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.

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Tristano
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Tristano

Nanni Balestrini

2007 · 2014 edition

128 pages

The Park
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The Park

Philippe Sollers

Published 1981

96 pages

E. Luminata
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E. Luminata

Diamela Eltit

Published 2008

215 pages

Schematics
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Schematics

Julian Hibbard

Published 2011

80 pages

Yoko Ono
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Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

Published 2009

208 pages

Ground Works
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Ground Works

Christian Bök, Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Published 2002

256 pages

Prostitution
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Prostitution

Pierre Guyotat

1995 · 2006 edition

320 pages

The Betweens
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The Betweens

Cynthia Arrieu-King

Published 2021

80 pages