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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 118,035 ratings — published 1979
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 139,705 ratings — published 2001
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 216,671 ratings — published 2000
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,536,636 ratings — published 1969
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 759,846 ratings — published 2001
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 122,254 ratings — published 2012
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 287,507 ratings — published 1973
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,806 ratings — published 1996
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 9 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,926 ratings — published 1987
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 61,132 ratings — published 1962
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 182,402 ratings — published 2016
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 966,614 ratings — published 1973
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,161,539 ratings — published 1967
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.45 — 20,942 ratings — published 2010
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,216 ratings — published 2013
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 294,035 ratings — published 1991
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 87,066 ratings — published 1990
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 141,184 ratings — published 2013
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,642 ratings — published 1972
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,783 ratings — published 1939
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 228,828 ratings — published 1979
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 57,037 ratings — published 2002
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 27,993 ratings — published 2007
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 100,834 ratings — published 2023
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 196,911 ratings — published 2022
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 276,926 ratings — published 2004
The Pale King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,621 ratings — published 2011
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 582,278 ratings — published 2002
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,662 ratings — published 1973
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 168,034 ratings — published 2000
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,492 ratings — published 2011
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,177 ratings — published 2003
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,490 ratings — published 2004
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,252 ratings — published 2000
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,192,151 ratings — published 2023
Devil House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.19 — 16,995 ratings — published 2022
Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 71,213 ratings — published 2020
The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 61,268 ratings — published 2018
The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 109,781 ratings — published 2017
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 30,014 ratings — published 2017
HHhH (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,721 ratings — published 2010
The Broom of the System (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 25,266 ratings — published 1987
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 137,290 ratings — published 1981
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,865 ratings — published 1965
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 351,319 ratings — published 2009
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 327,995 ratings — published 1994
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 7,932 ratings — published 1983
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,793,556 ratings — published 2001
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,586,029 ratings — published 1985
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,617 ratings — published 1967
“Although unavailable for analysis the moment it happens, being struck a violent blow on the head is a very interesting experience.”
― Animal Money
― Animal Money
“Sometimes there was no third book. No resolution no matter how many times you reread or how hard you wished for it.”
― This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
― This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
