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65 Essential Postmodern Works

Don't miss the annotated list of sixty-one postmodern works of literature on Jacket Copy, the L.A. Times books blog. They've come up with a set of twelve identifying symbols: a star indicates that the author is a hero; a puzzle piece that the book plays with form; a light bulb that it's a postmodern progenitor.
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In Memoriam to Identity (Kathy Acker)
In Memoriam 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 (Paul Auster)
The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
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The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine
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The Atrocity Exhibition
The Atrocity Exhibition
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Giles Goat-Boy
Giles Goat-Boy
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Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories
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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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Labyrinths
Labyrinths
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Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch (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 Winter's Night a Traveler
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar)
Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar)
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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!
Absalom, Absalom!
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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
Dispatches
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Skin (Shelley Jackson)
Skin (Shelley Jackson)
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Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn
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Notable American Women (Ben Marcus)
Notable American Women (Ben Marcus)
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