Top Underrated Experimental Fiction
Discover hidden gems in experimental fiction with our list of top underrated books. Explore avant-garde narratives and groundbreaking storytelling that defy conventions.
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15 Serial Killers
by Harold Jaffe
Exploring dangerous territory, Jafee uses illustrations, letters, monologues, interviews, and "unsituated dialogues" to bring to life some of the most infamous serial killers of all …
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Take Five
by D. Keith Mano
Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing Jesus 2001, what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather), descendent of a wealthy and prestigious New York …
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Eden Eden Eden
by Pierre Guyotat
Eden Eden Eden is Pierre Guyotat's legendary novel of atrocity and obscenity. It is a masterpiece of literary innovation, which is taught on numerous university …
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Nil
by James Turner
Read the travails and tribulations of Proun Nul, citizen of Nil, where the only thing to believe in is Nothing. Nul keeps Nil's great bureaucratic …
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Ten One
by Lance Olsen
Fiction. You're sitting in a darkened theater, waiting for the movie to begin when American culture explodes all around in I-Max, Sensurround, Technicolor--this is the …
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Flet
by Joyelle McSweeney
Flet is an Administration flunky who begins to suspect that the oft-invoked Emergency, after which all public spaces are off-limits, is a tool of sociopolitical …
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Voices
by Kyle Muntz
Taking place in a kind of "internal space," populated by living ideas, Voices utilizes broken typography within the context of an equally broken narrative to …
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Unlucky Lucky Days
by Daniel Grandbois
Surreal, satirical, absurdist tales with an underlying tenderness revealed through meticulously detailed worlds and poetic words.
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The Unwelcome Guest Plus Nin and Nan
by Eckhard Gerdes
Fan-favorite novelist Eckhard Gerdes is back, and this time with both barrels loaded! These two novels tackle modern life's complexities as only the twelve-gauge pen …
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The Book of Lazarus
by Richard Grossman
The death of Mitchell O'Banion, a former political terrorist with family ties to organized crime, brings together a bizarre lot of ex-anarchists whose paths have …
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The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner
John Brunner's classic novel of ecological catastrophe, now more relevant than ever.
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Wittgenstein's Mistress
by David Markson
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is …
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The Age of Wire and String
by Ben Marcus
"A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows." Kirkus Reviews
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Zero
by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão
José and Rosa meet with the help of the Happy Heart Marriage Agency. Buying a house becomes the focus of their marriage. To get the …
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Scorch Atlas
by Blake Butler
Scorch Atlas is a series of maps, or worlds, "tied so tight they couldn't crane their necks." Everything is either destroyed, rotting or festering--and nopt …