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1

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,355 members

287 reviews

4

10 Members: Edward, absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, Luisali, ahef1963, jeffza, FranzK72

2

The New York Trilogy

10,912 members

174 reviews

3.9

10 Members: roby72, amanda4242, blackdove07, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, ahef1963, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Giovanni Boccaccio

11,512 members

133 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,583 members

125 reviews

3.9

8 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,884 members

135 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: SilentInAWay, roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, Luisali, FranzK72

6

The Name of the Rose

21,821 members

336 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, FranzK72, RODNEYP

7

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,696 members

191 reviews

3.9

9 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91, ManWithAnAgenda, RODNEYP

8

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,113 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Vladimir Nabokov

9,043 members

157 reviews

4.2

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91, RODNEYP

10

by Gao Xingjian

2,847 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: SilentInAWay, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, ahef1963, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91

11

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

16,852 members

639 reviews

4

6 Members: amanda4242, cbl_tn, thecoroner, CGlanovsky, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,853 members

105 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, SilentInAWay, CGlanovsky, Luisali, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

7,673 members

152 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: roby72, cbl_tn, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91

14

Erase Una Vez Don Quijote (Spanish and English Edition)

by Miguel de Cervantes

15 members

4

5 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

15

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,350 members

784 reviews

4.2

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, trent_s

16

The French Lieutenant's Woman

7,110 members

109 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, RODNEYP

17

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

12,179 members

156 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91, bekisar

18

4,744 members

51 reviews

4.2

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, FranzK72

19

Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

by Kurt Vonnegut

17,863 members

197 reviews

4

4 Members: amanda4242, blackdove07, CGlanovsky, ahef1963

20

The Magic Mountain

11,298 members

196 reviews

4.2

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, FranzK72

21

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

19,439 members

439 reviews

4.1

5 Members: amanda4242, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

29,447 members

601 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, al.vick, ahef1963

23

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

12,478 members

205 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

24

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,804 members

418 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

25

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

1,768 members

34 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, FranzK72

26

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,663 members

38 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

27

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

900 members

16 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91

28

by Gilbert Sorrentino

452 members

3 reviews

4.1

5 Members: absurdeist, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, mlopezsainz91

29

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,669 members

1,238 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

5,418 members

129 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mlopezsainz91

31

by Hermann Hesse

15,290 members

215 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, ahef1963

32

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,189 members

286 reviews

4

5 Members: amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

33

14,315 members

316 reviews

4

5 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,970 members

514 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,404 members

637 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68

36

Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec

4,278 members

66 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

37

by Günter Grass

8,421 members

104 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

38

6,032 members

64 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

39

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

3,657 members

74 reviews

3.9

3 Members: SilentInAWay, alex68, CGlanovsky

40

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,475 members

27 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

41

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,261 members

26 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

42

The Astral Library

908 members

36 reviews

3.8

2 Members: al.vick, ahef1963

43

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,609 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

6,017 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

45

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,810 members

392 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

46

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

19,710 members

406 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

47

Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels

by Giorgio Manganelli

229 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

48

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,993 members

76 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

49

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,641 members

34 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

50

Travels in the Scriptorium

2,205 members

68 reviews

3.2

2 Members: CGlanovsky, ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Cornelia Funke

20,829 members

543 reviews

3.9

2 Members: al.vick, ahef1963

52

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,724 members

135 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

53

Memories of a Butterfly

8 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: exvano

54

Lost in the Funhouse

1,733 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: absurdeist

55

by Roberto Bolaño

7,825 members

215 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

56

by Chuck Palahniuk

21,245 members

352 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

57

The Christmas Mystery

by Jostein Gaarder

1,276 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: cbl_tn

58

by David Foster Wallace

15,041 members

271 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,ManWithAnAgenda

59

by Jennifer Egan

2,158 members

98 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

5,846 members

479 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

61

Double or Nothing

by Raymond Federman

127 members

1 review

3.8

Member: absurdeist

62

The Big Over Easy

by Jasper Fforde

6,032 members

192 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

Drawers & Booths

19 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: absurdeist

64

The Well of Lost Plots

by Jasper Fforde

8,401 members

189 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books

by Thomas Wharton

214 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: CGlanovsky

66

by J. M. Coetzee

2,099 members

43 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: CGlanovsky

67

490 members

12 reviews

4

Member: CGlanovsky

68

1,093 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: mlopezsainz91

69

3,394 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CGlanovsky

70

Girl with Curious Hair: Stories

by David Foster Wallace

2,470 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mlopezsainz91

71

by Kurt Vonnegut

5,924 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CGlanovsky

72

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis

2,595 members

112 reviews

3.9

Member: CGlanovsky

73

by David Mitchell

19,717 members

719 reviews

4.1

Member: amanda4242

74

All Men Are Liars

by Alberto Manguel

207 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: CGlanovsky

75

In the Dutch Mountains

by Cees Nooteboom

362 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CGlanovsky

76

Don Quixote [Part 2 of 2]

by Miguel de Cervantes

1,119 members

23 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: CGlanovsky

77

by Anthony Horowitz

5,055 members

267 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

78

The Things They Carried

16,544 members

415 reviews

4.2

79

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

4,325 members

82 reviews

½ 3.7

80

3,046 members

55 reviews

3.8

81

City of Saints and Madmen

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,242 members

51 reviews

4

82

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

by Robert Rankin

1,653 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

83

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

by Thomas Ligotti

1,061 members

20 reviews

4

84

584 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

85

by John Gardner

405 members

6 reviews

3.9

86

333 members

13 reviews

½ 3.3

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February 2013
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