List of postmodern novels

Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:

Proto-postmodern and Early postmodern novels

• A Universal History of Infamy (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges ^[1]
• At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien ^[2]
• The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien ^[3]
• Ficciones (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges ^[4]
• The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes ^[5]
• The Aleph (1949) by Jorge Luis Borges ^[6]

1950s

• Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett ^[7]
• The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett ^[8]
• The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis ^[9]
• On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac ^[10]
• Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs ^{[11] [12]}
• The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass ^[13]

1960s

• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth ^[14]
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller ^{[15] [16]}
• Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov ^[11]
• Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges ^[11]
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess ^[17]
• The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick ^[18]
• Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut ^[19]
• V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon ^[20]
• Blow-up and Other Stories (1963) by Julio Cortázar ^[21]
• Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut ^[22]
• Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar ^[11]
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick ^[23]
• Cosmicomics (1965) by Italo Calvino ^[24]
• In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote ^[4]
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon ^{[25] [26] [27]}
• Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal ^[28]
• The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover ^[29]
• Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth ^[30]
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick ^[31]
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin ^[32]
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut ^{[11] [16]}
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles ^[33]
• Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov ^[34]
• Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick ^[35]

1970s

• The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard ^[36]
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson ^[32]
• G. (1972) by John Berger ^[29]
• Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino ^[37]
• Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard ^[38]
• Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon ^{[39] [16]}
• Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut ^[40]
• Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross ^[41]
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick ^[42]
• J R (1975) by William Gaddis ^[43]
• The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme ^[44]
• The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez ^[45]
• American Splendor (1976-2008) by Harvey Pekar ^[11]
• A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick ^[18]
• If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino ^{[11] [46]}
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera ^[11]

1980s

• Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie ^[47]
• Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick ^[48]
• Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme ^[29]
• A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami ^[49]
• The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco ^[49]
• Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie ^[50]
• Money (1984) by Martin Amis ^[51]
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera ^[52]
• Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson ^[53]
• Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter ^[54]
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1984) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson ^[55]
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami ^[56]
• Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai ^[57]
• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo ^{[25] [26]}
• The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood ^[58]
• The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster ^[11]
• Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan ^[59]
• Maus (1986) by Art Spiegelman ^{[11] [32]}
• Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee ^[60]
• Watchmen (1986–87) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ^{[61] [32]}
• Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison ^[15]
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe ^[62]
• Libra (1988) by Don Delillo ^[63]
• Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson ^[11]
• Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco ^[64]
• Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami ^[49]
• The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie ^[5]

1990s

• The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk ^[65]
• Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon ^[66]
• Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian ^[67]
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie ^[68]
• American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis ^[69]
• Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis ^[70]
• The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers ^[71]
• Mao II (1991) by Don Delillo ^{[72] [68]}
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland ^[73]
• Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster ^[4]
• Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson ^[74]
• Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike ^[75]
• Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović ^[76]
• The House of Doctor Dee (1993) by Peter Ackroyd ^[77]
• The Island of the Day Before (1994) by Umberto Eco ^[78]
• Brazil (1994) by John Updike ^[75]
• The Memory Police (1994) by Yōko Ogawa
• Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers ^[79]
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami ^[32]
• The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass ^[11]
• Blindness (1995) by José Saramago ^[80]
• The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara ^[81]
• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace ^[82]
• CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders ^[83]
• Primeval and Other Times (1996) by Olga Tokarczuk ^[84]
• Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo ^[73]
• Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon ^[85]
• Toward the End of Time (1997) by John Updike ^[75]
• My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk ^[86]
• Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis ^[87]
• The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño ^[88]
• Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem ^[11]
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie ^[89]
• The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead ^[90]
• Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami ^[91]
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler ^[92]

2000s

• White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith ^[32]
• Pastoralia (2000) by George Saunders ^[93]
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon ^[94]
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers ^[29]
• House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski ^[95]
• The Cave (2000) by José Saramago ^[96]
• Baudolino (2000) by Umberto Eco ^[97]
• Gertrude and Claudius (2000) by John Updike ^[75]
• An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) by César Aira ^[98]
• The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood ^[99]
• number9dream (2001) by David Mitchell ^[100]
• You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers ^[101]
• The Double (2002) by José Saramago ^[102]
• Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer ^[11]
• Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk ^[103]
• Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami ^[104]
• VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell ^[105]
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon ^[4]
• Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee ^[106]
• 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño ^[4]
• Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell ^[107]
• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco ^[29]
• Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee ^[108]
• JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland ^[109]
• Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan ^[110]
• In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders ^[111]
• Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon ^[112]
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon ^[4]
• The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara ^[81]
• Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon ^[4]
• Generosity: An Enhancement (2009) by Richard Powers ^[113]
• 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami ^[114]
• Z213: Exit (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos ^[115]

2010s

• Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen ^[116]
• Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell ^[117]
• A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan ^[118]
• The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes ^[119]
• The Angel Esmeralda (2011) by Don Delillo ^[120]
• The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu ^[121]
• The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace ^[122]
• Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon ^[123]
• A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James ^[124]
• Satin Island (2015) by Tom McCarthy ^[125]
• The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke ^[126]
• Book of Numbers (2015) by Joshua Cohen ^[127]
• The Familiar Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 (2015-2017) by Mark Z. Danielewski ^[128]
• Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith ^[50]
• The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead ^[15]
• Moonglow (2016) by Michael Chabon ^[129]
• 4 3 2 1 (2017) by Paul Auster ^[130]
• Killing Commendatore (2017) by Haruki Murakami ^[131]
• The White Book (2017) by Han Kang ^[132]
• Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders ^[133]
• theMystery.doc (2017) by Matthew McIntosh ^[134]
• Ducks, Newburyport (2019) by Lucy Ellmann ^[135]
• Quichotte (2019) by Salman Rushdie ^[136]
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) by Marlon James ^[137]

2020s

• Antkind (2020) by Charlie Kaufman ^[138]
• Interior Chinatown (2020) by Charles Yu ^[139]
• Otaku Girl (2021) by Louis Bulaong ^[140]
• The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan ^[141]
• Annihilation (2022) by Michel Houellebecq ^[142]
• Shadow Ticket (2025) by Thomas Pynchon ^[143]
• Until the Victim Becomes our Own (2025) by Dimitris Lyacos

See also

• List of postmodern critics
• List of postmodern writers
• Postmodern literature
• Postmodern art
• Postmodern film and television
• Graphic novel
• Criticism of postmodernism
• Pop culture fiction
• Literary fiction

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