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Avant Garde Books
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,869 ratings — published 1959
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.09 — 201,905 ratings — published 2000
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.01 — 112,582 ratings — published 1979
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.76 — 138,304 ratings — published 1922
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,849 ratings — published 1962
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.84 — 223,112 ratings — published 1951
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,605 ratings — published 1962
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.75 — 176,858 ratings — published 2017
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,441,588 ratings — published 1915
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,911 ratings — published 1996
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,488,362 ratings — published 1969
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,729 ratings — published 1921
Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.77 — 494 ratings — published 1974
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,462 ratings — published 1973
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.81 — 215,975 ratings — published 1927
Les Chants de Maldoror (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,817 ratings — published 1869
The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.86 — 86 ratings — published 1987
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,660 ratings — published 1939
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,323 ratings — published 1928
Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.26 — 23,277 ratings — published 1973
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.78 — 358,639 ratings — published 1925
Berg (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,758 ratings — published 1964
Ubu Roi (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.54 — 7,543 ratings — published 1896
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,603 ratings — published 1928
The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.06 — 354 ratings — published 2009
Wittgenstein’s Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,353 ratings — published 1988
The Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.67 — 93 ratings — published 1962
Eeeee Eee Eeee (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.33 — 3,783 ratings — published 2007
In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.78 — 25,003 ratings — published 1968
The Rings of Saturn (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.22 — 17,753 ratings — published 1995
The Family Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.62 — 32,812 ratings — published 2011
Babyfucker (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.54 — 413 ratings — published 1992
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.87 — 949,831 ratings — published 1955
There Is No Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.50 — 799 ratings — published 2011
Murphy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,487 ratings — published 1938
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,905 ratings — published 1923
Exercises in Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,027 ratings — published 1947
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,960 ratings — published 1973
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,415,051 ratings — published 1942
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.10 — 97,865 ratings — published 1972
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.20 — 49,455 ratings — published 1963
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,231 ratings — published 1969
A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.69 — 29 ratings — published 1993
The Employees (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.64 — 28,935 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.61 — 30,860 ratings — published 1973
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.60 — 570,052 ratings — published 2018
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,148 ratings — published 1984
Molloy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,931 ratings — published 1951
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,110,257 ratings — published 1967
“The empires collapsed to rubble. Skyscrapers dragged down to the ground. It was chaos. I could smell the end. It smells of tequila, cannabis, and strawberry shampoo. It's so cold so cold so cold. But I'm not shivering from cold. My own teeth are frigid icepicks. Carved diamond hard, I think I've cut my lip. Maybe it was someone else's teeth that nipped me.”
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“When one hears about acts of extraordinary bravery in combat, it is usually a sign that the battle has not been going terribly well. For when wars unfold according to plan and one's own side is winning, acts of exceptional individual heroism are rarely called for. Bravery is required mostly by the desperate side.”
― Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
― Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages













