3.86 avg rating — 198,214 ratings

"A jigsaw of a novel"

3.84 avg rating — 195 ratings

"stream of conscientiousness-come-stream of disjointed narrative with over 450 characters"

3.93 avg rating — 4,470 ratings

"Neither porn nor graphic, this is proper readable alternative modern literature"

3.84 avg rating — 14,463 ratings

"'forget the story', `enjoy the language' prose poem type book"

3.74 avg rating — 276 ratings

"Magical surrealism in extreme"

3.84 avg rating — 11,468 ratings

"Quirky, seedy literary sort of Cabaret in late 1920s German"

4.02 avg rating — 6,854 ratings

" the style is dense, difficult, deep, imaginative, philosophical and rather surreal"

4.07 avg rating — 179,849 ratings

"A modern non-religion philosophical text"

3.39 avg rating — 250 ratings

"200 pages with about 200 short chapters"

3.99 avg rating — 48,544 ratings

"A jigsaw of a novel"

3.42 avg rating — 453 ratings

"Mozart's Symphony 41 in words (read it to the beat etc)"

3.14 avg rating — 137 ratings

"a sort of stream of conciousness reflective word picture with the occasional E A Poe poem extract"

3.61 avg rating — 244 ratings

"One sentence, adult, 260 pages."

3.99 avg rating — 1,338 ratings

"5 short tales with only the author's dream/nightmare like style connecting them"

3.53 avg rating — 13,560 ratings

"Classic, proper 'surreal' writing "

4.20 avg rating — 50,137 ratings

"Read each chapter in any order or as the list suggests"

3.90 avg rating — 2,260 ratings

"Cuban Ulysses"

3.95 avg rating — 118 ratings

"Prelude, testimonies, parallel stories then a couple of post scripts explaining things"

3.98 avg rating — 5,789 ratings

"the language is detailed, magical realismesque, retrospective and in places dream-like "

2.79 avg rating — 340 ratings

"Original story without using any words with an E in it"

3.74 avg rating — 3,887 ratings

"Original story without using any words with an E in it (even in translation)"

3.06 avg rating — 4,626 ratings

"3 Shorts in the style of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso"

3.89 avg rating — 1,013 ratings

"Difficult, over 400 hundred pages of tight spacing and small font with frequent footnotes being almost as long as the main text with even smaller font"

3.76 avg rating — 139,532 ratings

"The obvious choice"

3.50 avg rating — 1,096 ratings

"7x3=21 loosely joined snap shots of an imagined revolution"

4.15 avg rating — 1,220 ratings

"This is a surreal, gothic, poetic, brutal, imaginative, unreadable non-story of a book"

3.81 avg rating — 78,684 ratings

"Stories constrained to 1D and 2D i.e. life on a plane or line"

3.97 avg rating — 1,391 ratings

"One of the original magical realism books"

3.70 avg rating — 652 ratings

"Another proper 'surreal' novel"

3.25 avg rating — 40 ratings

"Prose-poem"

3.88 avg rating — 257 ratings

"short surreal episodes, numerous diagrams and sketches, odd text layouts, frequent foot notes, parallel lives"

4.05 avg rating — 13,212 ratings

"Same short tale 99 different styles."

4.17 avg rating — 10,349 ratings

"Based on the knight move problem in chess for 64 rooms in a hotel. Lots of word play too - like a page of story where words are chosen so an e progress diagonally down the page at each line"

3.91 avg rating — 585 ratings

"It has it all. Difficult to describe - see my review"

3.83 avg rating — 24,494 ratings

"Basically no commas. Good fictionalisation told by Ned himself"

3.92 avg rating — 631 ratings

"Half the book is 50 prologues. The novel is a mix of character types, the author and the reader"

3.43 avg rating — 10,250 ratings

"Standard novel (erotically charge & stepmother goes too far with her young stepson) but interspersed with classic paintings from around 1400-1600"

3.70 avg rating — 8,222 ratings

"Standard novella but the avant-garde author provides some sparsely draw pen sketches of many scenes."

3.68 avg rating — 13,723 ratings

"Unreadable. (Though the experts would disagree)"

4.05 avg rating — 59,822 ratings

"Entirely told by the exchange of letters."

4.15 avg rating — 1,864 ratings

"How to die - the way to reflect. Fantastic prose-poem"

3.95 avg rating — 261 ratings

"Accessible surrealist novel - suicide"

4.02 avg rating — 49,140 ratings

"A V2 rocket in the style of Finnegans Wake."