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...but the Great Gatsby doesn't use stream of consciousness...at least not extensively. I can only think of one instance in the whole novel that uses it, and that's really only mental imagery.

Terrible list, three Virginia Woolf books at the top... and The Great Gatsby? That's not even stream-of-consciousness people!

Of course Virginia Woolf uses stream of consciousness.

Of course she does, I probably wasn't clear enough. What I meant is that it's absurd that three Virginia Woolf books should be at the top (which frankly shows a predominantly female audience voting here on Goodreads) instead of some Woolf interspersed between other authors like Faulkner and Joyce, who I personally feel are better than Woolf. The Sound and the Fury is THE greatest stream-of-consciousness anyway.

I was ready to say I'd jumped the gun, but man - why a predominantly female audience? Woolf trumps both Joyce and Faulkner by a damn sight, and I'm a guy. I don't understand.

Garrett wrote: "Of course she does, I probably wasn't clear enough. What I meant is that it's absurd that three Virginia Woolf books should be at the top (which frankly shows a predominantly female audience voting..."

HAHAHAHA. A predominantly female audience voting here? Maybe look at the ENTIRE REST OF THE LIST and tell me which way the audience is skewed. After the first three Woolf novels, you have to go down TWENTY-FIVE books to get to the next woman writer.

Why are poems and poetry books even on this list? It should only be for novels. There are many more contemporary (i.e. post-1980) examples of stream-of-consciousness technique.

Terrible list.
Seems like people who voted for books like: The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, Notes From The Underground, Sputnik Sweetheart (???) are confusing the difference between a novel that contains a character's inner thoughts from a novel that uses stream-of-consciousness. Perhaps it is because the definition at the top is incomplete. The very next sentence from the wikipedia article:

"Stream-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of interior monologue and is characterized by associative leaps in thought and lack of some or all punctuation."

I could go on, on how this list upsets me, but well I save my rants for myself.

The Great Gatsby isn't a stream of consciousness novel. And no Herzog by Saul Bellow. Who compiled this mickey mouse list?

Krzysztof wrote: "Of course Virginia Woolf uses stream of consciousness."

Of course!!

There should be a way of removing books from this list. The list calls for novels, but we have poetry and plays tossed in. Many of the novels cited are not examples of stream of consciousness. People who have no idea of what the term means have added a book, probably because there was a passage, paragraph or chapter the meaning of which they found ambiguous.

With user curated lists like this, there needs to be a downvote option. I agree with some of the comments here that say some of these should not have been added to begin with and it would be easier to sort through which ones are the best examples with a downvote system as well to 'flag' ones that have been incorrectly added.

I've edited the definition to the suggested one down here since I'm already familiar with that. However, Virginia Woolf is cited as stream of consciousness on a number of literary websites, so I'm leaving her books here. I'm not saying she's the best since I dislike stream of consciousness novels and only came across this looking for one for something, but I do know that there are a couple of books on here that don't fit.

I will remove the poetry since it's obviously not supposed to be here

I've left some questionable titles since I'm not supposed to remove books that could possibly be considered stream of conscious novels, but have deleted a 9 page kindle short story, all the poetry I know of (I may have missed some) and a couple of novels I've read where I double checked to see if I missed something and they might be considered that.

Like it or not, The Great Gatsby is sometimes considered this due to elements and sections, so even though I loath this novel personally and know that only parts of this book fit, I'm leaving it in due to strict rules for librarians.

Although The Stone Diaries technically doesn't count because it has other things, I kept it because it has sections like that and three people have voted (another example of a questionable selection I left here.)

I did not look up every novel since I don't have time, just ones I'm familiar with and some that were questioned above. As a volunteer I don't have unlimited time to spend on lists :)