List of postmodern novels
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Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:
Proto-postmodern and early postmodern novels (pre-1950)
- Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse[1]
- Orlando: A Biography (1928) by Virginia Woolf[2]
- The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner[3]
- Flush: A Biography (1933) by Virginia Woolf[4]
- Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce[5]
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien[6]
- The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien[7]
- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) by Vladimir Nabokov[8]
- The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse[9]
- Bend Sinister (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov[10][11]
- The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes[12]
1950s
- Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett[13]
- Malone Dies (1951) by Samuel Beckett
- Player Piano (1952) by Kurt Vonnegut[14]
- Junkie (1953) by William S. Burroughs[15]
- The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett[16]
- Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding[17]
- Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov[15]
- The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis[18]
- The Floating Opera (1956) by John Barth[15]
- On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac[19]
- The End of the Road (1958) by John Barth[15]
- Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs[20][21]
- The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass[22]
1960s
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth[23]
- Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller[24][25]
- The Lime Twig (1961) by John Hawkes[26]
- Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov[20]
- A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess[27]
- The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick[28]
- Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut[29]
- V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon[30]
- Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut[31]
- Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar[20]
- Second Skin (1964) by John Hawkes[32]
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick[33]
- In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote[34]
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon[35][36][37]
- Snow White (1967) by Donald Barthelme[38]
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez[39]
- Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal[40]
- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover[41]
- Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth[42]
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick[43]
- The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin[44]
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut[20][25]
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles[45]
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov[46]
- Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick[47]
1970s
- The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard[48]
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson[44]
- Chimera (1972) by John Barth[49][50][51]
- G. (1972) by John Berger[41]
- Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ishmael Reed[52]
- Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino[53]
- Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard[54]
- Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon[55][25]
- Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut[56]
- Look at the Harlequins! (1974) by Vladimir Nabokov[57]
- Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross[58]
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick[59]
- Terra Nostra (1975) by Carlos Fuentes[52]
- J R (1975) by William Gaddis[60]
- The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme[61]
- The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez[62]
- A School for Fools (1976) by Sasha Sokolov[63]
- A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick[28]
- The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving[64]
- If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino[20][65]
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera[20]
1980s
- Between Dog and Wolf (1980) by Sasha Sokolov[66]
- Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie[67][68]
- Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick[69]
- A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami[70]
- The Queue (1983) by Vladimir Sorokin[71]
- The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco[70]
- Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie[72]
- Money (1984) by Martin Amis[73]
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera[74]
- Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson[75]
- Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter[76]
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1984) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson[77]
- Palisandriia (1985) by Sasha Sokolov[78]
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami[79]
- Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai[80]
- White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo[35][36]
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood[81]
- The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster[20]
- Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan[82]
- Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee[83]
- Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison[24]
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe[84]
- Libra (1988) by Don Delillo[85]
- Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson[20]
- Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco[86]
- Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami[70]
- The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie[12]
- A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989) by Julian Barnes[87]
1990s
- The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk[88]
- Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon[89]
- Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian[90]
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie[91]
- American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis[92]
- Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis[93]
- The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers[94]
- Mao II (1991) by Don Delillo[95][91]
- Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland[96]
- Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster[34]
- Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson[97]
- Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike[98]
- Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović[99]
- The House of Doctor Dee (1993) by Peter Ackroyd[100]
- The Island of the Day Before (1994) by Umberto Eco[101]
- Brazil (1994) by John Updike[98]
- The Memory Police (1994) by Yōko Ogawa[citation needed]
- Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers[102]
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami[44]
- The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass[20]
- Blindness (1995) by José Saramago[103]
- The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara[104]
- Chapaev and Void (1996) by Victor Pelevin[105]
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders[106]
- Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace[107]
- Primeval and Other Times (1996) by Olga Tokarczuk[108]
- Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo[96]
- Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon[109]
- Toward the End of Time (1997) by John Updike[98]
- My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk[110]
- Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis[111]
- The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño[112]
- Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem[20]
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie[113]
- The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead[114]
- Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami[115]
- Blue Lard (1999) by Vladimir Sorokin[116]
- Generation P (1999) by Victor Pelevin[117]
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler[118]
2000s
- White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith[44]
- Pastoralia (2000) by George Saunders[119]
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon[120]
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers[41]
- House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski[121]
- The Cave (2000) by José Saramago[122]
- Baudolino (2000) by Umberto Eco[123]
- Gertrude and Claudius (2000) by John Updike[98]
- An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) by César Aira[124]
- The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood[125]
- number9dream (2001) by David Mitchell[126]
- You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers[127]
- The Double (2002) by José Saramago[128]
- Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer[20]
- Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk[129]
- Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami[130]
- VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell[131]
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon[34]
- Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee[132]
- 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño[34]
- Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell[133]
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco[41]
- Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee[134]
- JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland[135]
- Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan[136]
- In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders[137]
- Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon[138]
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon[34]
- The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara[104]
- Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon[34]
- Generosity: An Enhancement (2009) by Richard Powers[139]
- 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami[140]
- Z213: Exit (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos[141]
2010s
- Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen[142]
- Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell[143]
- A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan[144]
- The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes[145]
- The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu[146]
- The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace[147]
- Die Zeit, die Zeit (2012) by Martin Suter[148]
- Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon[149]
- A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James[150]
- Satin Island (2015) by Tom McCarthy[151]
- The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke[152]
- Book of Numbers (2015) by Joshua Cohen[153]
- The Familiar Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 (2015-2017) by Mark Z. Danielewski[154]
- Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith[72]
- The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead[24]
- Moonglow (2016) by Michael Chabon[155]
- 4 3 2 1 (2017) by Paul Auster[156]
- Killing Commendatore (2017) by Haruki Murakami[157]
- The White Book (2017) by Han Kang[158]
- Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders[159]
- theMystery.doc (2017) by Matthew McIntosh[160]
- Secret Views of Mount Fuji (2018) by Victor Pelevin[161]
- Ducks, Newburyport (2019) by Lucy Ellmann[162]
- Quichotte (2019) by Salman Rushdie[163]
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) by Marlon James[164]
2020s
- Antkind (2020) by Charlie Kaufman[165]
- Interior Chinatown (2020) by Charles Yu[166]
- The Anomaly (2020) by Hervé Le Tellier[167]
- The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan[168]
- Annihilation (2022) by Michel Houellebecq[169]
- Journey to Eleusis (2023) by Victor Pelevin[170]
- Krut’ (2024) by Victor Pelevin[171]
- Shadow Ticket (2025) by Thomas Pynchon[172]
- Until the Victim Becomes our Own (2025) by Dimitris Lyacos[citation needed]