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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 114,431 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,135 ratings — published 2000
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,502,810 ratings — published 1969
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 58,724 ratings — published 1962
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 138,216 ratings — published 2001
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 955,489 ratings — published 1973
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 53 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,426 ratings — published 1987
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,888 ratings — published 1973
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 271,522 ratings — published 2004
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 47 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 119,287 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 400,665 ratings — published 1980
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,982 ratings — published 1969
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 286,592 ratings — published 1991
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 309,898 ratings — published 1605
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 570,334 ratings — published 2001
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 224,130 ratings — published 1979
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 165,182 ratings — published 2000
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 56,473 ratings — published 2002
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 29,418 ratings — published 2013
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,474 ratings — published 1939
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 85,319 ratings — published 1990
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 445,276 ratings — published 2003
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 81,164 ratings — published 1944
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,486,544 ratings — published 1985
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,764 ratings — published 2003
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,718 ratings — published 1967
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,346 ratings — published 1996
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,479 ratings — published 1972
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 99,624 ratings — published 1966
Lost in the Funhouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,805 ratings — published 1968
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,138 ratings — published 1962
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,960 ratings — published 2007
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,186 ratings — published 2004
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 27,750 ratings — published 2007
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,156 ratings — published 1767
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,459 ratings — published 1955
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,454 ratings — published 2011
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 75,595 ratings — published 1988
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 734,794 ratings — published 2001
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,094,932 ratings — published 2023
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 462,473 ratings — published 1817
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,768,832 ratings — published 2001
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 137,636 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 — 2,043,320 ratings — published 1979
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,070,974 ratings — published 1601
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 258,683 ratings — published 2004
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 433,598 ratings — published 1967
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,639 ratings — published 2012
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 239,575 ratings — published 1962
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,906,956 ratings — published 1953
“No, I realize Hektor was just another rando bit player on whatever bullshit 'hero's journey' you think you've been on. But when this is over, you'll finally realize that you're not even the star of your own story. You're a goddam black hole.”
― Saga #49
― Saga #49
“One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.”
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