Maximalism Books
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Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,057 ratings — published 1996
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.01 — 48,010 ratings — published 1973
2666 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.22 — 48,503 ratings — published 2004
The Recognitions (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,324 ratings — published 1955
Against the Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,208 ratings — published 2006
Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,530 ratings — published 1997
The Pale King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 19,804 ratings — published 2011
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.57 — 613,848 ratings — published 1851
V. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,277 ratings — published 1963
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.85 — 197,682 ratings — published 2001
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,359 ratings — published 2000
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,734 ratings — published 1997
Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,282 ratings — published 2016
Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,833 ratings — published 2019
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,500 ratings — published 1922
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.17 — 364,423 ratings — published 1869
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.01 — 266,934 ratings — published 2004
Solenoid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,639 ratings — published 2015
Darconville's Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.28 — 612 ratings — published 1981
The Savage Detectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.18 — 52,315 ratings — published 1998
Women and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.12 — 311 ratings — published 1987
A Naked Singularity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,055 ratings — published 2008
The Broom of the System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,399 ratings — published 1987
The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.77 — 82 ratings — published 2014
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.10 — 926,803 ratings — published 1878
The Tunnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,991 ratings — published 1995
Austerlitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,664 ratings — published 2001
Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 202 ratings — published 2012
Darkmotherland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.27 — 106 ratings — published 2025
Bomarzo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,069 ratings — published 1962
Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 66 ratings — published
The Inquisitors' Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,144 ratings — published 1996
Liontaming in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.45 — 49 ratings — published
A Queen in Bucks County (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.05 — 153 ratings — published 2022
Philomath: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.10 — 185 ratings — published 2021
Three Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.47 — 378 ratings — published 1972
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.86 — 126,634 ratings — published 1985
Villainy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.38 — 96 ratings — published 2021
The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,024 ratings — published 2006
La Medusa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.00 — 111 ratings — published 2008
Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.88 — 98 ratings — published 1984
Wolf Solent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.08 — 629 ratings — published 1929
A Glastonbury Romance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.24 — 471 ratings — published 1932
Dhalgren (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,248 ratings — published 1975
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,599 ratings — published 1939
“...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?”
― Warm Bodies
― Warm Bodies
“More isn’t just more. It’s a statement. It’s personality. It’s an electric jolt. Why blend in when you can burst onto the scene with something so unmistakable, so uniquely chaotic, that no one can ignore you?”
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