Postmodern books to chew on

Explore a curated list of thought-provoking postmodern books that challenge conventions and spark deep reflection. Discover must-read titles to expand your literary horizons.

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White Noise

by Don DeLillo

Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a …
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Falling Man

by Don DeLillo

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers …
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Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth …
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Being There

by Jerzy Kosinski

A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. …
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Lost in the Funhouse

by John Barth

John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published …
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Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story …
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White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

In the author's words, this novel is an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is …