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Ranker's Best Postmodern Novels

"List of the best postmodern novels from popular postmodern authors that are reactions against Enlightenment and Modernist literature. Postmodern novels use techniques like fragmentation, paradox and questionable narrators in their writing to be experimental in literature. The purpose of postmodern novels is to take serious subjects from a distance and disconnect and be able to depict the stories with irony and humor. Some of the best themes and techniques that are used in postmodern novels are irony and black humor, metafiction, non-linear narratives and fragmentations, paranoia, minimalism, or maximalism." - ranker.com
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Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
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White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise (Don Delillo)
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
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House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
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V. (Thomas Pynchon)
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
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Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
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The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
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Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld (Don Delillo)
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Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
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Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon)
Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon)
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A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
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Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
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Libra (Don Delillo)
Libra (Don Delillo)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
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Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
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The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
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The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
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Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
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City of Glass (Paul Auster)
City of Glass (Paul Auster)
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Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar)
Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar)
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Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
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Bleeding Edge (Thomas Pynchon)
Bleeding Edge (Thomas Pynchon)
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The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
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Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
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The Tunnel (William Gass)
The Tunnel (William Gass)
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Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec)
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec)
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Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
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Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
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The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
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