20th Century Experimental Novels Reading List

Collected Ficciones
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Invisible Cities
Ulysses
Pale Fire
Manhattan Transfer
Infinite Jest

House sitting for Cal Bedient and have raided his giant library. I'm reading Aleph and Other Stories and feeling like it really all does start with Borges, at least as far as my expanding interests are concerned.

Or maybe I should say that JLB is where I will choose to start, this list, nd most of the others in the forum, comprised of works I;m mostly unfamiliar with. I am so excited to re-read Gibson when I've gone through JLB (like he's L. Ron Hubbard or something) and can catch all the references. The stories I've read so far have been like a Gibson conceptual dictionary.

Also relevant to our interests, an amazing Wired article related to the Infinfite Library naming our coming epoch The Petabyte Age

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Wonderful list. I'd like to go back and read them all.