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House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.09 — 216,673 ratings — published 2000
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.00 — 118,038 ratings — published 1979
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,265 ratings — published 1959
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.74 — 187,587 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,643 ratings — published 1972
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,217 ratings — published 2013
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.17 — 61,132 ratings — published 1962
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.76 — 142,422 ratings — published 1922
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.19 — 51,977 ratings — published 1963
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.14 — 57,650 ratings — published 1931
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.01 — 276,928 ratings — published 2004
Exercises in Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,605 ratings — published 1947
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,662 ratings — published 1973
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,536,637 ratings — published 1969
Wittgenstein’s Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,762 ratings — published 1988
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,807 ratings — published 1996
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.37 — 172,564 ratings — published 2019
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,932 ratings — published 1983
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.00 — 796,556 ratings — published 1962
The Fifty Year Sword (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.59 — 6,332 ratings — published 2005
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,986 ratings — published 1939
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.02 — 62,377 ratings — published 2009
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,506 ratings — published 2007
Multiple Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,225 ratings — published 2014
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,506 ratings — published 1767
Life: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,709 ratings — published 1978
Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,125 ratings — published 1973
The Mezzanine (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,104 ratings — published 1988
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.81 — 228,474 ratings — published 1927
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.78 — 59,475 ratings — published 2015
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.75 — 66,106 ratings — published 2014
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,574 ratings — published 1969
The Unfortunates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,175 ratings — published 1969
Only Revolutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.23 — 5,978 ratings — published 2006
The Employees (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.61 — 37,799 ratings — published 2018
Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,268 ratings — published 2019
How to be Both (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.66 — 28,710 ratings — published 2014
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.24 — 40,704 ratings — published 1998
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.84 — 230,135 ratings — published 1952
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.94 — 63,399 ratings — published 2001
This Is Not a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,651 ratings — published 2001
One Rainy Day in May (The Familiar, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,294 ratings — published 2015
Tree of Codes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,818 ratings — published 2010
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,554 ratings — published 1984
No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.55 — 58,569 ratings — published 2021
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,866 ratings — published 1965
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,927 ratings — published 1987
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.42 — 7,263 ratings — published 1961
A Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,001 ratings — published 1969
“Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, " Capiche - oh, God, capiche," and at that...”
― Bullet in the Brain
― Bullet in the Brain
“[Fantasy] is a constructive aspect of the child's experimental exploration of reality, or his progressive relating of himself to reality, of his trial-and-error attempts to solve his reality problems.”
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