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Crossings
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Nets
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
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Ann VanderMeer (Editor)
3.59 avg rating — 794 ratings
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The Interrogative Mood
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
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Douglas Coupland (Goodreads Author)
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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Invisible Monsters Remix
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 150,896 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey
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Zachary Mason (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,515 ratings
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Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)
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Amie Kaufman (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 81,068 ratings
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Exercices de style
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Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)
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Amie Kaufman (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 57,515 ratings
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Beowulf
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
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3.71 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Naked Lunch
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Hippolyte’s Island: An Illustrated Novel
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3.68 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales
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Helene Cardona (Goodreads Author)
4.77 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Arafat Mountain
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Mike Kleine (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings
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La casa verde
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Horrorstör
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Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 122,626 ratings
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| 123 |
Last Love in Constantinople: A Tarot Novel for Divination
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3.97 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
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| 124 |
Enchanted Islands
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Allison Amend (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
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Train Man
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3.67 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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| 126 |
U.S.!: Songs and Stories
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3.98 avg rating — 495 ratings
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| 126 |
Oak-Mot
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4.21 avg rating — 194 ratings
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| 126 |
Spring Water
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John Fitzgerald (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 196,
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| 129 |
Thru
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3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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| 129 |
I Remember
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4.17 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
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| 129 |
Rat Catching
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4.24 avg rating — 265 ratings
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| 129 |
My Pet Serial Killer
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Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 172 ratings
score: 194,
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| 129 |
Telling Time by the Shadows
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John Fitzgerald (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 194,
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| 129 |
What We See When We Read
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3.70 avg rating — 5,952 ratings
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The Bridge
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3.87 avg rating — 12,685 ratings
score: 193,
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| 136 |
Lexicon
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Max Barry (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 40,270 ratings
score: 192,
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| 137 |
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
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Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 222,373 ratings
score: 190,
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Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Worker
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4.38 avg rating — 187 ratings
score: 189,
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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3.75 avg rating — 173,860 ratings
score: 189,
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Cain's Jawbone
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3.77 avg rating — 3,208 ratings
score: 188,
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The Cave of Time (Choose Your Own Adventure, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
score: 186,
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| 142 |
Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh
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3.80 avg rating — 305 ratings
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| 142 |
Personal Effects: Dark Art
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3.55 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Kapow!
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3.33 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Sophie’s World
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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
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3.94 avg rating — 2,308 ratings
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QualityLand (QualityLand, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 26,113 ratings
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| 148 |
The Loser
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4.02 avg rating — 12,913 ratings
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| 148 |
Operation Red Jericho (The Guild of Specialists, #1)
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Joshua Mowll (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
score: 182,
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MIND MGMT, Volume One: The Manager
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4.01 avg rating — 4,138 ratings
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That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
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3.93 avg rating — 45,617 ratings
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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
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Floating Dragon
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3.82 avg rating — 12,718 ratings
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The Canterville Ghost
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3.88 avg rating — 70,292 ratings
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Endless Short Story
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3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Golden Gate
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Dictee
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4.04 avg rating — 3,992 ratings
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The Great Fire of London: A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations
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4.06 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Luminaries
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The Gospel of Lie: A Grieving Christian Searches the Bible for a New Jesus
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3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Rape of the Lock
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I Live Here
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Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Anomaly)
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Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
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This Side of Paradise
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The Call
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The Wide Game (Harmony, Indiana, #1)
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Michael West (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 231 ratings
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| 162 |
Creating Monsters
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Christopher Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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The Fig Orchard
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Layla Fiske (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Map of the Sky
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Félix J. Palma (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,206 ratings
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Antigonick
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Anne Carson (Translator)
4.33 avg rating — 3,326 ratings
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Navigatio
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Patrick Holland (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Visual Time Traveller: 500 Years of History, Art and Science in 100 Unique Designs
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Dead Reckoning
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M. Cid D'Angelo (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Scorch Atlas
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Haunted
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 110,883 ratings
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Three Wells of the Sea (Three Wells of the Sea, #1)
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Terry Madden (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 116 ratings
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La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (Marcus Goldman, #1)
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Ill Will
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Dan Chaon (Goodreads Author)
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The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
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Every You, Every Me
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 8,120 ratings
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Timing the Infinite
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Nathaniel Schmeling (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #1)
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Emil Ferris (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 26,647 ratings
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The Marvels
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The Western Wind
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Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 406,848 ratings
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
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Starfish Rules.
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Conceal Reveal: The Space between Entrepreneurs and the Defense Industry
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The Christmas Mystery
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Nibiru
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Build Your House Around My Body
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The Sluts
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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From Rebel To Radical Innovator: Leading The Transformation Through Circularity
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Albin Kaelin (Goodreads Author)
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Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days
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Diary of an Amateur Photographer : A Mystery
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Jealousy
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Pygmy
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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Why isn't the book Night Fim on this list? It should definitely be added!
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Night Film? Agreed, it looks terrific! I haven't read it yet, but I've added it to the list. You can add books, too, and/or vote for them/others to move them up in the order. Thanks for mentioning Night Film!
I haven't actually read these books yet, but they certainly have intriguing design. There's Tristano, a novel that is printed in different order every copy, and also 10,000 Ghost Stories.It doesn't look like Tristano is all that well received, but that's not a criteria, is it?
Well received or actually being good is not a criteria--I imagine this to be a list of books pushing boundaries and often those are failed experiments (in terms of final impact) yet still great opportunities for others to study them and learn from them. Thanks for the comment!
I'm not sure "The Road" really pushed boundaries, at least at the time it was published. Maybe it would have in the 19th century. What does it do besides not use quotation marks for dialogue?
Yeah, I've been very much meaning to read it, but...being already familiar with the story it's hard to get excited about it. Thanks for the tip! I'll remove it from the list.
Oh, looks like the joke's on me--I can only remove the books I voted for, which probably still only removes the vote I contributed. So it looks like this book is here to stay. Working on an experimental fiction course, though, and I'll definitely remove it from the list of works for students. Thanks again!
Not sure that Eating animals by Jonathan Safran Foer belongs on this list... I haven't read it though, so perhaps it does.
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