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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
House of Leaves
Slaughterhouse-Five
Pale Fire
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
The Princess Bride
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Breakfast of Champions
Cloud Atlas
Redshirts
The Name of the Rose
Sophie’s World
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Don Quixote
The Neverending Story
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Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldA Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo
Stories For Book Lovers
8,343 books — 8,383 voters

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan             MooreThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan             MooreIt Lives in The Basement by Sahara FoleyThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 by Alan             MooreThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan             Moore
Crossover Fiction
164 books — 45 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
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Vladimir Hlocky
A memory is just an imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire, can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too
Vladimir Hlocky, Journeys Beyond Earth

Jean Baudrillard
The end of this history saw the banality of art merge with the banality of the real world - Duchamp's act, with its automatic transference of the object, being the inaugural (and ironic) gesture in this process. The transference of all reality into aesthetics, which has become one of the dimensions of generalized exchange... All this under the banner of a simultaneous liberation of art and the real world. This 'liberation' has in fact consisted in indexing the two to each other - a chiasmus leth ...more
Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

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