diwan On The Prince Of Emgion | Gunnar Ekelöf | 1965 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 17125 | Sju Ord På Tunnelbanan | Karl Vennberg | 1971 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 17125 | Uden Mål – Og Med | Villy Sørensen | 1974 | Danish | Danish | |
| 17125 | After The Sun | Jonas Eika | 2018 | Danish | Danish | |
| 17125 | Elegy On Toy Piano | Dean Young | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Confusion | Neal Stephenson | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Machinic Unconscious | Félix Guattari | 1979 | French | French | |
| 17125 | Conversations With David Foster Wallace | David Foster Wallace | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Hike | Drew Magary | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Fanged Noumena | Nick Land | 2011 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Great Expectations | Kathy Acker | 1989 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Sombrero Fallout | Richard Brautigan | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories | Italo Calvino | 1995 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17125 | Morgon Og Kveld | Jon Fosse | 2000 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17125 | The Ecliptic | Benjamin Wood | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Threshold | Rob Doyle | 2020 | Irish | English | |
| 17125 | Sphinx | Anne Garréta | 1986 | French | French | |
| 17125 | The Wake | Paul Kingsnorth | 2014 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Our Ecstatic Days | Steve Erickson | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17125 | An Elemental Thing | Eliot Weinberger | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Essays Critical And Clinical | Gilles Deleuze | 1993 | French | French | |
| 17125 | A Shining | Jon Fosse | 2023 | Norwegian | Unknown | |
| 17125 | Paris Notebooks | Mavis Gallant | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17125 | Shy | Max Porter | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Temporary | Hilary Leichter | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17125 | T. Singer | Dag Solstad | 1999 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17125 | God's Grace | Bernard Malamud | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again | M. John Harrison | 2020 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Homestuck | Andrew Hussie | 2009 | American | English | |
| 16974 | The Other Side | Alfred Kubin | 1909 | Austrian | English | |
| 17125 | A "Working Life" | Eileen Myles | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Revelation Freshly Erupting | Nelly Sachs | German | German | ||
| 17125 | Talking It Over | Julian Barnes | 1991 | British | English | |
| 17007 | The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions | Larry Mitchell | 1977 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Ratner's Star | Don DeLillo | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17125 | I Must Be Living Twice | Eileen Myles | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Palmares | Gayl Jones | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Schizoanalytic Cartographies | Félix Guattari | 1989 | French | French |