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And We Remained
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Asad Ali Junaid (Goodreads Author)
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Vera & Linus
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The New World
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La muerte de Artemio Cruz
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Sisyphus, Outdone.: Theatres of the Catastrophal
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The Anonymous Man
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Vincent L. Scarsella (Goodreads Author)
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Chatterton
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Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
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H(A)PPY
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Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)
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Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)
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Le sei reincarnazioni di Ximen Nao
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Internet Crusader
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The Sky Conducting
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Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Lilac in Leather: A Tale of Forsythia, Bedbugs, Faded Cotton & Time
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13 rue Thérèse
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Elena Mauli Shapiro (Goodreads Author)
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Juego de Cartas
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Revolver
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Matt Kindt (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
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History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
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Brad Meltzer (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 3,708 ratings
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ABC3D
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Terra Nostra
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Love Virtually
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Eating Animals
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 80,422 ratings
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The Black River Chronicles: Level One (Black River Academy, #1)
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David Tallerman (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason
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Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
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Ada Palmer (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 15,468 ratings
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Gadsby
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2.78 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 51,922 ratings
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Infinite Jest
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4.47 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
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3.92 avg rating — 1,610 ratings
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Decoded
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3.86 avg rating — 8,643 ratings
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Tres tristes tigres
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3.91 avg rating — 2,194 ratings
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The Fun We've Had
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Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella
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Stephen Moles (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Personal Injuries (Lawyers Gone Bad, #2)
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Vincent L. Scarsella (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
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3.69 avg rating — 227,790 ratings
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The Cheese Monkeys
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3.75 avg rating — 5,929 ratings
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Flavor of the Week
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Tucker Shaw (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 860 ratings
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Cent mille milliards de poèmes
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4.46 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Redshirts
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 116,475 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
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3.71 avg rating — 71,118 ratings
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The Year of Secret Assignments (Ashbury/Brookfield, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 18,703 ratings
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Six Trips in Two Directions
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Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems
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4.05 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Ibid: A Life
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3.22 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Murder
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If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
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Matthea Harvey (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Love, Chloe
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Alessandra Torre (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 9,085 ratings
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Feeling Sorry for Celia (Ashbury/Brookfield, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 10,744 ratings
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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
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Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 564,440 ratings
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Where You Are: A Collection of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost
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Will Gompertz (Introduction)
3.98 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Verruca Music
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Stuart Estell (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
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Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
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4.17 avg rating — 5,209 ratings
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A Little White Shadow
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4.12 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Snowflake
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Walking on Glass
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The Wake
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Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
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Alicia Cook (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 5,730 ratings
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Complicity
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Albert Angelo
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Mauve Desert
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Molly And The Cyclops
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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The Supernatural Enhancements
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
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Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle
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Lives of the Monster Dogs
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The Iceberg
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The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
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3.99 avg rating — 127,597 ratings
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A Void
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Adverbs
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The Albertine Workout
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The Lonely Furrow (Suffolk, #3)
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Monster
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Quartet for the End of Time
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Gad's Hall / The Haunting of Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1-2)
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Uno Kudo Vol. 2: Naked (Uno Kudo, #2)
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The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
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Entrances & Exits
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Scent of Cloves
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Michael Martone
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Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba
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The Lost Queen
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How Far to Bethlehem?
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Uno Kudo Vol. 1: Ripped (Uno Kudo, #1)
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The Life and Times of Major Fiction
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Lomonosovin moottori
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The Age of Wire and String
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An Abridged History of the Construction of the Railway Line Between Garve, Ullapool and Lochinver; and other pertinent matters; Being the Professional Journal and Regular Chronicle of Alexander Auchmuty Seth Kininmonth
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Neuromaani
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The Mongoliad: Book One (Foreworld, #1)
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The Mongoliad: Book Two (Foreworld, #2)
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The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Double or Nothing
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Umbrella
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
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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?
Thanks, Lobstergirl, I haven't read it myself. Do you recommend I remove it?
Yes, I don't really think it's innovative in terms of design or structure. It's a good book though.
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.
You definitely can add all the comics from Marc Antoine Mathieu like the Julius Corentin Acquefaques series.Unflattening from Nick Sousanis , which is a phD thesis on comics in form of a comic book, my preferred one.
Un cadeau , which is a comic book you unfold that is destructible
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