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The Metamorphosis
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3.90 avg rating — 1,430,890 ratings
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Magic for Beginners
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3.80 avg rating — 10,219 ratings
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Invisible Cities
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4.10 avg rating — 97,434 ratings
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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3.46 avg rating — 98,673 ratings
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Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 215,737 ratings
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Collected Fictions
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4.56 avg rating — 25,698 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,106,072 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 491,041 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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3.81 avg rating — 395,378 ratings
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Cloud Atlas
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4.01 avg rating — 267,988 ratings
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 115,310 ratings
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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4.14 avg rating — 315,143 ratings
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Ice
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3.64 avg rating — 12,197 ratings
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Little, Big
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3.81 avg rating — 12,341 ratings
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Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
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3.78 avg rating — 587 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 395,906 ratings
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Foucault’s Pendulum
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3.91 avg rating — 74,921 ratings
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The Crying of Lot 49
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3.69 avg rating — 97,538 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
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4.30 avg rating — 320,267 ratings
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 75,435 ratings
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The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3)
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4.03 avg rating — 9,912 ratings
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Dhalgren
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3.78 avg rating — 12,286 ratings
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Stranger Things Happen
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3.83 avg rating — 6,413 ratings
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City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 8,124 ratings
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The Castle
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3.91 avg rating — 75,683 ratings
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Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 52,650 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
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3.71 avg rating — 71,833 ratings
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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3.94 avg rating — 547,372 ratings
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
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3.83 avg rating — 22,622 ratings
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Map of Dreams
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3.89 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 84,594 ratings
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Gravity’s Rainbow
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4.01 avg rating — 48,284 ratings
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Big Fish
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3.68 avg rating — 25,502 ratings
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House of Leaves
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4.09 avg rating — 200,776 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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4.11 avg rating — 544,612 ratings
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The Library
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3.69 avg rating — 3,012 ratings
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Nights at the Circus
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3.88 avg rating — 14,705 ratings
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Lost in the Funhouse
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3.67 avg rating — 6,746 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,463,150 ratings
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In the Forest of Forgetting
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3.94 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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Finnegans Wake
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3.68 avg rating — 13,645 ratings
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The Complete Stories
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4.33 avg rating — 28,472 ratings
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Engine Summer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,271 ratings
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Was
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3.89 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
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Fundamental Disch
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3.84 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Sixty Stories
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4.18 avg rating — 6,140 ratings
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
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3.85 avg rating — 4,517 ratings
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A Season in Hell
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4.06 avg rating — 7,003 ratings
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The Complete Dramatic Works
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4.34 avg rating — 2,389 ratings
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Moonwise
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4.09 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Waves
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4.14 avg rating — 53,672 ratings
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Blood and Guts in High School
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3.46 avg rating — 7,130 ratings
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The Bridge
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3.87 avg rating — 12,742 ratings
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Lolly Willowes
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3.69 avg rating — 13,529 ratings
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Ulysses
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3.76 avg rating — 137,942 ratings
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Black Juice
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3.71 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
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Set This House in Order
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4.30 avg rating — 6,192 ratings
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The Glass Bead Game
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4.10 avg rating — 42,463 ratings
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Grendel
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3.69 avg rating — 42,555 ratings
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
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4.28 avg rating — 2,816 ratings
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Ægypt (The Ægypt Cycle, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 2,223 ratings
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The Complete Short Stories
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4.41 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists
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3.99 avg rating — 135 ratings
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X, Y
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3.08 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Tainaron: Mail from Another City
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3.82 avg rating — 1,666 ratings
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Medea the Sorceress
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4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Wall Of The Sky, The Wall Of The Eye: A Strange and Unforgettable Sci-Fi Short Story Collection
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3.67 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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Godmother Night
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3.87 avg rating — 316 ratings
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V.
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3.97 avg rating — 25,366 ratings
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The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
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4.02 avg rating — 314 ratings
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The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories
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3.90 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Impossible Bird
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3.60 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Sarah Canary
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3.42 avg rating — 1,676 ratings
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Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic
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3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
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3.77 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Girl in the Glass
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3.73 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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His Monkey Wife
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3.50 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Waiting for Godot
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3.84 avg rating — 222,465 ratings
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Carmen Dog
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3.54 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Mason & Dixon
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4.14 avg rating — 12,586 ratings
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The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
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4.09 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Changing Planes
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3.86 avg rating — 7,265 ratings
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Bibliomancy: Four Novellas
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4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction
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3.88 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Giles Goat-Boy
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3.75 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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4.12 avg rating — 12,993 ratings
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Verging on the Pertinent
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The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories
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3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Black Glass
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3.57 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Ciphers: A Post-Shannon Rock 'N' Roll Mystery
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3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Brown Girl in the Ring
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3.85 avg rating — 7,520 ratings
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The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss
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3.73 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Chimera
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3.71 avg rating — 2,287 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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3.72 avg rating — 33,851 ratings
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Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
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3.85 avg rating — 44,860 ratings
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Brittle Innings
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3.92 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
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3.58 avg rating — 922 ratings
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Humpty Dumpty: An Oval
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3.12 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Lanark
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4.10 avg rating — 7,885 ratings
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The Hidden Side of the Moon
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3.64 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Comparing the list to the original list in the PDF you linked, 13 titles (*listed below) from the original 115 of the "working canon" have been omitted from this Listopia list, so I've added them. (They were all books that fell on page 2 of the PDF - in the main "working canon" area, not the much larger full list - but several others from the same area of the list, such as Cloud Atlas, made it onto this Listopia list, so...who knows?)
Of course, as there were already 110 titles listed here, when I added the missing 13 the total comes to 123, which is 8 more than the original list. Perhaps some off-list books were added by others? (Or possibly books from the extended list outside the "working canon" in the PDF. I haven't combed through to find them.)
Thanks again for putting this up! It's great to have it as a way of tracking progress through the "canon".
* The books I added to make this list match the original:
X, Y by Michael Blumlein
Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn
Medea the Sorceress by Diane Wakoski
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Library by Zoran Živković
The Impossible Bird by Patrick O'Leary
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic by F. Brett Cox, Andy Duncan
The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford