Experimental

Experimental literature refers to written work—usually fiction or poetry—that emphasizes innovation, most especially in technique.

House of Leaves
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
The Craziest Book Ever Written
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Lincoln in the Bardo
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Invisible Cities
Pale Fire
Ulysses
Hopscotch
The Waves
Cloud Atlas
Slaughterhouse-Five
Gravity’s Rainbow
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
White Noise by Don DeLilloThere Is No Antimemetics Division by qntmPersephone in the Late Anthropocene by Megan GrumblingHigh-Rise by J.G. BallardThe Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
Existential Horror
23 books — 2 voters
Moby-Dick; or, the Whale by Herman MelvilleI, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Books in 'Bernard-jou Iwaku'
89 books — 2 voters

copy/body by Maryan Nagy CaptanMaris McLamoureary's Dictionnaire Infernal by Chris McCrearyDaughter-Seed by Arielle Tipafutur.txt by Faye Chevalier
Empty Set Press
4 books — 1 voter
Bluets by Maggie NelsonCitizen by Claudia RankineDon’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia RankineAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonThe Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Lyric Essay and Hybrid Genre
59 books — 25 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,106 books — 1,734 voters
Girlbeast by Cecilie LindBook of Mutter by Kate ZambrenoGrimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora AkhtarDialogue with a Somnambulist by Chloe AridjisPleasure Beach by Helen  Palmer
Prototype Publishing
11 books — 1 voter

Blake Butler
Worse than knowing I needed out, I didn't know what I needed back into. Even when I could feel there was something else beyond the edges of any color in the street or window where no one waited even to just totally ignore me, I couldn't recognize it enough to know how to want it harder. Along each street it was as if I were waiting for some hole to swallow my face. Each moment it didn't made the going into the next step that much less worth doing. This is what life had always felt like. In my mi ...more
Blake Butler, Three Hundred Million

Benjamin Myers
Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worlds.
Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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