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Description: Books about books, stories about stories, fiction about fiction.

Members: 20 participating members (show all)

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1
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
11,280 members, 234 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), absurdeist (1), jeffza (1), Edward (1), thecoroner (2), CGlanovsky (2), Luisali (3), alex68 (4), FranzK72 (4), roby72 (5)

Score: 34.1

2
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,640 members, 99 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (1), SilentInAWay (1), Luisali (4), roby72 (4), alex68 (5), FranzK72 (6), CGlanovsky (6), thecoroner (15)

Score: 23.48

3
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
7,029 members, 104 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), alex68 (3), FranzK72 (3), roby72 (3), absurdeist (3), thecoroner (4), Luisali (5), ManWithAnAgenda (17)

Score: 22.99

4
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
17,911 members, 281 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: RODNEYP (1), Luisali (1), ahef1963 (4), FranzK72 (5), thecoroner (7), alex68 (11), roby72 (11), amanda4242 (14)

Score: 22.42

5
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
9,094 members, 149 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: blackdove07 (1), amanda4242 (2), ahef1963 (5), ManWithAnAgenda (18), CGlanovsky (18), alex68 (19), roby72 (29), FranzK72 (32), thecoroner (32)

Score: 20.93

6
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
8,911 members, 97 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: alex68 (1), FranzK72 (1), thecoroner (1), roby72 (1), amanda4242 (6), ManWithAnAgenda (16)

Score: 20.56

7
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
19,473 members, 153 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), hipdeep (2), thecoroner (5), alex68 (6), ahef1963 (7), FranzK72 (8), roby72 (10)

Score: 19.68

8
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,671 members, 150 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: RODNEYP (2), amanda4242 (5), FranzK72 (10), ahef1963 (10), thecoroner (11), ManWithAnAgenda (14), roby72 (14), alex68 (20)

Score: 18.76

9
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
7,281 members, 81 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), hipdeep (4), SilentInAWay (4), CGlanovsky (4), Luisali (6), ManWithAnAgenda (15)

Score: 16.11

10
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,161 members, 127 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (1), RODNEYP (3), roby72 (7), FranzK72 (15), alex68 (22), thecoroner (23)

Score: 15.21

11
The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes
2 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (2), roby72 (2), thecoroner (3), hipdeep (3), ManWithAnAgenda (13)

Score: 14.91

12
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,078 members, 97 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: RODNEYP (4), ahef1963 (6), roby72 (8), FranzK72 (9), thecoroner (9), alex68 (17)

Score: 14.35

13
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
14,717 members, 580 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: cbl_tn (1), amanda4242 (4), ManWithAnAgenda (5), CGlanovsky (15), thecoroner (44)

Score: 13.09

14
Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
6,494 members, 141 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: cbl_tn (2), CGlanovsky (19), alex68 (21), roby72 (26), FranzK72 (27), thecoroner (31)

Score: 12.37

15
Soul Mountain
by Gao Xingjian
2,294 members, 33 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: SilentInAWay (3), CGlanovsky (11), alex68 (23), FranzK72 (34), roby72 (34), thecoroner (43)

Score: 11.94

16
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann
3,663 members, 41 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: roby72 (6), FranzK72 (7), Luisali (7), alex68 (8), thecoroner (19)

Score: 11.77

17
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
8,542 members, 148 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: alex68 (7), Luisali (8), roby72 (9), thecoroner (13), FranzK72 (17)

Score: 11.22

18
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
13,094 members, 335 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), amanda4242 (8), ahef1963 (15), thecoroner (30), FranzK72 (33)

Score: 11.15

19
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
9,293 members, 154 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3), thecoroner (8), roby72 (17), FranzK72 (20), alex68 (25)

Score: 11.07

20
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki
1,427 members, 28 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: Luisali (2), alex68 (16), thecoroner (18), FranzK72 (19), roby72 (30)

Score: 10.93

21
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40,051 members, 604 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), alex68 (9), roby72 (12), FranzK72 (14), thecoroner (27)

Score: 10.66

22
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
1,309 members, 28 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), alex68 (10), FranzK72 (13), roby72 (13), thecoroner (21)

Score: 10.64

23
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
36,737 members, 1,055 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (7), ManWithAnAgenda (12), ahef1963 (12), roby72 (28), thecoroner (41)

Score: 10.08

24
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
15,006 members, 146 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: blackdove07 (2), amanda4242 (3), CGlanovsky (3)

Score: 9.44

25
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
23,435 members, 359 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (11), alex68 (26), roby72 (27), thecoroner (34), FranzK72 (35)

Score: 9.02

26
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
17,943 members, 419 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (9), ManWithAnAgenda (11), roby72 (16), thecoroner (22)

Score: 8.35

27
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
536 members, 8 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Lists: alex68 (2), thecoroner (6), FranzK72 (11)

Score: 8.12

28
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
28,877 members, 516 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (10), alex68 (15), roby72 (18), thecoroner (20)

Score: 8.12

29
Life A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,429 members, 48 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (12), alex68 (13), roby72 (15), FranzK72 (25)

Score: 8.08

30
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
6,965 members, 87 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (10), alex68 (12), roby72 (20), FranzK72 (26)

Score: 8.06

31
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
4,750 members, 53 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), alex68 (14), roby72 (19), FranzK72 (23)

Score: 8.01

32
Mulligan Stew
by Gilbert Sorrentino
342 members, 3 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: absurdeist (4), alex68 (28), FranzK72 (28), thecoroner (42)

Score: 7.88

33
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
12,221 members, 166 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (14), CGlanovsky (20), roby72 (23), alex68 (30)

Score: 7.5

34
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
2,987 members, 57 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: SilentInAWay (2), CGlanovsky (9), alex68 (31)

Score: 7.37

35
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
11,342 members, 239 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (13), FranzK72 (21), alex68 (27), thecoroner (36)

Score: 7.36

36
Conversation in the Cathedral
by Mario Vargas Llosa
1,092 members, 22 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: alex68 (18), roby72 (22), FranzK72 (24), thecoroner (29)

Score: 7.32

37
The Pledge
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
1,008 members, 23 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (17), roby72 (21), FranzK72 (30), alex68 (32)

Score: 7.23

38
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
12,091 members, 271 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (10), FranzK72 (31), alex68 (39), thecoroner (47)

Score: 7.07

39
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
9,793 members, 130 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (25), roby72 (25), FranzK72 (29), alex68 (33)

Score: 6.97

40
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
22,247 members, 498 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), amanda4242 (12)

Score: 6.15

41
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,885 members, 79 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (12), thecoroner (24), alex68 (34)

Score: 5.61

42
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
4,302 members, 104 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16), roby72 (24), alex68 (35)

Score: 5.45

43
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
15,303 members, 364 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), roby72 (31), thecoroner (35)

Score: 5.45

44
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
16,435 members, 349 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), roby72 (32), thecoroner (37)

Score: 5.37

45
Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
by Giorgio Manganelli
159 members, 1 review
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (18), alex68 (24), thecoroner (40)

Score: 5.34

46
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
by Mario Vargas Llosa
2,377 members, 65 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (16), alex68 (36), thecoroner (39)

Score: 5.23

47
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
1,943 members, 34 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (22), thecoroner (28), alex68 (37)

Score: 5.21

48
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster
1,907 members, 64 reviews
3.21 stars (3.21 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (5), ManWithAnAgenda (9)

Score: 4.98

49
Memories of a Butterfly
by Ivan Vlasov
7 members, 2 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: exvano (1)

Score: 4

50
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
19,265 members, 189 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8), thecoroner (46)

Score: 3.91

51
Lost in the Funhouse
by John Barth
1,425 members, 13 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: absurdeist (2)

Score: 3.36

52
2666
by Roberto Bolaño
5,869 members, 162 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (26), alex68 (40)

Score: 3.36

53
The Christmas Mystery
by Jostein Gaarder
1,092 members, 25 reviews
3.42 stars (3.42 stars)

Lists: cbl_tn (3)

Score: 3.04

54
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
11,835 members, 228 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (33), roby72 (33), alex68 (38)

Thumbs down: ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 2.95

55
The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
1,876 members, 89 reviews
3.42 stars (3.42 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (4)

Score: 2.83

56
Double or Nothing
by Raymond Federman
105 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: absurdeist (5)

Score: 2.68

57
The Big Over Easy
by Jasper Fforde
5,521 members, 179 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (6)

Score: 2.56

58
Drawers & Booths
by Ara 13
18 members, 5 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: absurdeist (6)

Score: 2.56

59
The Well of Lost Plots
by Jasper Fforde
7,634 members, 180 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (7)

Score: 2.46

60
The Logogryph: A Bibliography Of Imaginary Books
by Thomas Wharton
197 members, 5 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (7)

Score: 2.46

61
Foe
by J. M. Coetzee
1,688 members, 38 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (8)

Score: 2.38

62
Hav
by Jan Morris
347 members, 10 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (10)

Score: 2.25

63
Oracle Night
by Paul Auster
2,996 members, 48 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (12)

Score: 2.15

64
Timequake
by Kurt Vonnegut
5,013 members, 52 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (13)

Score: 2.11

65
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
by Apostolos Doxiadis
2,055 members, 100 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (14)

Score: 2.07

66
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
16,009 members, 644 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (15)

Score: 2.03

67
All Men Are Liars
by Alberto Manguel
171 members, 6 reviews
3.24 stars (3.24 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (16)

Score: 2

68
In the Dutch Mountains
by Cees Nooteboom
307 members, 10 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (17)

Score: 1.97

69
Don Quixote [Part 2 of 2]
by Miguel de Cervantes
731 members, 10 reviews
4.49 stars (4.49 stars)

Lists: CGlanovsky (21)

Score: 1.87

70
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
17,687 members, 300 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (45)

Score: 1.54

71
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
12,664 members, 360 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Score: 0

72
Redshirts
by John Scalzi
4,080 members, 382 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Score: 0

73
The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
3,867 members, 112 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Score: 0

74
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
3,629 members, 68 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

75
Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
2,743 members, 188 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Score: 0

76
Leviathan
by Paul Auster
2,591 members, 44 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Score: 0

77
Girl With Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace
2,044 members, 27 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Score: 0

78
City of Saints and Madmen
by Jeff VanderMeer
1,795 members, 41 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Score: 0

79
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
by Robert Rankin
1,516 members, 42 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Score: 0

80
Chimera
by John Barth
929 members, 12 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Score: 0

81
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
by Thomas Ligotti
551 members, 10 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Score: 0

82
Et Tu, Babe
by Mark Leyner
518 members, 6 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Score: 0

83
Freddy's Book
by John Gardner
348 members, 6 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Score: 0

84
Ibid: A Novel
by Mark Dunn
281 members, 12 reviews
3.37 stars (3.37 stars)

Score: 0

85
The Thing About Alice
by Jean-Luke Swanepoel
4 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Score: 0

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