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[2]
- Invitation to a Beheading (1936) by Vladimir Nabokov[4]
- Professor Dowell's Head (1937) by Alexander Belyaev[5]
- Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce[6]
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien[7]
- The Master and Margarita (1940) by Mikhail Bulgakov[8]
- The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien[9]
- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) by Vladimir Nabokov[10]
- The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse[11]
- Bend Sinister (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov[12][13]
- The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes[14]
1950s
- Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett[15]
- Malone Dies (1951) by Samuel Beckett
- Player Piano (1952) by Kurt Vonnegut[16]
- Junkie (1953) by William S. Burroughs[17]
- The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett[18]
- Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding[19]
- Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov[17]
- The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis[20]
- The Floating Opera (1956) by John Barth[17]
- On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac[21]
- The End of the Road (1958) by John Barth[17]
- Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs[22][23]
- The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass[24]
1960s
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth[25]
- Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller[26][27]
- The Lime Twig (1961) by John Hawkes[28]
- Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov[22]
- A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess[29]
- The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick[30]
- Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut[31]
- V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon[32]
- Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut[33]
- Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar[22]
- Second Skin (1964) by John Hawkes[34]
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick[35]
- In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote[36]
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon[37][38][39]
- Snow White (1967) by Donald Barthelme[40]
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez[41]
- Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal[42]
- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover[43]
- Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth[44]
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick[45]
- The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin[46]
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut[22][27]
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles[47]
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov[48]
- Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick[49]
1970s
- Moscow-Petushki (1970) by Venedikt Yerofeyev[50]
- The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard[51]
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson[46]
- Chimera (1972) by John Barth[52][53][54]
- G. (1972) by John Berger[43]
- Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ishmael Reed[55]
- Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino[56]
- Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard[57]
- Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon[58][27][50]
- Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut[59][50]
- Look at the Harlequins! (1974) by Vladimir Nabokov[60]
- Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross[61]
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick[62]
- Terra Nostra (1975) by Carlos Fuentes[55]
- J R (1975) by William Gaddis[63]
- The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme[64]
- The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez[65]
- A School for Fools (1976) by Sasha Sokolov[66]
- A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick[30]
- The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving[67]
- If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino[22][68]
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera[22]
1980s
- The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco[69]
- Between Dog and Wolf (1980) by Sasha Sokolov[70]
- Coin Locker Babies(1980) by Ryu Murakami[69]
- Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie[71][72]
- Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick[73]
- A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami[69]
- The Queue (1983) by Vladimir Sorokin[74]
- Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie[75]
- Money (1984) by Martin Amis[76]
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera[77]
- Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson[78]
- Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter[79]
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1984) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson[80]
- Palisandriia (1985) by Sasha Sokolov[81]
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami[82]
- Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai[83]
- White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo[37][38]
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood[84]
- The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster[22]
- Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan[85]
- Kashira Highway (1986) by Andrei Monastyrski[86]
- Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee[87]
- Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison[26]
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe[88]
- Pushkin House (1987) by Andrei Bitov[86]
- Libra (1988) by Don Delillo[89]
- Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson[22]
- Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco[90]
- Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami[69]
- The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie[14]
- A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989) by Julian Barnes[91]
1990s
- The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk[92]
- Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon[93]
- Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian[94]
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie[95]
- American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis[96]
- Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis[97]
- The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers[98]
- Mao II (1991) by Don Delillo[99][95]
- Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland[100]
- Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster[36]
- Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson[101]
- Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike[102]
- Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović[103]
- The House of Doctor Dee (1993) by Peter Ackroyd[104]
- Roman (1994) by Vladimir Sorokin[86]
- The Island of the Day Before (1994) by Umberto Eco[105]
- The Norm (1994) by Vladimir Sorokin[86]
- Brazil (1994) by John Updike[102]
- Their Four Hearts (1994) by Vladimir Sorokin[106]
- Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers[107]
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami[46]
- Marina’s 30th Love (1995) by Vladimir Sorokin[86]
- The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass[22]
- Blindness (1995) by José Saramago[108]
- The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara[109]
- Chapaev and Void (1996) by Victor Pelevin[110][111]
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders[112]
- Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace[113]
- Primeval and Other Times (1996) by Olga Tokarczuk[114]
- Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo[100]
- Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon[115]
- Toward the End of Time (1997) by John Updike[102]
- The Infinite Deadlock (1997) by Dmitry Galkovsky[86]
- My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk[116]
- Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis[117]
- The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño[118]
- Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem[22]
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie[119]
- The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead[120]
- Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami[121]
- Blue Lard (1999) by Vladimir Sorokin[122]
- Generation P (1999) by Victor Pelevin[123][111]
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler[124]
2000s
- White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith[46]
- Pastoralia (2000) by George Saunders[125]
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon[126]
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers[43]
- House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski[127]
- The Cave (2000) by José Saramago[128]
- Baudolino (2000) by Umberto Eco[129]
- Gertrude and Claudius (2000) by John Updike[102]
- An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) by César Aira[130]
- The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood[131]
- number9dream (2001) by David Mitchell[132]
- Fingernails (2001) by Mikhail Elizarov[133]
- You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers[134]
- The Double (2002) by José Saramago[135]
- Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer[22]
- Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk[136]
- Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami[137]
- VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell[138]
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon[36]
- Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee[139]
- 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño[36]
- Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell[140]
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco[43]
- Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee[141]
- JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland[142]
- Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan[143]
- In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders[144]
- Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon[145]
- Empire V (2006) by Victor Pelevin[111]
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon[36]
- The Librarian (2007) by Mikhail Elizarov[133]
- The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara[109]
- Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon[36]
- Generosity: An Enhancement (2009) by Richard Powers[146]
- 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami[147]
- Z213: Exit (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos[148]
- t (2009) by Victor Pelevin[5]
2010s
- Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen[149]
- Cartoons (2010) by Mikhail Elizarov[133]
- Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell[150]
- A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan[151]
- The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes[152]
- The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu[153]
- The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace[154]
- Die Zeit, die Zeit (2012) by Martin Suter[155]
- Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon[156]
- Batman Apollo (2013) by Victor Pelevin[111]
- A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James[157]
- Satin Island (2015) by Tom McCarthy[158]
- The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke[159]
- Book of Numbers (2015) by Joshua Cohen[160]
- The Familiar Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 (2015-2017) by Mark Z. Danielewski[161]
- Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith[75]
- The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead[26]
- Moonglow (2016) by Michael Chabon[162]
- 4 3 2 1 (2017) by Paul Auster[163]
- Killing Commendatore (2017) by Haruki Murakami[164]
- The White Book (2017) by Han Kang[165]
- Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders[166]
- theMystery.doc (2017) by Matthew McIntosh[167]
- iPhuck 10 (2017) by Victor Pelevin[111]
- Secret Views of Mount Fuji (2018) by Victor Pelevin[168]
- Ducks, Newburyport (2019) by Lucy Ellmann[169]
- Quichotte (2019) by Salman Rushdie[170]
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) by Marlon James[171]
- The Art of Light Touches (2019) by Victor Pelevin[5]
2020s
- Antkind (2020) by Charlie Kaufman[172]
- Interior Chinatown (2020) by Charles Yu[173]
- The Anomaly (2020) by Hervé Le Tellier[174]
- Transhumanism Inc. (2021) by Victor Pelevin[111]
- KGBT+ (2022) by Victor Pelevin[111]
- The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan[175]
- Annihilation (2022) by Michel Houellebecq[176]
- Journey to Eleusis (2023) by Victor Pelevin[111]
- Krut’ (2024) by Victor Pelevin[111]
- Udol (2025) by Mikhail Elizarov[177]
- Shadow Ticket (2025) by Thomas Pynchon[178]
- Until the Victim Becomes our Own (2025) by Dimitris Lyacos[citation needed]
- The Coast of Everything (2026) by Guillermo Stitch[179]