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The Princess Bride
1973 novel by William Goldman

House of Leaves
2000 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Club Dumas
1993 novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Redshirts
2012 novel by John Scalzi

Lunar Park
2005 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

Possession
1990 romance by A. S. Byatt

Glory Road
novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Flaubert's Parrot
novel by Julian Barnes

I the Supreme
1974 novel by Augusto Roa Bastos

Everything Is Illuminated
novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

Tono-bungay
Tono-Bungay is a realist semiautobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and first published in book form in 1909. It has been called "arguably his most artistic book". It had been serialised before book publication, both in the United States, in The Popular Magazine, beginning in the issue of September 1908, and in Britain, in The English Review, beginning in the magazine's first issue in December 1908.

A Void
1969 novel by Georges Perec

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
novel by Junot Díaz

Second Thoughts
1957 novel by Michel Butor

Haunted
2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk

The Cave
Portuguese novel published in 2000

The Number of the Beast
1980 novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Yellowface
2023 novel by R. F. Kuang

Speak, Memory
book by Vladimir Nabokov

The Hollow Man
1935 novel by John Dickson Carr

The Gift
novel by Vladimir Nabokov

The Iron Dream
1972 novel by Norman Spinrad

Man in the Dark
2008 novel by Paul Auster

Look at the Harlequins!
novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Timm Thaler
1962 children's novel by James Krüss

The Things They Carried
meta-fictional Vietnam War memoir by American author Tim O'Brien

Travels in the Scriptorium
2006 novel by Paul Auster

Junkie
novel by William S. Burroughs

The Einstein Intersection
novel by Samuel Delany

Queer
novel by William S. Burroughs
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
trilogy of novels by Ágota Kristóf

The Eyre Affair
2001 novel by Jasper Fforde

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
novel by James Hogg

S.
novel by Doug Dorst
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
1981 novel by Alasdair Gray

The Athenian Murders
book

A History of New York
1809 novel by Washington Irving

Nice Work
book by David Lodge
Myra Breckinridge
1968 novel by Gore Vidal

Little, Big
1981 novel by John Crowley

Moon Tiger
1987 novel by Penelope Lively

At Swim-Two-Birds
1939 novel by Flann O'Brien

Watt
novel by Samuel Beckett

Tres tristes tigres
1967 novel by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Save Me the Waltz
book by Zelda Fitzgerald

La Jalousie
novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Money
1984 novel by Martin Amis

Murder at the ABA
1976 novel by Isaac Asimov

Slow Man
novel by J. M. Coetzee

Quichotte
2019 novel by Salman Rushdie

Options
novel by Robert Sheckley

Operation Shylock
1993 novel by Philip Roth

The Broom of the System
novel by David Foster Wallace

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
novel by Mohsin Hamid

The Starless Sea
2019 novel by Erin Morgenstern

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
memoir by Dave Eggers

Lost in a Good Book
2002 novel by Jasper Fforde

JPod
JPod is a novel by Douglas Coupland published by Random House of Canada in 2006. Set in 2005, the book explores the strange and unconventional everyday life of the main character, Ethan Jarlewski, and his team of video game programmers whose last names all begin with the letter 'J'.

The Land of Laughs
1980 novel by Jonathan Carroll

A Tale for the Time Being
novel by Ruth Ozeki