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1

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,518 members

258 reviews

4.1

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

2

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,598 members

114 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

7,667 members

113 reviews

3.9

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

4

The Name of the Rose

19,517 members

310 reviews

4.2

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

5

The New York Trilogy

9,814 members

155 reviews

3.9

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

6

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,997 members

120 reviews

4

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

7

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,978 members

168 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

12,927 members

161 reviews

3.9

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

9

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,002 members

90 reviews

4.2

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

10

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,942 members

139 reviews

4.2

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

11

The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes

6 members

4

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

12

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,534 members

108 reviews

3.8

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

13

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

15,667 members

601 reviews

4

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

14

7,027 members

147 reviews

½ 3.6

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

15

by Gao Xingjian

2,516 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

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

16

4,099 members

47 reviews

4.1

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

17

The Magic Mountain

9,599 members

175 reviews

4.2

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

18

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,675 members

377 reviews

4.1

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

19

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,609 members

175 reviews

3.9

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

20

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

1,576 members

32 reviews

4.1

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

21

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,397 members

695 reviews

4.2

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

22

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,425 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

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

23

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,275 members

1,139 reviews

4.1

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

24

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut

16,257 members

167 reviews

4

3 Members: amanda4242, blackdove07, CGlanovsky

25

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,860 members

389 reviews

4

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

26

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,444 members

465 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

617 members

12 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

28

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,704 members

563 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68

29

Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec

3,793 members

55 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

30

by Günter Grass

7,589 members

93 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

31

5,336 members

58 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

32

by Gilbert Sorrentino

391 members

3 reviews

4

4 Members: absurdeist, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

33

by Hermann Hesse

13,506 members

192 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, CGlanovsky

34

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

3,273 members

63 reviews

3.9

3 Members: SilentInAWay, alex68, CGlanovsky

35

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,574 members

265 reviews

4

4 Members: amanda4242, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

36

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,252 members

24 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

37

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,124 members

23 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

38

12,960 members

289 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,751 members

142 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

40

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

24,831 members

530 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242

41

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,384 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

42

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

4,772 members

119 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

43

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,482 members

384 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

44

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,865 members

370 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

45

Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels

by Giorgio Manganelli

191 members

2 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

46

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,650 members

70 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

47

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,212 members

36 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

48

Travels in the Scriptorium

2,047 members

67 reviews

3.2

2 Members: CGlanovsky, ManWithAnAgenda

49

Memories of a Butterfly

7 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: exvano

50

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,207 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

51

Lost in the Funhouse

1,551 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: absurdeist

52

by Roberto Bolaño

6,627 members

185 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

53

The Christmas Mystery

by Jostein Gaarder

1,179 members

27 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: cbl_tn

54

by David Foster Wallace

13,170 members

243 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Jennifer Egan

1,990 members

96 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

Double or Nothing

by Raymond Federman

112 members

1 review

3.9

Member: absurdeist

57

The Big Over Easy

by Jasper Fforde

5,730 members

180 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

Drawers & Booths

18 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: absurdeist

59

The Well of Lost Plots

by Jasper Fforde

7,999 members

182 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Logogryph: A Bibliography Of Imaginary Books

by Thomas Wharton

206 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: CGlanovsky

61

by J. M. Coetzee

1,862 members

41 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: CGlanovsky

62

415 members

10 reviews

4

Member: CGlanovsky

63

3,159 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CGlanovsky

64

by Kurt Vonnegut

5,412 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CGlanovsky

65

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis

2,301 members

103 reviews

3.9

Member: CGlanovsky

66

by David Mitchell

17,685 members

682 reviews

4.1

Member: amanda4242

67

All Men Are Liars

by Alberto Manguel

189 members

7 reviews

3.2

Member: CGlanovsky

68

In the Dutch Mountains

by Cees Nooteboom

331 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CGlanovsky

69

Don Quixote [Part 2 of 2]

by Miguel de Cervantes

954 members

15 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: CGlanovsky

70

by Chuck Palahniuk

19,331 members

326 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

71

The Things They Carried

14,342 members

393 reviews

4.2

72

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

4,901 members

430 reviews

3.8

73

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,235 members

123 reviews

4

74

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

3,930 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

75

by Anthony Horowitz

3,827 members

234 reviews

3.9

76

2,787 members

50 reviews

3.8

77

Girl With Curious Hair

by David Foster Wallace

2,253 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

78

City of Saints and Madmen

by Jeff VanderMeer

1,985 members

46 reviews

4

79

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

by Robert Rankin

1,574 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

80

995 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

81

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

by Thomas Ligotti

776 members

12 reviews

4

82

545 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

83

by John Gardner

371 members

6 reviews

3.9

84

308 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

85

The Thing About Alice

by Jean-Luke Swanepoel

8 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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Started: CGlanovsky
February 2013
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