Postmodern Literature - Examples of Postmodern Literature

Examples of Postmodern Literature

Some well known examples of postmodern literature, in chronological order, include:

• The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes
• The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
• Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs
• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
• The Lime Twig (1961) by John Hawkes
• Mother Night (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
• V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
• Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
• Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth
• 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
• Moscow-Petushki (1970) by Venedikt Erofeev
• The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
• Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
• Chimera (1972) by John Barth
• Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
• Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard
• Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Magus (1973) by John Fowles
• J R (1975) by William Gaddis
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme
• Dhalgren (1975) by Samuel R. Delany
• Options (1975) by Robert Sheckley
• It's Me, Eddie (1976) by Eduard Limonov
• The Public Burning (1977), by Robert Coover
• Life: A User's Manual (1978) by Georges Perec
• If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
• Mulligan Stew (1979) by Gilbert Sorrentino
• How German Is It (1980) by Walter Abish
• Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme
• Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) by Alasdair Gray
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982) by Philip K. Dick
• Mantissa (1982) by John Fowles
• The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster
• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
• Watchmen (1984) by Alan Moore
• A Maggot (1985) by John Fowles
• The Infinite Deadlock (1985–1988) by Dmitry Galkovsky
• Women and Men (1987) by Joseph McElroy
• The Mezzanine (1988) by Nicholson Baker
• Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco
• Empire of Dreams (1988) by Giannina Braschi
• Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson
• My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1990) by Mark Leyner
• American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
• Omon Ra (1991) by Victor Pelevin
• What a Carve Up! (1991) by Jonathan Coe
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland
• Vurt (1993) by Jeff Noon
• A Frolic of His Own (1994) by William Gaddis
• The Tunnel (1995) by William Gass
• Reservation Blues (1995) by Sherman Alexie
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami
• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
• Chapayev and Void (1996) by Victor Pelevin
• Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
• The Hundred Brothers (1998) by Donald Antrim
• Tomcat in Love (1998) by Tim O'Brien
• Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) Giannina Braschi
• Generation "П" (1999) by Victor Pelevin
• The Rings of Saturn (1999) by W. G. Sebald
• Blue Salo (1999) by Vladimir Sorokin
• Q (1999) by Luther Blissett
• House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Danielewski
• The Verificationist (2000) by Donald Antrim
• This is Not a Novel (2001) by David Markson
• Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
• Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
• Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer
• 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
• Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell
• Lunar Park (2005) by Bret Easton Ellis
• Trance (2005) by Christopher Sorrentino
• Remainder (2007) by Tom McCarthy
• The Last Novel (2007) by David Markson
• Generation A (2009) by Douglas Coupland
• Z213: Exit (2009) by Dimitris Lyacos
• 1Q84 (2009–2010) by Haruki Murakami
• C (2010) by Tom McCarthy
• A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan
• Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen
• The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace
• United States of Banana (2011) by Giannina Braschi