List of postmodern novels
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Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien[1]
- The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien[2]
- The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes[3]
1950s
- Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett[4]
- The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett[5]
- The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis[6]
- On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac[7]
- Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs[8][9]
- The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass[10]
1960s
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth[11]
- Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller[12][13]
- Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov[8]
- Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges[8]
- A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess[14]
- The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick[15]
- Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut[16]
- V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon[17]
- Blow-up and Other Stories (1963) by Julio Cortázar[18]
- Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut[19]
- Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar[8]
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick[20]
- Cosmicomics (1965) by Italo Calvino[21]
- In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote[22]
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon[23][24][25]
- Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal[26]
- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover[27]
- Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth[28]
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick[29]
- The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin[30]
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut[8][13]
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles[31]
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov[32]
- Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick[33]
1970s
- The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard[34]
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson[30]
- G. (1972) by John Berger[27]
- Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino[35]
- Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard[36]
- Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon[37][13]
- Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut[38]
- Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross[39]
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick[40]
- J R (1975) by William Gaddis[41]
- The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme[42]
- The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez[43]
- A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick[15]
- If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino[8][44]
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera[8]
1980s
- Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie[45]
- Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick[46]
- Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme[27]
- A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami[47]
- The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco[47]
- Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie[48]
- Money (1984) by Martin Amis[49]
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera[50]
- Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson[51]
- Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter[52]
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1984) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson[53]
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami[54]
- Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai[55]
- White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo[23][24]
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood[56]
- The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster[8]
- Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan[57]
- Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee[58]
- Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison[12]
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe[59]
- Libra (1988) by Don Delillo[60]
- Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson[8]
- Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco[61]
- Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami[47]
- The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie[3]
1990s
- The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk[62]
- Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon[63]
- Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian[64]
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie[65]
- American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis[66]
- Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis[67]
- The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers[68]
- Mao II (1991) by Don Delillo[69][65]
- Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland[70]
- Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster[22]
- Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson[71]
- Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike[72]
- Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović[73]
- The House of Doctor Dee (1993) by Peter Ackroyd[74]
- The Island of the Day Before (1994) by Umberto Eco[75]
- Brazil (1994) by John Updike[72]
- The Memory Police (1994) by Yōko Ogawa
- Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers[76]
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami[30]
- The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass[8]
- Blindness (1995) by José Saramago[77]
- The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara[78]
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders[79]
- Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace[80]
- Primeval and Other Times (1996) by Olga Tokarczuk[81]
- Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo[70]
- Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon[82]
- Toward the End of Time (1997) by John Updike[72]
- My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk[83]
- Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis[84]
- The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño[85]
- Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem[8]
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie[86]
- The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead[87]
- Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami[88]
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler[89]
2000s
- White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith[30]
- Pastoralia (2000) by George Saunders[90]
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon[91]
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers[27]
- House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski[92]
- The Cave (2000) by José Saramago[93]
- Baudolino (2000) by Umberto Eco[94]
- Gertrude and Claudius (2000) by John Updike[72]
- An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) by César Aira[95]
- The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood[96]
- number9dream (2001) by David Mitchell[97]
- You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers[98]
- The Double (2002) by José Saramago[99]
- Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer[8]
- Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk[100]
- Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami[101]
- VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell[102]
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon[22]
- Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee[103]
- 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño[22]
- Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell[104]
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco[27]
- Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee[105]
- JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland[106]
- Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan[107]
- In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders[108]
- Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon[109]
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon[22]
- The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara[78]
- Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon[22]
- Generosity: An Enhancement (2009) by Richard Powers[110]
- 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami[111]
- Z213: Exit (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos[112]
2010s
- Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen[113]
- Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell[114]
- A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan[115]
- The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes[116]
- The Angel Esmeralda (2011) by Don Delillo[117]
- The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu[118]
- The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace[119]
- Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon[120]
- A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James[121]
- Satin Island (2015) by Tom McCarthy[122]
- The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke[123]
- Book of Numbers (2015) by Joshua Cohen[124]
- The Familiar Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 (2015-2017) by Mark Z. Danielewski[125]
- Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith[48]
- The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead[12]
- Moonglow (2016) by Michael Chabon[126]
- 4 3 2 1 (2017) by Paul Auster[127]
- Killing Commendatore (2017) by Haruki Murakami[128]
- The White Book (2017) by Han Kang[129]
- Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders[130]
- theMystery.doc (2017) by Matthew McIntosh[131]
- Ducks, Newburyport (2019) by Lucy Ellmann[132]
- Quichotte (2019) by Salman Rushdie[133]
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) by Marlon James[134]
2020s
- Antkind (2020) by Charlie Kaufman[135]
- Interior Chinatown (2020) by Charles Yu[136]
- The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan[137]
- Annihilation (2022) by Michel Houellebecq[138]
- Shadow Ticket (2025) by Thomas Pynchon[139]
- Until the Victim Becomes our Own (2025) by Dimitris Lyacos