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Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,205 ratings — published 1996
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,361 ratings — published 1973
2666 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,583 ratings — published 2004
The Recognitions (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,688 ratings — published 1955
Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,221 ratings — published 1997
Against the Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,518 ratings — published 2006
V. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,123 ratings — published 1963
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,187 ratings — published 2000
The Pale King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,549 ratings — published 2011
Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,224 ratings — published 2019
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.57 — 636,487 ratings — published 1851
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.85 — 204,397 ratings — published 2001
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.95 — 34,966 ratings — published 1997
Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,448 ratings — published 2016
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.01 — 275,958 ratings — published 2004
Solenoid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,848 ratings — published 2015
Darconville's Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.27 — 633 ratings — published 1981
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,950 ratings — published 1922
Women and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.14 — 330 ratings — published 1987
A Naked Singularity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,314 ratings — published 2008
The Broom of the System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.85 — 25,163 ratings — published 1987
Maximalist Novel, The: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.74 — 86 ratings — published 2014
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.17 — 378,822 ratings — published 1868
The Tunnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,274 ratings — published 1995
The Maximalist: Colorful Interiors for Bold Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.73 — 67 ratings — published
The Lost Scrapbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.27 — 541 ratings — published 1995
Lady Joker, Volume One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,928 ratings — published 1997
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 24,263 ratings — published 1967
Austerlitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 28,835 ratings — published 2001
Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.07 — 254 ratings — published 2012
Darkmotherland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.30 — 127 ratings — published 2025
Bomarzo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,311 ratings — published 1962
Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 73 ratings — published
The Inquisitors' Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,279 ratings — published 1996
Liontaming in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.45 — 58 ratings — published
A Queen in Bucks County (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.02 — 167 ratings — published 2022
Philomath: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.10 — 200 ratings — published 2021
Three Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.47 — 390 ratings — published 1972
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.86 — 132,064 ratings — published 1985
Villainy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.37 — 101 ratings — published 2021
The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,726 ratings — published 2006
La Medusa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.01 — 121 ratings — published 2008
Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.86 — 105 ratings — published 1984
Wolf Solent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.07 — 676 ratings — published 1929
“I'm an innate maximalist.”
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“More isn’t just more. It’s a statement. It’s personality. It’s an electric jolt. Why blend in when you can burst onto the scene with something so unmistakable, so uniquely chaotic, that no one can ignore you?”
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