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House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.09 — 214,154 ratings — published 2000
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,429 ratings — published 1979
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,997 ratings — published 1959
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.74 — 186,142 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.09 — 102,905 ratings — published 1972
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,082 ratings — published 2013
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,669 ratings — published 1962
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,969 ratings — published 1922
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.19 — 51,644 ratings — published 1963
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.14 — 57,169 ratings — published 1931
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.01 — 276,008 ratings — published 2004
Exercises in Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,532 ratings — published 1947
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,376 ratings — published 1973
Wittgenstein’s Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,723 ratings — published 1988
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,530,881 ratings — published 1969
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,227 ratings — published 1996
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.37 — 171,317 ratings — published 2019
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,897 ratings — published 1983
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.00 — 793,869 ratings — published 1962
The Fifty Year Sword (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.59 — 6,312 ratings — published 2005
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,933 ratings — published 1939
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.03 — 61,746 ratings — published 2009
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,402 ratings — published 2007
Multiple Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,185 ratings — published 2014
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,437 ratings — published 1767
Life: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,643 ratings — published 1978
Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.25 — 29,214 ratings — published 1973
The Mezzanine (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,021 ratings — published 1988
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.81 — 226,989 ratings — published
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.78 — 58,831 ratings — published 2015
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.75 — 65,684 ratings — published 2014
The Unfortunates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,174 ratings — published 1969
The Employees (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.62 — 36,514 ratings — published 2018
Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,228 ratings — published 2019
How to be Both (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.66 — 28,580 ratings — published 2014
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,533 ratings — published 1969
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.94 — 62,812 ratings — published 2001
Only Revolutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.23 — 5,969 ratings — published 2006
This Is Not a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,645 ratings — published 2001
No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.55 — 58,300 ratings — published 2021
One Rainy Day in May (The Familiar, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,286 ratings — published 2015
Tree of Codes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,819 ratings — published 2010
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,930 ratings — published 1998
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,511 ratings — published 1984
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,255 ratings — published 1952
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,327 ratings — published 1965
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,447 ratings — published 1987
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.42 — 7,239 ratings — published 1961
A Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,980 ratings — published 1969
“At half past three in the morning I woke up. And immediately elastic I
jumped out of bed. I came to write you. I mean: be. Now it’s half past five. I
want nothing: I am pure. I don’t wish this solitude on you. But I myself am
in the creating fog. Lucid darkness, luminous stupidity.”
― Água Viva
jumped out of bed. I came to write you. I mean: be. Now it’s half past five. I
want nothing: I am pure. I don’t wish this solitude on you. But I myself am
in the creating fog. Lucid darkness, luminous stupidity.”
― Água Viva
“That's total mech waste. I'm glad I trusted my gut and didn't hand this thing over to the Order. I'm glad I sat with this commonplace for so many units. I'm not sure if I've ever believed in the transmogrification. I'm not too sure if I cared very much about this book at all. But I think if I had handed this book over to the Order, Mr. Smalls and his cronies would have burned this book. Even if I am not sure about the transmogrification of the data I can see now so many units later so much of Pop and Mabel’s cryptz in here. I think it's true what they say about youth thinking they’ve got it all figured out. I'm glad I attempted as hard as I could to stave off rigidity. So many of my fellow etceterists found their little box, climbed inside, had the box taped shut from the outside with the help of peer reinforcement, taped it from the inside too, parceled themselves off, and lost themselves in the realm of the archival sublime.”
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