Maximalism Books
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Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 104,416 ratings — published 1996
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,642 ratings — published 1973
2666 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,177 ratings — published 2004
The Recognitions (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,561 ratings — published 1955
Against the Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,421 ratings — published 2006
Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,011 ratings — published 1997
The Pale King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,315 ratings — published 2011
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.57 — 629,390 ratings — published 1851
V. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,866 ratings — published 1963
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.85 — 201,989 ratings — published 2001
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,805 ratings — published 2000
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.95 — 34,531 ratings — published 1997
Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,402 ratings — published 2016
Solenoid (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,476 ratings — published 2015
Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,112 ratings — published 2019
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.76 — 140,679 ratings — published 1922
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.17 — 374,390 ratings — published 1868
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.01 — 273,242 ratings — published 2004
Darconville's Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.28 — 625 ratings — published 1981
The Savage Detectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,080 ratings — published 1998
Women and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.14 — 327 ratings — published 1987
A Naked Singularity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,241 ratings — published 2008
The Broom of the System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,911 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 3.76 — 84 ratings — published 2014
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.11 — 956,424 ratings — published 1878
The Tunnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as maximalism)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,156 ratings — published 1995
The Lost Scrapbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.28 — 528 ratings — published 1995
Nostalgia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,674 ratings — published 1989
Lady Joker, Volume One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,882 ratings — published 1997
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,752 ratings — published 1967
Stalingrad (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,100 ratings — published 1952
Austerlitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 28,158 ratings — published 2001
Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.05 — 239 ratings — published 2012
Darkmotherland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.34 — 121 ratings — published 2025
Bomarzo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,193 ratings — published 1962
Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 72 ratings — published
The Inquisitors' Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,242 ratings — published 1996
Liontaming in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.45 — 56 ratings — published
A Queen in Bucks County (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 164 ratings — published 2022
Philomath: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.09 — 192 ratings — published 2021
Three Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.47 — 385 ratings — published 1972
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 3.86 — 130,364 ratings — published 1985
Villainy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.38 — 99 ratings — published 2021
The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,494 ratings — published 2006
La Medusa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as maximalism)
avg rating 4.00 — 120 ratings — published 2008
“You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll remember the experiences and memories you create.”
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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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