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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,121 books — 1,791 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Cult fiction
539 books — 466 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
No Urgency To Be Home by Neha R. KrishnaThe 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 Harjo
Poetry by Women
460 books — 175 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
105 books — 77 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
27 books — 34 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

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara ComynsEvent Factory by Renee GladmanThe Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora CarringtonCreature by Amina CainSuite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
Dorothy, A Publishing Project
33 books — 28 voters
Bluets by Maggie NelsonCitizen by Claudia RankineAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonDon’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia RankineThe Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Lyric Essay and Hybrid Genre
59 books — 26 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
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
45 books — 23 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
34 books — 12 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 — 10 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
39 books — 9 voters

Exercises in Style by Raymond QueneauThe Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges PerecCosmicomics by Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
...nothing but Oulipo
39 books — 8 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelSphinx by Anne GarrétaMan Struggling With Umbrella by P.J. MacNamaraNights by H.D.Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
Experimental Novels, Memoirs, Essays, Hybrid, and Other Prose
39 books — 7 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

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'
90 books — 4 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCrossings by Alex LandraginThe Timeline Pervert by Alvin TungS. by J.J. AbramsTree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Formally Experimental Print Books
12 books — 3 voters

Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonBlood on Their Hands by Bob BrinkAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerFlashforward by Robert J. SawyerThe Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Fiction Part I
102 books — 3 voters
Promethean Horrors by Xavier Aldana ReyesBlood on Their Hands by Bob BrinkAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerThe EC Archives by Al FeldsteinWeird Tales Presents by Various
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Fiction Part II
82 books — 3 voters

Bad Science by Ben GoldacreBlood on Their Hands by Bob BrinkAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerThe Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience by Michael ShermerWeird Weapons of World War II by Christopher Middleton
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Non-Fiction
102 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 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 AkhtarPrototype Publishing Ltd. Dialogue with a Somnambulist. by Chloe AridjisPleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
Prototype Publishing
11 books — 1 voter

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