# List of postmodern novels

Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:

## Proto-postmodern and Early postmodern novels

* A Universal History of Infamy (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges
* At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
* The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien
* Ficciones (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges
* The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes
* The Aleph (1949) by Jorge Luis Borges

## 1950s

* Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett
* The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett
* The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
* On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
* Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs
* The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass

## 1960s

* The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
* Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
* Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
* Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges
* A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
* The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
* Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut
* V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
* Blow-up and Other Stories (1963) by Julio Cortázar
* Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut
* Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar
* The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick
* Cosmicomics (1965) by Italo Calvino
* In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote
* The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
* Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal
* The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover
* Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
* The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin
* Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
* The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
* Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov
* Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick

## 1970s

* The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
* G. (1972) by John Berger
* Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
* Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard
* Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
* Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut
* Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross
* Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick
* J R (1975) by William Gaddis
* The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme
* The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez
* American Splendor (1976-2008) by Harvey Pekar
* A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick
* If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
* The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera

## 1980s

* Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
* Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick
* Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme
* A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami
* The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco
* Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie
* Money (1984) by Martin Amis
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera
* Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
* Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter
* The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1984) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
* Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami
* Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai
* White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
* The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
* The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster
* Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan
* Maus (1986) by Art Spiegelman
* Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee
* Watchmen (1986–87) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
* Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
* The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe
* Libra (1988) by Don Delillo
* Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson
* Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco
* Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami
* The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie

## 1990s

* The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk
* Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon
* Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian
* Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie
* American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
* Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis
* The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers
* Mao II (1991) by Don Delillo
* Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland
* Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster
* Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
* Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike
* Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović
* The House of Doctor Dee (1993) by Peter Ackroyd
* The Island of the Day Before (1994) by Umberto Eco
* Brazil (1994) by John Updike
* The Memory Police (1994) by Yōko Ogawa
* Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers
* The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami
* The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass
* Blindness (1995) by José Saramago
* The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara
* Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
* CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders
* Primeval and Other Times (1996) by Olga Tokarczuk
* Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
* Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
* Toward the End of Time (1997) by John Updike
* My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk
* Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis
* The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño
* Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem
* The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie
* The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead
* Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami
* A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler

## 2000s

* White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
* Pastoralia (2000) by George Saunders
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers
* House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
* The Cave (2000) by José Saramago
* Baudolino (2000) by Umberto Eco
* Gertrude and Claudius (2000) by John Updike
* An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) by César Aira
* The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood
* number9dream (2001) by David Mitchell
* You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers
* The Double (2002) by José Saramago
* Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer
* Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk
* Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami
* VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon
* Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee
* 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
* Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell
* The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco
* Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee
* JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland
* Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan
* In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders
* Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon
* The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara
* Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon
* Generosity: An Enhancement (2009) by Richard Powers
* 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami
* Z213: Exit (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos

## 2010s

* Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen
* Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell
* A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan
* The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes
* The Angel Esmeralda (2011) by Don Delillo
* The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu
* The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace
* Ready Player One (2011) by Ernest Cline
* Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon
* A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James
* Satin Island (2015) by Tom McCarthy
* The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke
* Book of Numbers (2015) by Joshua Cohen
* The Familiar Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 (2015-2017) by Mark Z. Danielewski
* Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith
* The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead
* Moonglow (2016) by Michael Chabon
* 4 3 2 1 (2017) by Paul Auster
* Killing Commendatore (2017) by Haruki Murakami
* The White Book (2017) by Han Kang
* Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders
* Ducks, Newburyport (2019) by Lucy Ellmann
* Quichotte (2019) by Salman Rushdie
* Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) by Marlon James

## 2020s

* Antkind (2020) by Charlie Kaufman
* Interior Chinatown (2020) by Charles Yu
* Otaku Girl (2021) by Louis Bulaong
* The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan
* The Infinite Fall (2025) by Matthew Liechty