List of postmodern novels
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Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:
The list is based on a copy of the corresponding Dec 2019 Wikipedia page [1]
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
- The Third Policeman (1941, published 1967) by Flann O'Brien
- The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
- The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes
- The Ginger Man (1955) by J. P. Donleavy
- The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
- The Comforters (1957) by Muriel Spark
- The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
- Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
- Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
- The Lime Twig (1961) by John Hawkes
- Mother Night (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
- Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
- V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
- Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut
- Hopscotch (Cortázar novel) (1963) by Julio Cortázar
- Niembsch oder Der Stillstand (1964) by Peter Härtling
- Albert Angelo (1964) by B. S. Johnson
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
- The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
- Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) by Ishmael Reed
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov
- Moscow-Petushki (1970) by Venedikt Yerofeyev
- The Erl-King (1970) by Michel Tournier
- The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard
- The Obscene Bird of Night (1970) by José Donoso
- Another Roadside Attraction (1971) by Tom Robbins
- Double or Nothing (1971) by Raymond Federman
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Monster at the End of This Book (1971) by Jon Stone
- Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
- Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ishmael Reed
- Chimera (1972) by John Barth
- Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard
- Black Prince (1973) by Iris Murdoch
- Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut
- Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
- The Magus (1973) by John Fowles
- Alphabetical Africa (1974) by Walter Abish
- The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974) by Ishmael Reed
- J R (1975) by William Gaddis
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
- The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme
- Dhalgren (1975) by Samuel R. Delany
- Options (1975) by Robert Sheckley
- The Alteration (1976) by Kingsley Amis
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) by Tom Robbins
- Almost Transparent Blue (1976) by Ryu Murakami
- Ratner's Star (1976) by Don DeLillo
- Ceremony (1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Monkey Grip (1977) by Helen Garner
- A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick
- The Public Burning (1977), by Robert Coover
- Life: A User's Manual (1978) by Georges Perec
- It's Me, Eddie (1979) by Eduard Limonov
- The Twyborn Affair (1979) by Patrick White
- If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
- Mulligan Stew (1979) by Gilbert Sorrentino
- How German Is It (1980) by Walter Abish
- Coin Locker Babies (1980) by Ryu Murakami
- Nikopol Trilogy (1980–1993) by Enki Bilal
- Kindred (1979) by Octavia Butler
- Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
- Still Life with Woodpecker (1980) by Tom Robbins
- Between Dog and Wolf (1980) by Sasha Sokolov
- VALIS (1981) by Philip K. Dick
- Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme
- Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) by Alasdair Gray
- The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982) by Philip K. Dick
- Mantissa (1982) by John Fowles
- Waterland (1983) by Graham Swift
- The Norm (1983) by Vladimir Sorokin
- Brilliant Creatures (1983) by Clive James
- The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco
- Miss Peabody's Inheritance (1983) by Elizabeth Jolley
- Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter
- Jitterbug Perfume (1984) by Tom Robbins
- Blood and Guts in High School (1984) by Kathy Acker
- Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) by Milorad Pavić
- Democracy (1984) by Joan Didion
- Marina’s Thirtieth Love (1984) by Vladimir Sorokin
- Foxybaby (1985) by Elizabeth Jolley
- Perfume (1985) by Patrick Süskind
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson
- Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (1985) by Assia Djebar
- Less Than Zero (1985) by Bret Easton Ellis
- The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster
- White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
- A Maggot (1985) by John Fowles
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami
- The Infinite Deadlock (1985–1988) by Dmitry Galkovsky
- Watchmen (1986–87) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- The Well (1986) by Elizabeth Jolley
- Memoirs of Many in One (1986) by Patrick White
- Kisses of the Enemy (1987) by Rodney Hall
- Moon Tiger (1987) by Penelope Lively
- Women and Men (1987) by Joseph McElroy
- Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
- The Mezzanine (1988) by Nicholson Baker
- Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco
- Braschi's Empire of Dreams (1988) by Giannina Braschi
- Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson
- Tracks (1988) by Louise Erdrich
- London Fields (1989) by Martin Amis
- The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie
- My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1990) by Mark Leyner
- Almanac of the Dead (1991) by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Omon Ra (1991) by Victor Pelevin
- The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers
- American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
- What a Carve Up! (1991) by Jonathan Coe
- Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland
- Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
- Vurt (1993) by Jeff Noon
- A Frolic of His Own (1994) by William Gaddis
- Astronautilía Hvězdoplavba (1995) by Jan Křesadlo
- Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers
- The Dog King (1995) by Christoph Ransmayr
- Reservation Blues (1995) by Sherman Alexie
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami
- The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara
- The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass
- The First Death (1996) by Dimitris Lyacos
- Chapayev and Void (1996) by Victor Pelevin
- Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
- Wozzeck (1997) by Yuri Izdryk
- Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
- Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
- In the Miso Soup (1997) by Ryu Murakami
- Transmetropolitan (1997-2002) by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
- Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) by Giannina Braschi
- Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis
- Zero Degree (1998) by Charu Nivedita
- Koolaids: The Art of War (1998) by Rabih Alameddine
- My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk
- Generation "П" (1999) by Victor Pelevin
- Blue Salo (1999) by Vladimir Sorokin
- The Rings of Saturn (1999) by W. G. Sebald
- Q (1999) by Luther Blissett
- Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem
- Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami
- White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
- Morning and Evening (2000) by Jon Fosse
- An Invisible Sign of My Own: A Novel (2000) by Aimee Bender
- House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood
- Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
- Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer
- You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers
- Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami
- 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
- After Dark (2004) by Haruki Murakami
- Depeche Mode (2004) by Serhiy Zhadan
- On Beauty (2005) by Zadie Smith
- Lunar Park (2005) by Bret Easton Ellis
- Against the Day (2005) by Thomas Pynchon
- Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006) by Heather O'Neill
- What Is the What (2006) by Dave Eggers
- The Last Novel (2007) by David Markson
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Díaz
- The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara
- The City & the City (2009) by China Miéville
- Generation A (2009) by Douglas Coupland
- Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon
- Z213: Exit (2009) by Dimitris Lyacos
- 1Q84 (2009–2010) by Haruki Murakami
- Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen
- There But For The(2011) by Ali Smith
- United States of Banana (2011) by Giannina Braschi
- 3.3.3.9 Fragments of Earthly/Naked Souls (2011) by Dang Than
- Home (2012) by Toni Morrison
- Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon
- Taipei (2013) by Tao Lin
- A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James
- With the People from the Bridge (2014) by Dimitris Lyacos
- تتراكتوس چهار لعنتي (in Persian) (2015) by Reza Khoshnazar
- Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders
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