61 Essential Postmodern Reads

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An annotated list put out by the LA Times in 2009 that names 61 essentials of post-modernism. Link to original article. Note: there is no ordering so #1, #2 ... #61 has no significance (someone show more should remove the numbers and replace with codes used in LA article; keep the original numbering as "(60| code1, code2)" for easier checking).

Note that #36 on the published list is Shelley Jackson's "Skin", which is neither finished nor a book that is in LibraryThing :) show less
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Year Awarded:
2009
WorkCategoryOrder Label
The New York Trilogy (1985) by Paul Auster
4
Giles Goat-Boy (1966) by John Barth
7
G. (1972) by John Berger
9
The Loser (1983) by Thomas Bernhard
10
2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
11
Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges
12
Naked Lunch (1962) by William S. Burroughs
13
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton
14
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
15
Hopscotch (1966) by Julio Cortázar
16
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover
17
Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine (1972) by Stanley Crawford
18
House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
19
Great Jones Street (1972) by Don DeLillo
20
The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
21
City of God (2000) by E. L. Doctorow
22
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence (1997) by Geoff Dyer
23
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco
24
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers
25
Tours of the Black Clock (1989) by Steve Erickson
26
I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) by Percival Everett
27
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner
28
Everything Is Illuminated (2001) by Jonathan Safran Foer
29
J R (1975) by William Gaddis
30
The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass
31
The Lime Twig (1961) by John Hawkes
32
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
33
The Lazarus Project (2008) by Aleksandar Hemon
34
Dispatches (1977) by Michael Herr
35
The Metamorphosis (1912) by Franz Kafka
36
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera
38
Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem
38
Notable American Women (2002) by Ben Marcus
40
Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson
40
Remainder (2005) by Tom McCarthy
41
Women and Men (1986) by Joseph McElroy
42
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright (1972) by Steven Millhauser
44
Pale Fire (2011) by Vladimir Nabokov
45
At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
46
The Things They Carried (1990) by Tim O'Brien
48
Best of American Splendor (2005) by Harvey Pekar
49
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
49
The Counterlife (1986) by Philip Roth
50
The Rings of Saturn (1995) by W. G. Sebald
52
Hamlet (1603) by William Shakespeare
53
Mulligan Stew (1979) by Gilbert Sorrentino
54
Trance (2005) by Christopher Sorrentino
55
The Complete Maus (1973) by Art Spiegelman
55
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
56
PopCo (2004) by Scarlett Thomas
58
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
58
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
59
John Henry Days (2001) by Colson Whitehead
61
The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) by J. G. Ballard
author is a character, self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, plays with language, blurs reality and fiction
In Memoriam to Identity (1990) by Kathy Acker
disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, plays with language, overtly references other fictional works
The Hundred Brothers (1997) by Donald Antrim
plays with language, includes fictional artifacts, blurs reality and fiction
Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme
self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, blurs reality and fiction
The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, includes fictional artifacts
The Mezzanine (1988) by Nicholson Baker

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