Best Experimental Books Ever
Innovative, unorthodox, unique, creative, odd, but still awesome books!
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"Ulysses" obviously deserves the number 1 spot



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Alix wrote: "some people are playing a little fast and loose with the word "experimental" here."
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Definitely.

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Agreed: Life of Pi? I'm actually pretty disappointed with a lot of the books on this list.

Life of Pi is more like a fairy tale than experimental. There are certain publishers people should be looking at, like FC2, Coffee House Press, and FSG.

I'd love someone to explain to me how 'Catcher in the Rye' is in any sense 'experimental'.
Another list rendered useless by being set up but not curated to remove spurious additions.

And then, some light-weights that you can polish off in an evening show up. Like, for instance "The Eyre Affair."
Any serious list of experimental fiction would include heavyweights like "Finnegans Wake," "Ulysses," "The Waves," "To the Lighthouse," "Foucault's Pendulum," Name of the Rose," "JR" "Mason & Dixon," and "Gravity's Rainbow."
Those books take work to read. Because they play with both a novel's form and language itself. Some are dang-near impossible to read. For instance, I think I'll be 70 before I finally crack "Finnegans Wake," which I've been reading off and on since my thirties.

I'd love someone to explain to me how 'Catcher in the Rye' is in any sense 'experimental'.
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The Catcher in the Rye is not exactly experimental, but it is on this list because it isn't a typical novel, for these reasons: The slang it is written in was very edgy at the time, it frequently uses passive voice, and most subtle but undoubtedly most important-the novel is entirely inseparable from its narrator. While people may dismiss Holden Caulfieldas as whiny and annoying, if you analyze his character carefully you will find that he is a unique and brilliantly written character who makes this book that would otherwise be pointless have real worth and significance. It ain't a classic for nothing.


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I also don’t see how Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, The Hunger Games, Romeo and Juliet and others make any sense on this list, and that is only the first page...

Anyone can add books to this list.