List Challenges
Movies Books Travel Food Other
Trending
New
Popular
Sign In
 Make a List Browse Lists Search Lists Leaders Help / Contact Newsletter

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.
Read More
728 users · 4,511 views
 
avg. score: 5 of 61 (9%)
required scores: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 
type to search

How many have you read?

Page 1 of 2
In Memorium to Identity (Kathy Acker)
In Memorium to Identity (Kathy Acker)
1
The Hundred Brothers (Donald Antrim)
The Hundred Brothers
2
Donald Antrim
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Blind Assassin
3
Margaret Atwood
The New York Trilogy
The New York Trilogy
4
The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine
5
The Atrocity Exhibition (J. G. Ballard)
The Atrocity Exhibition
6
J. G. Ballard
Giles Goat-Boy
Giles Goat-Boy
7
60 Stories (Donald Barthelme)
60 Stories
8
Donald Barthelme
G (John Berger)
G
9
John Berger
The Loser
The Loser
10
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
11
Roberto Bolaño
Labrynths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labrynths
12
Jorge Luis Borges
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
13
William S. Burroughs
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
The Anatomy of Melancholy
14
Robert Burton
If on a Winters Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winters Night a Traveller
15
Italo Calvino
Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
Hopscotch
16
Julio Cortázar
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
17
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
18
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves
19
Mark Z. Danielewski
Great Jones Street
Great Jones Street
20
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
The Man in the High Castle
21
Philip K. Dick
City of God
City of God
22
Out of Sheer Rage
Out of Sheer Rage
23
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Umberto Eco)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
24
Umberto Eco
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
25
Dave Eggers
Tours of the Black Clock (Steve Erickson)
Tours of the Black Clock
26
Steve Erickson
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
27
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
28
William Faulkner
Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Everything Is Illuminated
29
Jonathan Safran Foer
JR
JR
30
The Tunnel (William Gass)
The Tunnel
31
William Gass
The Lime Twig (John Hawkes)
The Lime Twig
32
John Hawkes
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
33
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project
34
Dispatches (Michael Herr)
Dispatches
35
Michael Herr
Skin (Shelley Jackson)
Skin
36
Shelley Jackson
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
37
Franz Kafka
Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
Book of Laughter and Forgetting
38
Milan Kundera
Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem)
Motherless Brooklyn
39
Jonathan Lethem
Notable American Women (Ben Marcus)
Notable American Women
40
Ben Marcus
Page 1 of 2
Click books you've read
Lists Similar to '61 Essential Postmodern Reads'
All Similar Lists
Newsletter · Help/Contact · Privacy · Copyright Claim   © 2025 App Spring, Inc. · This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.
Seen It - Movies & TV 
Android & iOS
Seen It is a new app from the creators of List Challenges. You can view movies and shows in one place and filter by streaming provider, genre, release year, runtime, and rating (Rotten Tomatoes, Imdb, and/or Metacritic). Also, you can track what you've seen, want to see, like, or dislike, as well as track individual seasons or episodes of shows. In addition, you can see the most watched/liked stuff amongst your friends. Learn more at SEENIT.FUN