List of postmodern novels

Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:

Early postmodern novels

• At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
• The Third Policeman (1941, published 1967) by Flann O'Brien
• The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
• The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes[1]
• The Ginger Man (1955) by J. P. Donleavy
• The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
• On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac[2]
• The Comforters (1957) by Muriel Spark
• The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
• Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs[3]

1960s

• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller[4]
• The Lime Twig (1961) by John Hawkes
• Mother Night (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
• Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov[5]
• The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick[6]
• V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
• Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Hopscotch (Cortázar novel) (1963) by Julio Cortázar[7]
• Albert Angelo (1964) by B. S. Johnson
• In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote[8]
• Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon[9]
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez[10]
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin[11]
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut[12]
• Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) by Ishmael Reed
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles[13]
• Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov

1970s

• Moscow-Petushki (1970) by Venedikt Yerofeyev
• The Erl-King (1970) by Michel Tournier
• The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard
• The Obscene Bird of Night (1970) by José Donoso
• Another Roadside Attraction (1971) by Tom Robbins
• Double or Nothing (1971) by Raymond Federman
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson[14]
• The Monster at the End of This Book (1971) by Jon Stone
• Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
• Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ishmael Reed
• Chimera (1972) by John Barth
• Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard[15]
• Black Prince (1973) by Iris Murdoch
• Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon[16]
• The Magus (1973) by John Fowles
• Alphabetical Africa (1974) by Walter Abish
• The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974) by Ishmael Reed
• Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross[17]
• J R (1975) by William Gaddis
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme
• Dhalgren (1975) by Samuel R. Delany
• Options (1975) by Robert Sheckley
• The Alteration (1976) by Kingsley Amis
• American Splendor (1976-2008) by Harvey Pekar[18]
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) by Tom Robbins
• Almost Transparent Blue (1976) by Ryu Murakami
• Ratner's Star (1976) by Don DeLillo
• Ceremony (1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Monkey Grip (1977) by Helen Garner
• A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick[19]
• The Public Burning (1977), by Robert Coover
• Life: A User's Manual (1978) by Georges Perec
• It's Me, Eddie (1979) by Eduard Limonov
• The Twyborn Affair (1979) by Patrick White
• If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino[20]
• Mulligan Stew (1979) by Gilbert Sorrentino
• How German Is It (1980) by Walter Abish
• Coin Locker Babies (1980) by Ryu Murakami
• Nikopol Trilogy (1980–1993) by Enki Bilal
• Kindred (1979) by Octavia Butler

1980s

• Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
• Still Life with Woodpecker (1980) by Tom Robbins
• Between Dog and Wolf (1980) by Sasha Sokolov
• VALIS (1981) by Philip K. Dick
• Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme
• Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) by Alasdair Gray
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982) by Philip K. Dick
• Mantissa (1982) by John Fowles
• Waterland (1983) by Graham Swift
• The Norm (1983) by Vladimir Sorokin
• The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco[21]
• Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter[22]
• Jitterbug Perfume (1984) by Tom Robbins
• Blood and Guts in High School (1984) by Kathy Acker
• Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) by Milorad Pavić
• Democracy (1984) by Joan Didion
• Perfume (1985) by Patrick Süskind
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson
• Less Than Zero (1985) by Bret Easton Ellis
• The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster[23]
• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo[24]
• A Maggot (1985) by John Fowles
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami
• The Infinite Deadlock (1985–1988) by Dmitry Galkovsky
• Maus (1986) by Art Spiegelman[25]
• Watchmen (1986–87) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons[26]
• The Well (1986) by Elizabeth Jolley
• Memoirs of Many in One (1986) by Patrick White
• Moon Tiger (1987) by Penelope Lively
• Women and Men (1987) by Joseph McElroy
• Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison[27]
• The Mezzanine (1988) by Nicholson Baker
• Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco
• Braschi's Empire of Dreams (1988) by Giannina Braschi
• Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson[28]
• Tracks (1988) by Louise Erdrich
• London Fields (1989) by Martin Amis

1990s

• The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie
• My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1990) by Mark Leyner
• Almanac of the Dead (1991) by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Omon Ra (1991) by Victor Pelevin
• The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers
• American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis[29]
• What a Carve Up! (1991) by Jonathan Coe
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland[30]
• Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
• Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike
• Vurt (1993) by Jeff Noon
• A Frolic of His Own (1994) by William Gaddis
• Astronautilía Hvězdoplavba (1995) by Jan Křesadlo
• Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers
• The Dog King (1995) by Christoph Ransmayr
• Reservation Blues (1995) by Sherman Alexie
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami[31]
• The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara
• The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass
• The First Death (1996) by Dimitris Lyacos
• Chapayev and Void (1996) by Victor Pelevin
• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace[32]
• Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
• Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo[33]
• In the Miso Soup (1997) by Ryu Murakami
• Transmetropolitan (1997-2002) by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
• Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) by Giannina Braschi
• Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis
• Zero Degree (1998) by Charu Nivedita
• Koolaids: The Art of War (1998) by Rabih Alameddine
• My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk
• Generation "П" (1999) by Victor Pelevin
• The Rings of Saturn (1999) by W. G. Sebald
• Q (1999) by Luther Blissett
• Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem[34]
• Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami

2000s

• White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith[35]
• Morning and Evening (2000) by Jon Fosse
• House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood
• Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
• Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer[36]
• You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers
• Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami
• VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell[37]
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon[38]
• 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño[39]
• After Dark (2004) by Haruki Murakami
• On Beauty (2005) by Zadie Smith
• Lunar Park (2005) by Bret Easton Ellis
• Against the Day (2005) by Thomas Pynchon
• Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006) by Heather O'Neill
• What Is the What (2006) by Dave Eggers
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon[40]
• The Last Novel (2007) by David Markson
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Díaz
• The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara
• The City & the City (2009) by China Miéville
• Generation A (2009) by Douglas Coupland
• Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon[41]
• Z213: Exit (2009) by Dimitris Lyacos
• 1Q84 (2009–2010) by Haruki Murakami

2010s

• Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen
• There But For The(2011) by Ali Smith
• United States of Banana (2011) by Giannina Braschi
• Home (2012) by Toni Morrison
• Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon
• Taipei (2013) by Tao Lin
• A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James
• With the People from the Bridge (2014) by Dimitris Lyacos
• The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead[42]
• Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders

See also

• List of postmodern critics
• List of postmodern writers
• Postmodern literature
• Postmodern art
• Postmodern film
• Graphic novel
• Criticism of postmodernism

External links

• Postmodern Fiction in the New Millennium - The Reading Experience
• Postmodernism and the Postmodern novel
• Postmodern Novels and Novelists|Literary Theory and Criticism

References

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4. AMST 272 American Postmodern Fiction 2019-20 —Catalog
5. 61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list|Jacket Copy|Los Angeles Times
6. Philip K Dick: Exhirlaration and Terror of the Postmodern on JSTOR
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9. The Fiction of Postmodern America: Multicultural & Intercultural Perspectives
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11. 6 Postmodern Novels that Should Be Comics - Book Riot
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14. 6 Postmodern Novels that Should Be Comics - Book Riot
15. James G. Ballard's "Crash" and Postmodernization of the Dystopian Novel on JSTOR
16. An Essential Postmodern Reading List - Flavorwire
17. Danzy Senna: An overlooked classic about the comedy of race
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21. Literature in the labyrinth: Classical myth and postmodern multicursal fiction
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29. American Psycho: A Post-Modern Horror|The Artifice
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32. The Sixty-One Essential Postmodern Reads|The New Yorker
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