List of postmodern novels

Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:

## Proto-postmodern and Early postmodern novels

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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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