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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
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Thomas Pynchon
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
2
Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
3
David Foster Wallace
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
4
Thomas Pynchon
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
5
Italo Calvino
White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise
6
Don Delillo
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
7
Joseph Heller
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
8
Cormac McCarthy
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
9
Vladimir Nabokov
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
10
William S. Burroughs
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves
11
Mark Z. Danielewski
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
V.
12
Thomas Pynchon
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
13
Vladimir Nabokov
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
14
Hunter S. Thompson
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
15
William Gaddis
Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld
16
Don Delillo
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths
17
Jorge Luis Borges
Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon)
Inherent Vice
18
Thomas Pynchon
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
19
John Kennedy Toole
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
20
Samuel Beckett
Libra (Don Delillo)
Libra
21
Don Delillo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
22
Haruki Murakami
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
Ubik
23
Philip K. Dick
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
24
Umberto Eco
The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
The Sot-Weed Factor
25
John Barth
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
26
Jorge Luis Borges
City of Glass (Paul Auster)
City of Glass
27
Paul Auster
Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar)
Hopscotch
28
Julio Cortazar
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
29
Kurt Vonnegut
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
30
Salman Rushdie
Bleeding Edge (Thomas Pynchon)
Bleeding Edge
31
Thomas Pynchon
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road
32
Cormac McCarthy
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
33
Hermann Hesse
The Tunnel (William Gass)
The Tunnel
34
William Gass
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec)
Life: A User's Manual
35
Georges Perec
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
36
David Mitchell
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fight Club
37
Chuck Palahniuk
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
38
John Fowles
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
The Third Policeman
39
Flann O'Brien
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
40
Junot Díaz
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