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Genres

Metafictional


Metafictional Books

Pale Fire
House of Leaves
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Harold & Hog Pretend For Real! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!, #6)
Z Is for Moose
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The Monster at the End of this Book
Midnight’s Children
Atonement
The Book Thief
A Tale for the Time Being
The Art of Detection (Kate Martinelli, #5)
Lolita
The Land of Laughs
A Short Stay in Hell
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Lists

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
446 books — 584 voters
The Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book within a book
81 books — 69 voters

The Other Side of the Story by Marian KeyesSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.I Thirst by Gina Marinello-SweeneyHallucinating Foucault by Patricia DunckerChapter & hearse by anne-schulman
Writerly books (fiction about the experience of being a writer)
7 books — 4 voters