Metafictional novels

1605 novel by Miguel de Cervantes

1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1726 novel by Jonathan Swift

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

1953 novel by Ray Bradbury

1980 novel by Umberto Eco

1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk

1991 novel by Jostein Gaarder

1962 novel by Anthony Burgess

2001 novel by Yann Martel

novel series by Lemony Snicket

'''''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''''' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction–infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Alli

1985 novel by Margaret Atwood

1979 novel by Michael Ende

2002 novel by Haruki Murakami

1962 novel by Philip K. Dick

1995 novel by José Saramago

1998 novel by Orhan Pamuk

1988 Italian novel by Umberto Eco

1987 novel by Stephen King

Discworld is a collection of fantasy comedy novels, graphic novels, short stories, and associated works conceived and primarily written by the English author Terry Pratchett. They are united by their being set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The novel series consists of forty-one books, the first being The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, and the last ''The Shepherd's Crown'', published posthumously in 2015. Pratchett also wrote eleven short stories related to the Discworld. The novels often satirise

novel by Laurence Sterne

2001 novel by Ian McEwan

1925 novel by André Gide

novel by Orhan Pamuk

2004 novel by David Mitchell

1928 novel by Virginia Woolf

1998 novel by Stephen King

1994 novel by Umberto Eco

1973 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

1989 novel by Stephen King

1969 novel by John Fowles

novel by Julio Cortázar

novel by Doris Lessing

novel, in the form of a commentary on a poem, by Vladimir Nabokov

novel by Milorad Pavić

2001 novel by Terry Pratchett

1978 novel by John Irving

1959 novel by William S. Burroughs

2004 novel by Roberto Bolaño

2003-2010 four books by Jonathan Stroud

1979 novel by Milan Kundera

1979 novel by Italo Calvino

1996 novel by David Foster Wallace

novel by Paul Auster

1965 novel by Thomas Pynchon

series of novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

novel by John Fowles

1914 novel by Miguel de Unamuno

2015 novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen

novel by Jean Rhys

1981 novel by Philip K. Dick

V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V." It was nominated for a National Book Award.

2000 novel by Margaret Atwood

novel by Kurt Vonnegut

José Saramago novel

novel by Henry Fielding

1818 novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann

HHhH is the debut novel of French author Laurent Binet, published in 2010 by Grasset & Fasquelle. The book is a metafictional novel depicting Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II, along with the writing of the novel. The novel was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman.

1990 novel by Salman Rushdie