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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