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Novels With No Plot Whatsoever

Now these aren't just books with loosely-connected stories, or a series of vignettes a la the picaresque style. These books not only have no story arc, but there is little character progression or change within the characters. Instead, these books explore life through anecdotes, analysis, opinion, interjection, and a lack of concrete structure. These are novels that you swim in; you explore like an open world.
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Blood and Guts in High School (Kathy Acker)
Blood and Guts in High School
1
Kathy Acker
Cane
Cane
2
Dept. of Speculation (Jenny Offill)
Dept. of Speculation
3
Jenny Offill
Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello
4
The Farmacist (Ashley Farmer)
The Farmacist
5
Ashley Farmer
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
6
James Joyce
Flaubert's Parrot
Flaubert's Parrot
7
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Gilead
8
Marilynne Robinson
The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star
9
How Should a Person Be? (Sheila Heti)
How Should a Person Be?
10
Sheila Heti
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities
11
Italo Calvino
Joan Makes History (Kate Grenville)
Joan Makes History
12
Kate Grenville
A Journal of the Plague Year (Daniel Defoe)
A Journal of the Plague Year
13
Daniel Defoe
JR
JR
14
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
15
Laurence Sterne
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec)
Life: A User's Manual
16
Georges Perec
The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine
17
Montauk (Max Frisch)
Montauk
18
Max Frisch
My Struggle (Karl Ove Knausgaard)
My Struggle
19
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
20
William S. Burroughs
The Names
The Names
21
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Notes From Underground
22
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (J.D. Salinger)
Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
23
J.D. Salinger
Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights
24
Speedboat
Speedboat
25
This Is Not a Novel (David Markson)
This Is Not a Novel
26
David Markson
The Unfortunates
The Unfortunates
27
Wittgenstein's Mistress (David Markson)
Wittgenstein's Mistress
28
David Markson
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