Postmodern

The term postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post-World War II literature (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas (that is, reforming society and advancing knowledge) implicit in Modernist literature.

The Crying of Lot 49
Slaughterhouse-Five
White Noise
Infinite Jest
Gravity’s Rainbow
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
House of Leaves
Catch-22
Pale Fire
V.
Breakfast of Champions
Cloud Atlas
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Cat’s Cradle
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
White Noise by Don DeLilloThere Is No Antimemetics Division by qntmPersephone in the Late Anthropocene by Megan GrumblingHigh-Rise by J.G. BallardThe Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
Existential Horror
23 books — 2 voters
Framed & Hunted by Edward        WilliamsMean Spirited by Nick  RobertsA Very Bad Thing by J.T. EllisonThe Witches of Scotland by Steven P. AitchisonWayward Spirits by Wendy Wang
Transgressive and Bizzaro Fiction
321 books — 131 voters

Ethereal by Phillip BainbridgeSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusPhilosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenThe Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun Tzu
books with ‘philosophy’ in title
255 books — 29 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Postmodernist Literature
3 books — 1 voter

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiGood Omens by Terry PratchettInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Footnotes!
106 books — 77 voters
Точка нуль by Artem ChekhХто ти такий? by Artem ChekhМузей покинутих секретів by Oksana ZabuzhkoІнтернат by Serhiy ZhadanГемінґвей нічого не знає by Artur Dron
Ukrainian modern fiction
51 books — 10 voters

Philip K. Dick
“ No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up. ”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

David Harvey
“ The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times. ...more ”
― David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

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