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Experimental Literature

Description: From Wikipedia: "Experimental literature refers to written work—usually fiction or poetry—that emphasizes innovation, most especially in technique." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_literature

Based on tag: experimental

Members: 13 participating members (show all)

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1
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,740 members, 150 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: guyalice (1), aulsmith (1), ahef1963 (2), alex68 (4), FranzK72 (20), amanda4242 (23), thecoroner (35)

Score: 19.56

2
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
11,357 members, 235 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), guyalice (2), thecoroner (2), FranzK72 (3), alex68 (5), spiphany

Score: 19.27

3
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,597 members, 311 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (1), thecoroner (1), alex68 (2), ahef1963 (4), Tinuvia

Score: 17.56

4
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
23,504 members, 362 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: guyalice (3), ahef1963 (6), amanda4242 (9), thecoroner (22), alex68 (23), FranzK72 (30)

Score: 13.29

5
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
4,479 members, 91 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (4), thecoroner (4), guyalice (5), alex68 (20), spiphany

Score: 13.05

6
The 42nd Parallel
by John Dos Passos
1,464 members, 20 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: Devlindusty (1), aulsmith (2), FranzK72 (27), alex68 (30), thecoroner (38)

Score: 12.44

7
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
7,056 members, 105 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (2), alex68 (3), thecoroner (3), ahef1963 (5)

Score: 12.12

8
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
40,220 members, 642 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (1), ahef1963 (3), aulsmith (3), thecoroner (41)

Score: 11.66

9
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
31,009 members, 483 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: jain (1), alex68 (8), FranzK72 (9), thecoroner (10), amanda4242 (14)

Thumbs down: ahef1963

Score: 11.01

Explanations:

ahef1963 (0): Couldn't get through it.

10
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
18,295 members, 305 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), amanda4242 (10), FranzK72 (21), alex68 (25), thecoroner (34)

Score: 9.87

11
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16,301 members, 243 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (5), jain (7), FranzK72 (7), alex68 (10)

Score: 9.84

12
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,689 members, 99 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (5), alex68 (7), thecoroner (9), amanda4242 (12)

Score: 9.59

13
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,411 members, 35 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: Jan.K (1), alex68 (18), thecoroner (23), FranzK72 (25)

Score: 9.56

14
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
9,126 members, 149 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), amanda4242 (11), FranzK72 (31), alex68 (37), thecoroner (37)

Score: 9.39

15
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,188 members, 127 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: jain (3), thecoroner (15), alex68 (19), FranzK72 (26)

Score: 8.76

16
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
4,775 members, 53 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: alex68 (1), thecoroner (6), FranzK72 (14), ahef1963 (17)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 8.59

Explanations:

aulsmith (0): Too experimental for me. Fine in small sections read as poetry

17
S.
by Doug Dorst
2,403 members, 76 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: guyalice (4), amanda4242 (8), Tinuvia

Score: 8.57

18
The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
1,073 members, 11 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (6), alex68 (13), Tinuvia

Score: 8.03

19
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,089 members, 98 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), FranzK72 (12), thecoroner (29), alex68 (32)

Score: 7.93

20
Blindness
by José Saramago
11,803 members, 365 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: jain (5), ahef1963 (13), FranzK72 (35), thecoroner (57)

Score: 7.88

21
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
13,245 members, 180 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: guyalice (7), ahef1963 (14), alex68 (45), thecoroner (59)

Score: 7.52

22
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
19,364 members, 190 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), thecoroner (26), FranzK72 (34), alex68 (46)

Score: 7.42

23
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,788 members, 33 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: alex68 (6), thecoroner (7), FranzK72 (8)

Score: 7.39

24
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,668 members, 230 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), FranzK72 (19), alex68 (44), thecoroner (48)

Score: 7.19

25
We: A Novel
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
7,414 members, 198 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (13), FranzK72 (28), alex68 (49), thecoroner (64)

Score: 6.77

26
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5,501 members, 70 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: alex68 (9), FranzK72 (10), thecoroner (18)

Score: 6.5

27
J R
by William Gaddis
1,206 members, 18 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: alex68 (11), thecoroner (13), FranzK72 (15)

Score: 6.34

28
Jealousy
by Alain Robbe-Grillet
561 members, 10 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: Jan.K (2), alex68 (41), thecoroner (70)

Score: 6.33

29
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
8,328 members, 183 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (27), FranzK72 (32), spiphany

Score: 6.27

30
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
13,218 members, 338 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (5), guyalice (10), FranzK72 (33), thecoroner (39)

Thumbs down: ahef1963

Score: 6.19

31
The experience of pain
by Carlo Emilio Gadda
356 members, 7 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (11), alex68 (14), thecoroner (19)

Score: 6.18

32
Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
13,649 members, 252 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: guyalice (6), ahef1963 (12), thecoroner (56)

Score: 6.17

33
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
752 members, 11 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: jain (4), amanda4242 (22), alex68 (53)

Score: 6.16

34
Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
2,757 members, 64 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: alex68 (12), FranzK72 (13), thecoroner (32)

Score: 5.94

36
The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
3,888 members, 112 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: guyalice (12), ahef1963 (20), alex68 (26)

Score: 5.81

37
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,912 members, 81 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (17), thecoroner (17), alex68 (21)

Score: 5.81

38
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,446 members, 48 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (12), FranzK72 (22), alex68 (35)

Score: 5.64

39
Johnny the Partisan
by Beppe Fenoglio
308 members, 4 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: alex68 (16), FranzK72 (16), thecoroner (36)

Score: 5.63

40
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
2,332 members, 49 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (14), FranzK72 (23), alex68 (31)

Score: 5.59

41
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
by Mark Dunn
3,439 members, 240 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (3), guyalice (8)

Score: 5.42

42
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
18,045 members, 428 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (2), FranzK72 (18), thecoroner (25)

Thumbs down: ahef1963

Score: 5.09

Explanations:

ahef1963 (0): I found it incomprehensible.

43
Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
by Giorgio Manganelli
160 members, 1 review
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (24), thecoroner (40), alex68 (50)

Score: 4.9

44
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
17,785 members, 301 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), alex68 (51), thecoroner (76)

Score: 4.85

45
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
13,466 members, 195 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (7), guyalice (9)

Score: 4.77

46
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
9,359 members, 155 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (29), thecoroner (49), alex68 (52)

Score: 4.73

47
The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
by T. S. Eliot
1,407 members, 12 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: Jan.K (4), amanda4242 (24)

Score: 4.64

48
Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
2,804 members, 54 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: Jan.K (5), alex68 (36)

Score: 4.31

49
Ibid: A Novel
by Mark Dunn
281 members, 12 reviews
3.37 stars (3.37 stars)

Lists: guyalice (11), amanda4242 (17)

Score: 4.17

50
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
41,299 members, 1,280 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: guyalice (13), ahef1963 (21)

Score: 3.98

51
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
11,913 members, 229 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: guyalice (14), thecoroner (21)

Score: 3.94

52
Man of Smoke
by Aldo Palazzeschi
57 members, 2 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), alex68 (39)

Score: 3.8

53
Three Lives
by Gertrude Stein
1,592 members, 15 reviews
3.05 stars (3.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (20), alex68 (22)

Score: 3.74

54
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
2,770 members, 25 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: alex68 (15), thecoroner (31)

Score: 3.73

55
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
9,865 members, 131 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16), alex68 (38)

Score: 3.61

56
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs
3,732 members, 50 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (24), alex68 (27)

Score: 3.56

57
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
15,440 members, 372 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), thecoroner (75)

Score: 3.39

58
Always Coming Home
by Ursula K. Le Guin
1,882 members, 19 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: jain (2)

Score: 3.36

59
Nadja
by André Breton
1,866 members, 13 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: alex68 (24), thecoroner (47)

Score: 3.34

60
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino
2,940 members, 41 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: alex68 (28), thecoroner (45)

Score: 3.28

61
Paradiso
by José Lezama Lima
510 members, 11 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (30), alex68 (54)

Score: 3.19

62
Ferdydurke
by Witold Gombrowicz
1,269 members, 16 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: alex68 (29), thecoroner (73)

Score: 3.09

63
Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,216 members, 79 reviews
4.43 stars (4.43 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (42), alex68 (56)

Score: 3.03

64
The Waves
by Virginia Woolf
4,647 members, 65 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (43), alex68 (57)

Score: 3.02

65
Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
1,915 members, 22 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (50), alex68 (58)

Score: 2.95

66
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
12,276 members, 166 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (58), alex68 (59)

Score: 2.89

67
Jacob's Room
by Virginia Woolf
2,128 members, 30 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: alex68 (60), thecoroner (61)

Score: 2.87

68
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
3,709 members, 86 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: alex68 (61), thecoroner (62)

Score: 2.86

69
Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson
3,728 members, 59 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: spiphany

Score: 2.83

70
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
3,337 members, 71 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (4)

Score: 2.83

Explanations:

aulsmith (4): I liked it, but if you get hung up on what it all means it's a bore.

71
Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,211 members, 22 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: spiphany

Score: 2.83

72
Tales of Nevèrÿon
by Samuel R. Delany
986 members, 9 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (4)

Score: 2.83

73
Poems of Paul Celan
by Paul Celan
458 members, 5 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: spiphany

Score: 2.83

74
Kaspar
by Peter Handke
91 members, 1 review
3.31 stars (3.31 stars)

Lists: spiphany

Score: 2.83

75
Soul Mountain
by Gao Xingjian
2,305 members, 33 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: alex68 (62), thecoroner (78)

Score: 2.77

76
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
15,613 members, 210 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (6), thecoroner (8), alex68 (34)

Thumbs down: ahef1963, aulsmith

Score: 2.59

Explanations:

aulsmith (0): Too experimental for me

77
Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
by Nick Bantock
2,825 members, 64 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: jain (6)

Score: 2.56

78
Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence
by Martin Amis
2,856 members, 47 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (15)

Score: 2.03

79
Scorch Atlas
by Blake Butler
191 members, 7 reviews
2.97 stars (2.97 stars)

Lists: guyalice (15)

Score: 2.03

80
The Fifty Year Sword
by Mark Z. Danielewski
564 members, 26 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (16)

Score: 2

81
The Thorn and the Blossom
by Theodora Goss
305 members, 53 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: guyalice (16)

Score: 2

82
Baltasar and Blimunda
by José Saramago
2,186 members, 48 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: alex68 (17)

Score: 1.97

83
Codex Seraphinianus
by Luigi Serafini
695 members, 23 reviews
4.56 stars (4.56 stars)

Lists: guyalice (17)

Score: 1.97

84
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
15,299 members, 453 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18)

Score: 1.94

85
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott
8,842 members, 176 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: guyalice (18)

Score: 1.94

86
100 Selected Poems
by E. E. Cummings
2,060 members, 31 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (18)

Score: 1.94

87
World War Z
by Max Brooks
13,959 members, 676 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: guyalice (19)

Score: 1.92

88
The Accidental
by Ali Smith
2,682 members, 105 reviews
3.23 stars (3.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19)

Score: 1.92

89
Albert Angelo
by B. S. Johnson
174 members, 2 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (19)

Score: 1.92

90
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
15,075 members, 147 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (20)

Score: 1.89

91
A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
by Julian Barnes
3,571 members, 58 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: guyalice (20)

Score: 1.89

93
99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style
by Matt Madden
345 members, 10 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (21)

Score: 1.87

94
2666
by Roberto Bolaño
5,901 members, 162 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (28)

Score: 1.74

95
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
2,997 members, 58 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: alex68 (33)

Score: 1.67

96
The War of the End of the World
by Mario Vargas Llosa
2,079 members, 43 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (33)

Score: 1.67

97
Stream Of Life (Exxon Lecture Series)
by Clarice Lispector
535 members, 12 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: alex68 (40)

Score: 1.59

98
Mulligan Stew
by Gilbert Sorrentino
344 members, 3 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: alex68 (42)

Score: 1.57

99
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
3,650 members, 68 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: alex68 (43)

Score: 1.56

100
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by Chuck Palahniuk
4,634 members, 89 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (44)

Score: 1.55

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