Ulysses
James Joyce, Don Gifford
1975 · 2025 edition
428 pages
The most popular experimental fiction books
Experimental fiction pushes at what a novel can do. Stories are told in footnotes, fragments, lists or shapes on the page, and the usual rules of plot and character are set aside. Demanding and playful, these books are for adventurous readers.
Combines Literary fiction and Experimental
Results
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
1973 · 2023 edition
590 pages
Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon
Published 2006
1085 pages
The Tent
Margaret Atwood
2004 · 2006 edition
159 pages
Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett
1970 · 2025 edition
208 pages
Only Revolutions
Mark Z. Danielewski
2006 · 2014 edition
384 pages
The People Of Paper
Salvador Plascencia
Published 2005
245 pages
Forty Stories
Donald Barthelme
1987 · 2026 edition
256 pages
Burning Bright
John Steinbeck
1970 · 2011 edition
112 pages
Locus Solus
Raymond Roussel
1970 · 2017 edition
224 pages
Aliens & Anorexia
Chris Kraus
2000 · 2018 edition
272 pages
You & Me A Novel
Padgett Powell
2012 · 2013 edition
208 pages
Metafiction The Theory and Practice of Self-conscious Fiction
Patricia Waugh
1984 · 2005 edition
176 pages
The Failure
James Greer
Published 2010
220 pages
If
Nicolas Bourbaki
Published 2014
342 pages
The Garden (Director's Cut)
Louis Armand
2000 · 2020 edition
156 pages
Oppression for the Heaven of It (Journal of Experimental Fiction)
Moore Bowen
Published 2013
280 pages
Redoubt A Mononovel
Cecile Pineda
Published 2004
68 pages
Girls Against God A Novel
Jenny Hval
Published 2020
240 pages
Baskets
Ino Mbuk
Published 2025
93 pages
House of Leaves The Prizewinning and Terrifying Cult Classic That Will Turn Everything You Thought You Knew about Life (and Books!) Upside Down
Mark Z. Danielewski
Published 2024
736 pages
Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery)
James Greer
Published 2006
338 pages
Man or Mango? A Lament
Lucy Ellmann
1998 · 2022 edition
182 pages
Alienation in the new novel of France and Quebec
Virginia Ann Harger
Published 1985
173 pages