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Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,829 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Cult fiction
539 books — 477 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda LovelaceThe Collected Poems by Sylvia PlathThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonHow We Became Human by Joy HarjoAnd Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Poetry by Women
475 books — 115 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoSophie’s World by Jostein GaarderThe Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
Uniquely Structured Books
106 books — 78 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelMiss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Large Experimental Books by Women
87 books — 71 voters

The Pythagorean by Alexander MorpheighBefore the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu KawaguchiThe Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. HarrowRecursion by Blake CrouchLife After Life by Kate Atkinson
Surrealist & Experimental Book List
28 books — 35 voters
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara ComynsThe Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora CarringtonEvent Factory by Renee GladmanCreature by Amina CainSuite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
Dorothy, A Publishing Project
35 books — 30 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonCitizen by Claudia RankineCane by Jean ToomerJazz by Toni Morrison
WHERE IS OUR BLACK AVANT GARDE?
30 books — 29 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceZ213 by Dimitris LyacosPOENA DAMNI by Dimitris LyacosTHE FIRST DEATH by Dimitris LyacosWith the People from the Bridge by Dimitris Lyacos
Alternative and Experimental Literature
47 books — 25 voters

Citizen by Claudia RankineThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoDon't Call Us Dead by Danez SmithAutobiography of Red by Anne Carson
experimental writing by women, non-binary writers & men of colour
122 books — 24 voters
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael ReedBeloved by Toni MorrisonErasure by Percival EverettOreo by Fran RossNegrophobia by Darius James
African-American Post–Civil Rights Experimental Literature
24 books — 14 voters

The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAnxiety by Danny WinterWeaving Wyrd by Elle MortI Am Schizophrenic by Kerenza RyanThe Timeline Pervert by Alvin Tung
Dark Poetry
35 books — 13 voters
The Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonRebecca by Daphne du MaurierMy Cousin Rachel by Daphne du MaurierAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books With the Best First Chapter
35 books — 11 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert SheaIn Heaven, Everything is Fine by Cameron PierceFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonVALIS by Philip K. Dick
Stoner Lit
42 books — 10 voters
The Cursed by Costi GurguJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Decryption Gambit by Doug Collins
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Fiction Part I
106 books — 10 voters

I Love Dick by Chris KrausFun Home by Alison BechdelSphinx by Anne GarrétaMan Struggling With Umbrella by P.J. MacNamaraNights by H.D.
Experimental Novels, Memoirs, Essays, Hybrid, and Other Prose
53 books — 8 voters
Tell Your Children by Alex BerensonStrappado by Karl JirgensThe Sentimental Song Book by Julia A. MooreHow to Survive Being Committed to a Mental Hospital by Doug CameronHow to Shit in the Woods by Kathleen Meyer
Orna'mental' Illnesses
208 books — 7 voters

The Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonFight Club by Chuck PalahniukLong Live Hoes by Mr. W.
Crazy First Paragraph Books
7 books — 6 voters
Guidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Promethean Horrors by Xavier Aldana ReyesAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerRavenous Mother - Two Gatherers by J.R. KendiroDecryption Gambit by Doug Collins
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Fiction Part II
84 books — 6 voters

Bad Science by Ben GoldacreAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Ravenous Mother - Two Gatherers by J.R. KendiroDecryption Gambit by Doug Collins
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Non-Fiction
104 books — 5 voters
Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardDead Until Dark by Charlaine HarrisHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Fictional Apocalypses: The World's End From Disease
57 books — 4 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyMoby-Dick; or, the Whale by Herman Melville
Books in 'Bernard-jou Iwaku'
89 books — 3 voters
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

The Golem by Gustav MeyrinkThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Terror by Dan Simmons
Artificial Beings in Fiction Not of Technological Origin
56 books — 2 voters
The Great Camouflage by Suzanne CesaireNotebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé CésaireThe Flagellants by Carlene Hatcher PoliteRhinestone Sharecropping by Bill GunnMore Brilliant Than the Sun by Kodwo Eshun
Black is a synonym for the Avant-Garde
31 books — 1 voter

It Then by Danielle CollobertRoutines, Expanded Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Horror-Poetry
2 books — 1 voter
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinThe Ark Sakura by Kōbō AbeGrendel by John GardnerThe Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
Books That Would Make Great Concept Albums
15 books — 1 voter

Girlbeast by Cecilie LindPrototype Publishing Ltd. Book of Mutter. by Kate ZambrenoPrototype Grimoire of Grimalkin. by Sascha Aurora AkhtarDialogue with a Somnambulist by Chloe AridjisPleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
Prototype Publishing
11 books — 1 voter
The Punisher by Garth EnnisDoghead by Al ColumbiaAkira, Vol. 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo
Cigarettes, piss bottles and Gun Smoke
3 books — 1 voter

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