240 books
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201 voters
Avant Garde Books
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,174 ratings — published 1959
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.09 — 197,748 ratings — published 2000
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.02 — 110,690 ratings — published 1979
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,160 ratings — published 1922
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,100 ratings — published 1962
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.84 — 220,734 ratings — published 1951
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.00 — 764,587 ratings — published 1962
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.75 — 173,724 ratings — published 2017
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,396,495 ratings — published 1915
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,405 ratings — published 1921
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.25 — 100,629 ratings — published 1996
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,472,959 ratings — published 1969
Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.76 — 492 ratings — published 1974
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.01 — 47,817 ratings — published 1973
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.81 — 212,745 ratings — published 1927
Les Chants de Maldoror (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,735 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 — 85 ratings — published 1987
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,568 ratings — published 1939
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,099 ratings — published 1928
Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.26 — 21,456 ratings — published 1973
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.78 — 352,712 ratings — published 1925
Berg (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,702 ratings — published 1964
Ubu Roi (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.54 — 7,449 ratings — published 1896
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,099 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 — 7,252 ratings — published 1988
The Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.65 — 92 ratings — published 1962
Eeeee Eee Eeee (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.33 — 3,771 ratings — published 2007
In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.78 — 24,784 ratings — published 1968
The Rings of Saturn (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.22 — 17,403 ratings — published 1995
The Family Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.62 — 32,607 ratings — published 2011
Babyfucker (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.53 — 415 ratings — published 1992
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.87 — 937,166 ratings — published 1955
There Is No Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.51 — 798 ratings — published 2011
Murphy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,420 ratings — published 1938
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,898 ratings — published 1923
Exercises in Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,830 ratings — published 1947
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,946 ratings — published 1973
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,372,157 ratings — published 1942
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.10 — 96,173 ratings — published 1972
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.20 — 48,561 ratings — published 1963
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,154 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 — 26,910 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.60 — 29,865 ratings — published 1973
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.60 — 552,219 ratings — published 2018
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,040 ratings — published 1984
Molloy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,771 ratings — published 1951
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as avant-garde)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,093,474 ratings — published 1967
“2. i got 14 fevers/ i got 5 believers...dressed up like men
tell your mama not to worry/
2. (a) tell your mama & your pappa i'm trying to keep from dying too
3. tell your mamma & your pappa that there's nothing wrong with my jugular vein
tell your mama i love her & tell your sister Alice the same
4. when you sleep on windows & you stay up all night swallowing rocks
5. i should've sent her to Hong Kong instead of leaving”
― The Lyrics, 1961-2012
tell your mama not to worry/
2. (a) tell your mama & your pappa i'm trying to keep from dying too
3. tell your mamma & your pappa that there's nothing wrong with my jugular vein
tell your mama i love her & tell your sister Alice the same
4. when you sleep on windows & you stay up all night swallowing rocks
5. i should've sent her to Hong Kong instead of leaving”
― The Lyrics, 1961-2012













