The latest experimental books

Experimental books break the rules on purpose. Pages may be laid out strangely, sentences may run for chapters, and the story may refuse to behave like one. They are not always easy, and they show what else a book can be. The newest come first.

The Approval Motive Studies in Evaluative Dependence

Douglas P. Crowne, David Marlowe

Published 1980

233 pages

"L'intraduisible dont je suis fait" Artaud et les avant-gardes occidentales

Anne Tomiche

2012 · 2021 edition

410 pages

Itch

Steven Seidenberg

Published 2014

196 pages

Cover of Interpreting Radical Metaphor in the Experimental Fictions of Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon and Kathy Acker (Studies in Comparative Literature, 43)

Interpreting Radical Metaphor in the Experimental Fictions of Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon and Kathy Acker (Studies in Comparative Literature, 43)

Victoria De Zwaan

Published 2002

184 pages

Theoretical Killings Essays & Accidents

Steven Church

Published 2009

195 pages

You & Me A Novel

Padgett Powell

2012 · 2013 edition

208 pages

ULYSSES SIRENS CYCLOPS (The James Joyce archive)

James Joyce, Michael Groden

Published 1978

380 pages

Aftermyths Hysteria, Colloquialism, and Caricature in the Age of Doubt

Robert Eisenhauer

Published 2007

255 pages

The Arab Avant-Garde

Andrea Khalil

Published 2003

192 pages

Sugovor s literarnim đavlom eseji o čitateljskoj nesanici

Gordana Slabinac

Published 2006

225 pages

Suburban Ambush

Robert Siegle

Published 1989

320 pages

The Snowflake on the Belfry Dogma and Disquietude in the Critical Arena

Anna Elizabeth Balakian

Published 1994

270 pages

Metafiction

Patricia Waugh

1984 · 2002 edition

186 pages

An Army of Lovers

David Buuck, Juliana Spahr

Published 2013

150 pages

Modernism and Its Merchandise The Spanish Avant-garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930

Juli Highfill

Published 2014

269 pages

Juncture 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings

Lara Stapleton, Veronica Gonzalez

Published 2003

289 pages

Drilling for Suit Mystery

Matthew T. Stolte, John M. Bennett

Published 2012

88 pages

Messages

Lynne Rees, Sarah Salway

2006 · 2008 edition

350 pages

Messenger

Paul Kercal

Published 2008

128 pages

Forty Stories

Donald Barthelme

1987 · 2026 edition

256 pages

The Beat Generation and the Russian New Wave

Inger Thorup Lauridsen, Per Dalgård

Published 1990

156 pages

An Oakwoods Almanac

Gerry Loose

Published 2015