The most popular 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.

See also Experimental fiction

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Peter Ackroyd
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Peter Ackroyd

Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Julian Wolfreys

Published 2000

311 pages

Poetry Wars
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Poetry Wars

Peter Barry

Published 2006

254 pages

Story/Time
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Story/Time

Bill T. Jones

Published 2014

104 pages

MOTHERs
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MOTHERs

Rachel Zucker

Published 2013

164 pages

1960
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1960

Al Filreis

Published 2021

352 pages

Metafictions?
Cover of Metafictions?

Metafictions?

Wenche Ommundsen

Published 1993

117 pages