Great Experimental Fiction
Explore groundbreaking works of experimental fiction with our curated list of innovative books. Discover avant-garde narratives, unconventional styles, and literary daring from visionary authors.
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In Watermelon Sugar
by Richard Brautigan
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines different every day, and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and …
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The Dead Father
by Donald Barthelme
The dead father, who is some 3,200 cubits long, is being hauled across the landscape by means of a cable pulled by nineteen or so …
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Lost in the Funhouse
by John Barth
John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published …
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Take It Or Leave It
by Raymond Federman
The amorous adventures of a young Frenchman who has been drafted into the U. S. Army and is being shipped overseas to fight in Korea.
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
by William H. Gass
"The two novellas and three short stories ... are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America’s heartland, with …
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Blood and Guts in High School
by Kathy Acker
Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was …
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Modern Classics Ulysses
by James Joyce
'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, Observer Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the …
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Three Novels
by Samuel Beckett
Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous …
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The Subterraneans
by Jack Kerouac
Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another …
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the …
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School for Atheists
by Arno Schmidt
A previously unpublished novel in the US by the one of great German modernists.
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Vas: An Opera in Flatland, Cyborg Edition
by Steve Tomasula
Fiction. Multimedia. Art+Design by Stephen Farrell. This special, limited edition is a must-have for book collectors. The original, groundbreaking novel of identity in the biotech …
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15 Serial Killers
by Harold Jaffe
Exploring dangerous territory, Jafee uses illustrations, letters, monologues, interviews, and "unsituated dialogues" to bring to life some of the most infamous serial killers of all …
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Two Novels
by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Jealousy: "In a tropical jungle overlooking a banana plantation, a jealous husband is obsessed by his suspicion of adultery between his wife and his neighbor. …
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Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with …
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Mobile
by Michel Butor
Considered by many to be his greatest book, Michel Butor's "Mobile" is the result of the six months the author spent traveling across America. The …
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Triptych
by Claude Simon
A failed marriage, the accidental death of a child by drowning, and an incident at a summer resort are the subject matter of these three …
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Up
by Ronald Sukenick
The author himself is the main character of this book, in which he glides undisturbed from present to future, from reality to fantasy. Sometimes he's …
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Meningitis
by Iï¸ U︡riÄ TarnavsʹkyÄ
An extraordinary collection from the Ukrainian emigre writer Tarnawsky.
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Wild Life in Alaska
by Lawrence S. Telford
Memoirs of a World War I veteran's Alaskan experiences.