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House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.09 — 198,191 ratings — published 2000
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.02 — 110,920 ratings — published 1979
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.75 — 173,957 ratings — published 2017
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,240 ratings — published 1959
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,661 ratings — published 2013
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.10 — 96,373 ratings — published 1972
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,179 ratings — published 1962
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,289 ratings — published 1922
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.20 — 48,652 ratings — published 1963
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.14 — 53,044 ratings — published 1931
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.01 — 266,478 ratings — published 2004
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,474,451 ratings — published 1969
Wittgenstein’s Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,261 ratings — published 1988
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.01 — 47,870 ratings — published 1973
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.25 — 100,789 ratings — published 1996
Exercises in Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,864 ratings — published 1947
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.39 — 159,949 ratings — published 2019
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.00 — 765,342 ratings — published 1962
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,579 ratings — published 1983
The Fifty Year Sword (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.59 — 6,181 ratings — published 2005
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.05 — 56,924 ratings — published 2009
Multiple Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,751 ratings — published 2014
The Mezzanine (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.82 — 10,329 ratings — published 1988
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,582 ratings — published 1939
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.73 — 22,984 ratings — published 1767
Life: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,084 ratings — published 1978
The Unfortunates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,148 ratings — published 1969
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.83 — 21,591 ratings — published 2007
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.81 — 51,838 ratings — published 2015
One Rainy Day in May (The Familiar, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,204 ratings — published 2015
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.76 — 59,159 ratings — published 2014
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.94 — 57,862 ratings — published 2001
Only Revolutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.23 — 5,867 ratings — published 2006
Tree of Codes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,794 ratings — published 2010
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,163 ratings — published 1969
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.81 — 213,075 ratings — published 1927
This Is Not a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,598 ratings — published 2001
The Employees (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.64 — 27,157 ratings — published 2018
Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.26 — 21,677 ratings — published 1973
No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.55 — 54,910 ratings — published 2021
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,031 ratings — published 1951
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.86 — 86,342 ratings — published 1987
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.69 — 96,583 ratings — published 1966
How to be Both (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.66 — 27,378 ratings — published 2014
Dictee (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,994 ratings — published 1982
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,039 ratings — published 1961
Eunoia (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,778 ratings — published 1999
Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as experimental)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,816 ratings — published 2019
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as experimental)
avg rating 4.25 — 35,960 ratings — published 1998
“It's not so complicated to have a system of reward and punishment.
(In other words, if somebody is playing well, his card rewards him/her. If somebody is doing awful stuff, punish him/her.)”
― How to Talk to Anyone
(In other words, if somebody is playing well, his card rewards him/her. If somebody is doing awful stuff, punish him/her.)”
― How to Talk to Anyone
“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.”
― The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality
― The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality












