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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 116,274 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 211,150 ratings — published 2000
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,520,349 ratings — published 1969
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 59,872 ratings — published 1962
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 138,939 ratings — published 2001
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 961,363 ratings — published 1973
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 53 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,645 ratings — published 1987
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 285,251 ratings — published 1973
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,154 ratings — published 2004
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 47 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 120,988 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 405,045 ratings — published 1980
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,454 ratings — published 1605
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,383 ratings — published 1969
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 290,076 ratings — published 1991
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 576,074 ratings — published 2001
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 226,505 ratings — published 1979
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 29,846 ratings — published 2013
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 166,726 ratings — published 2000
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 56,720 ratings — published 2002
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,634 ratings — published 1939
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 447,015 ratings — published 2003
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,181 ratings — published 1990
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 82,899 ratings — published 1944
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 105,116 ratings — published 1996
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,973 ratings — published 2003
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,539,555 ratings — published 1985
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,173 ratings — published 1967
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,536 ratings — published 1972
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,453 ratings — published 1962
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 101,326 ratings — published 1966
Lost in the Funhouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,864 ratings — published 1968
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,238 ratings — published 2007
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,341 ratings — published 2004
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 27,853 ratings — published 2007
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,319 ratings — published 1767
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,452 ratings — published 2011
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,270 ratings — published 1988
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 746,754 ratings — published 2001
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,146,764 ratings — published 2023
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,084,638 ratings — published 1601
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,352 ratings — published 1955
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 139,549 ratings — published 2013
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,066,726 ratings — published 1979
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 468,981 ratings — published 1817
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,782,371 ratings — published 2001
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 261,686 ratings — published 2004
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 444,738 ratings — published 1925
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,644 ratings — published 2012
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,964,639 ratings — published 1963
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 354,670 ratings — published 1990
“What? I’m sorry, I didn’t hear what you were saying.” I’m too preoccupied staring at the Adonis who just took the table across from mine. A quick rundown for posterity. Or skip the list and form a mental picture of a stallion in his prime galloping in slow motion across a beach as his silky mane streams out like a flag and his glossy coat glistens under the sun, and you’ll get the general idea.”
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“Why do I covet metafiction so much? Why do I nurture a style that David Foster Wallace purportedly exploded in the late 1980s, that is derided by most literary theorists as passé, that people tend to agree serves no worldly, moral purpose other than to draw attention to the writer’s own navel? Because, dammit, metafiction is relevant to today.”
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