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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 111,723 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 199,830 ratings — published 2000
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,044 ratings — published 1969
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,483 ratings — published 1962
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 137,173 ratings — published 2001
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 947,200 ratings — published 1973
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 53 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 86,796 ratings — published 1987
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 279,547 ratings — published 1973
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 267,391 ratings — published 2004
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 45 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 117,572 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 394,988 ratings — published 1980
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 281,894 ratings — published 1991
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,510 ratings — published 1969
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 220,639 ratings — published 1979
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 163,388 ratings — published 2000
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 56,109 ratings — published 2002
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,786 ratings — published 1615
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 562,734 ratings — published 2001
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,304 ratings — published 1939
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,837 ratings — published 2013
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 442,649 ratings — published 2003
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 78,942 ratings — published 1944
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,348 ratings — published 1990
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,479 ratings — published 2003
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,415,415 ratings — published 1985
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 92,967 ratings — published 1967
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,310 ratings — published 1996
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 97,087 ratings — published 1972
Lost in the Funhouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.68 — 6,736 ratings — published 1968
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 97,186 ratings — published 1966
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,014 ratings — published 2004
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 27,576 ratings — published 2007
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 33,798 ratings — published 1962
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 74,808 ratings — published 1988
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,657 ratings — published 2007
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,021,192 ratings — published 2023
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,048,807 ratings — published 1601
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 943,839 ratings — published 1955
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,453 ratings — published 2011
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 134,869 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 — 2,012,719 ratings — published 1979
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 23,026 ratings — published 1767
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,751,743 ratings — published 2001
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,632 ratings — published 2012
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 718,277 ratings — published 2001
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,828,582 ratings — published 1953
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 344,383 ratings — published 1990
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 452,884 ratings — published 1817
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 254,834 ratings — published 2004
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 419,140 ratings — published 1967
“A memory is just an
imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to
relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be
remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire,
can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too”
― Journeys Beyond Earth
imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to
relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be
remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire,
can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too”
― Journeys Beyond Earth
“They are merely actors, playing roles in complex dramas and intrigues to remain forever, they suppose, fictional.”
― You Can Leave: a novel
― You Can Leave: a novel












