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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
1
Kathy Acker
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 (Paul Auster)
The New York Trilogy
4
Paul Auster
The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine
5
The Atrocity Exhibition
The Atrocity Exhibition
6
Giles Goat-Boy
Giles Goat-Boy
7
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories
8
G (John Berger)
G
9
John Berger
The Loser
The Loser
10
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
11
Roberto Bolaño
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths
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 Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
15
Italo Calvino
Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar)
Hopscotch
16
Julio Cortazar
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
Dispatches
35
Skin (Shelley Jackson)
Skin
36
Shelley Jackson
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis
37
Franz Kafka
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
The 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
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