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1

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,275 members

284 reviews

4

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

2

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,877 members

134 reviews

½ 4.4

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

3

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,575 members

125 reviews

3.9

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

4

The Name of the Rose

21,760 members

335 reviews

4.2

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

5

The New York Trilogy

10,847 members

174 reviews

3.9

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

6

by Giovanni Boccaccio

11,449 members

132 reviews

4

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

7

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,067 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

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

8

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,618 members

189 reviews

3.9

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

9

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,817 members

104 reviews

4.2

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

10

by Vladimir Nabokov

9,017 members

157 reviews

4.2

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

11

Erase Una Vez Don Quijote (Spanish and English Edition)

by Miguel de Cervantes

14 members

4

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

12

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,684 members

780 reviews

4.2

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

13

The French Lieutenant's Woman

7,082 members

109 reviews

3.8

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

14

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

16,797 members

637 reviews

4

5 Members: amanda4242, cbl_tn, thecoroner, CGlanovsky, ManWithAnAgenda

15

7,641 members

152 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: roby72, cbl_tn, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, FranzK72

16

by Gao Xingjian

2,825 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: SilentInAWay, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky, FranzK72

17

4,745 members

50 reviews

4.2

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

18

The Magic Mountain

11,220 members

195 reviews

4.2

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

19

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

19,283 members

437 reviews

4.1

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

20

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

12,394 members

203 reviews

3.9

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

21

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

12,125 members

155 reviews

4

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

22

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

1,767 members

34 reviews

4.1

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

23

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,655 members

38 reviews

3.8

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

24

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,371 members

1,236 reviews

4.1

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

25

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut

17,821 members

194 reviews

4

3 Members: amanda4242, blackdove07, CGlanovsky

26

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,655 members

416 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

27

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,839 members

514 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

895 members

16 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

29

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,274 members

635 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68

30

Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec

4,262 members

66 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

31

by Günter Grass

8,408 members

104 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

32

6,013 members

64 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

33

by Gilbert Sorrentino

451 members

3 reviews

4.1

4 Members: absurdeist, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

34

by Hermann Hesse

15,214 members

215 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky

35

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

3,640 members

74 reviews

3.9

3 Members: SilentInAWay, alex68, CGlanovsky

36

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,114 members

286 reviews

4

4 Members: amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

37

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,467 members

28 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

38

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,258 members

29 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

39

14,245 members

313 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

29,277 members

600 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242

41

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,995 members

99 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

42

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

5,387 members

129 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

43

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,768 members

391 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

44

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

19,726 members

405 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

45

Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels

by Giorgio Manganelli

227 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

46

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,981 members

76 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

47

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,619 members

34 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

48

Travels in the Scriptorium

2,203 members

68 reviews

3.2

2 Members: CGlanovsky, ManWithAnAgenda

49

Memories of a Butterfly

8 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: exvano

50

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,547 members

252 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

51

Lost in the Funhouse

1,726 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: absurdeist

52

by Roberto Bolaño

7,770 members

213 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

53

The Christmas Mystery

by Jostein Gaarder

1,274 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: cbl_tn

54

by David Foster Wallace

14,968 members

269 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Jennifer Egan

2,150 members

98 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

Double or Nothing

by Raymond Federman

127 members

1 review

3.8

Member: absurdeist

57

The Big Over Easy

by Jasper Fforde

6,016 members

190 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

Drawers & Booths

19 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: absurdeist

59

The Well of Lost Plots

by Jasper Fforde

8,389 members

190 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books

by Thomas Wharton

214 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: CGlanovsky

61

by J. M. Coetzee

2,093 members

43 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: CGlanovsky

62

489 members

12 reviews

4

Member: CGlanovsky

63

3,387 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CGlanovsky

64

by Kurt Vonnegut

5,907 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CGlanovsky

65

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis

2,588 members

111 reviews

3.9

Member: CGlanovsky

66

by David Mitchell

19,628 members

716 reviews

4.1

Member: amanda4242

67

All Men Are Liars

by Alberto Manguel

207 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: CGlanovsky

68

In the Dutch Mountains

by Cees Nooteboom

361 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CGlanovsky

69

Don Quixote [Part 2 of 2]

by Miguel de Cervantes

1,113 members

23 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: CGlanovsky

70

by Chuck Palahniuk

21,177 members

352 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

71

The Things They Carried

16,475 members

414 reviews

4.2

72

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

5,818 members

476 reviews

3.8

73

by Anthony Horowitz

5,016 members

265 reviews

3.9

74

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,701 members

135 reviews

4

75

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

4,302 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

76

3,038 members

55 reviews

3.8

77

Girl with Curious Hair: Stories

by David Foster Wallace

2,463 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

78

City of Saints and Madmen

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,234 members

51 reviews

4

79

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

by Robert Rankin

1,652 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

80

1,091 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

81

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

by Thomas Ligotti

1,049 members

20 reviews

4

82

585 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

83

by John Gardner

404 members

6 reviews

3.9

84

332 members

13 reviews

½ 3.3

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Started: CGlanovsky
February 2013
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