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Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,664 ratings — published 1996
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,901 ratings — published 1973
2666 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.22 — 49,755 ratings — published 2004
The Recognitions (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,441 ratings — published 1955
Against the Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,304 ratings — published 2006
Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,768 ratings — published 1997
The Pale King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,057 ratings — published 2011
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.57 — 621,382 ratings — published 1851
V. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,584 ratings — published 1963
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.85 — 199,930 ratings — published 2001
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.79 — 176,607 ratings — published 2000
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.95 — 34,147 ratings — published 1997
Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,332 ratings — published 2016
Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,950 ratings — published 2019
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.76 — 139,100 ratings — published 1922
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.17 — 369,452 ratings — published 1869
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.01 — 270,365 ratings — published 2004
Solenoid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,062 ratings — published 2015
Darconville's Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.28 — 617 ratings — published 1981
The Savage Detectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,772 ratings — published 1998
Women and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.14 — 318 ratings — published 1987
A Naked Singularity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,145 ratings — published 2008
The Broom of the System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,655 ratings — published 1987
The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.77 — 82 ratings — published 2014
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.10 — 942,830 ratings — published 1878
The Tunnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,032 ratings — published 1995
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,248 ratings — published 1967
Stalingrad (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,960 ratings — published 1952
Austerlitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,383 ratings — published 2001
Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 219 ratings — published 2012
Darkmotherland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.29 — 115 ratings — published 2025
Bomarzo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,126 ratings — published 1962
Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.00 — 69 ratings — published
The Inquisitors' Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,191 ratings — published 1996
Liontaming in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.44 — 54 ratings — published
A Queen in Bucks County (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.04 — 159 ratings — published 2022
Philomath: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.10 — 189 ratings — published 2021
Three Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.47 — 383 ratings — published 1972
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.86 — 128,544 ratings — published 1985
Villainy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.38 — 96 ratings — published 2021
The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,288 ratings — published 2006
La Medusa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.00 — 114 ratings — published 2008
Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.88 — 99 ratings — published 1984
Wolf Solent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.08 — 644 ratings — published 1929
A Glastonbury Romance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.24 — 477 ratings — published 1932
“You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll remember the experiences and memories you create.”
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“Of course one’s sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one’s class, race, gender, and sexual identification. … But [regarding] national character …, aside from references to a national aesthetic — literary, musical, and choreographic, there are two poles I reference: minimalist and maximalist. I love them both — the cryptic poems of Emily Dickinson folded up in tiny packets and hidden away in a box, the sparse, understated choreographies of Merce; but also the “trashy, profane and obscene” poems of Whitman and Ginsberg, [and] Martha Graham’s expressionism. I am, myself, a minimalist. But I love distortion guitar and the wild exhibitionism of so many American artists. Also, these divisions are false. Emily Dickinson, in fact, can be as trashy and obscene as the best of them! Anyway, Dickinson and Whitman are at the heart of this narrative. They are the Dancing Queen and the Guitar Hero.”
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