Postmodern novels

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

1980 novel by Umberto Eco

1988 novel by Salman Rushdie

Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novel's themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.

1927 novel by Hermann Hesse

1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk

1984 Czech novel by Milan Kundera

Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It was his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot.

1957 novel by Jack Kerouac

novel series by Lemony Snicket

1981 novel by Salman Rushdie

'''''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

2002 novel by Haruki Murakami

science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick

1962 novel by Philip K. Dick

1995 novel by José Saramago

1998 novel by Orhan Pamuk

1985 novel by Patrick Süskind

2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy

thumb|right|US edition of 1Q84, first published in 2011 by Knopf is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–2010. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is "real".

1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

1988 Italian novel by Umberto Eco

1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

1997 novel by Arundhati Roy

1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

2003 novel by Mark Haddon

novel by Ken Kesey

1975 novel by Gabriel García Márquez

2001 novel by Ian McEwan

Ubik ( ) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik. This work expands upon characters and concepts previously introduced in the vignette "What the Dead Men Say".

1982 novel by Haruki Murakami

Baudolino is a novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century.

1985 novel by Haruki Murakami

novel by Toni Morrison

1994 novel by Umberto Eco

novel by Hunter S. Thompson

essay by Michel Foucault

1994–1995 novel by Haruki Murakami

1973 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

1988 novel by Haruki Murakami

novel by Julio Cortázar

2004 novel by Umberto Eco

1969 novel by John Fowles

1959 novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

novel by Milorad Pavić

novel by Haruki Murakami

1992 novel by Neal Stephenson

2017 novel by Haruki Murakami

non-fiction work by Michel Foucault

1985 novel by Don DeLillo

2004 novel by Roberto Bolaño

1959 novel by William S. Burroughs

2011 novel by Julian Barnes

1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon

2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

1996 novel by David Foster Wallace

1974 novel by Philip K. Dick

1979 novel by Milan Kundera

1979 novel by Italo Calvino