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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 115,370 ratings — published 1979
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 138,576 ratings — published 2001
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 208,529 ratings — published 2000
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,510,843 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 — 740,092 ratings — published 2001
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 120,225 ratings — published 2012
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,003 ratings — published 1973
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 104,156 ratings — published 1996
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 9 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,013 ratings — published 1987
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 958,327 ratings — published 1973
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,132,557 ratings — published 1967
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 59,221 ratings — published 1962
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.45 — 20,705 ratings — published 2010
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 174,775 ratings — published 2016
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 29,642 ratings — published 2013
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 288,065 ratings — published 1991
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 85,652 ratings — published 1990
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 138,487 ratings — published 2013
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,379 ratings — published 1972
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,541 ratings — published 1939
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 225,237 ratings — published 1979
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 56,613 ratings — published 2002
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 27,805 ratings — published 2007
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 185,796 ratings — published 2022
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 272,831 ratings — published 2004
The Pale King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,273 ratings — published 2011
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 565,591 ratings — published 2002
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,526 ratings — published 1973
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 165,997 ratings — published 2000
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,310 ratings — published 2011
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,887 ratings — published 2003
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,269 ratings — published 2004
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 56,573 ratings — published 2000
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 94,240 ratings — published 2023
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,119,381 ratings — published 2023
Devil House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.19 — 16,613 ratings — published 2022
Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,665 ratings — published 2020
The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 58,630 ratings — published 2018
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 — 29,478 ratings — published 2017
HHhH (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,047 ratings — published 2010
The Broom of the System (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,870 ratings — published 1987
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,299 ratings — published 1981
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 100,422 ratings — published 1966
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 345,671 ratings — published 2009
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 321,431 ratings — published 1994
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,774,954 ratings — published 2001
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,511,197 ratings — published 1985
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,960 ratings — published 1967
Endling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,727 ratings — published 2025
West Heart Kill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as meta-fiction)
avg rating 3.00 — 5,473 ratings — published 2023
“But Jo's right. I need to prove that I'm more than the girl who dies at the end of the book.”
― Beth Is Dead
― Beth Is Dead
“I know I don't have main character energy, like Jo, but I've never felt so insignificant.”
― Beth Is Dead
― Beth Is Dead
