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61 Essential Postmodern Reads

The thing about postmodernism is it's impossible to pin down exactly what might make a book postmodern. In looking at the attributes of the essential postmodern reads, we found some were downright contradictory. Postmodern books have a reputation for being massive tomes, like David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" -- but then there's "The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker, which has just 144 pages. And while postmodern books would, you'd think, have to be published after the modern period -- in the 20th or 21st centuries -- could postmodernism exist without "Tristram Shandy"? We think not.
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In Memorium to Identity (Kathy Acker)
In Memorium to Identity (Kathy Acker)
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The Hundred Brothers (Donald Antrim)
The Hundred Brothers (Donald Antrim)
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The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
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The New York Trilogy
The New York Trilogy
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The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine
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The Atrocity Exhibition (J. G. Ballard)
The Atrocity Exhibition (J. G. Ballard)
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Giles Goat-Boy
Giles Goat-Boy
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60 Stories (Donald Barthelme)
60 Stories (Donald Barthelme)
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G (John Berger)
G (John Berger)
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The Loser
The Loser
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2666
2666
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Labrynths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labrynths (Jorge Luis Borges)
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Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
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If on a Winters Night a Traveller
If on a Winters Night a Traveller
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Hopscotch
Hopscotch
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
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Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
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House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
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Great Jones Street
Great Jones Street
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The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
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City of God
City of God
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Out of Sheer Rage
Out of Sheer Rage
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Umberto Eco)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Umberto Eco)
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Tours of the Black Clock (Steve Erickson)
Tours of the Black Clock (Steve Erickson)
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
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Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
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Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated
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JR
JR
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The Tunnel (William Gass)
The Tunnel (William Gass)
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The Lime Twig (John Hawkes)
The Lime Twig (John Hawkes)
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The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project
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Dispatches (Michael Herr)
Dispatches (Michael Herr)
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Skin (Shelley Jackson)
Skin (Shelley Jackson)
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
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Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem)
Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem)
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Notable American Women (Ben Marcus)
Notable American Women (Ben Marcus)
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