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^[1]
• At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien^[2]
• The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien^[3]
• Ficciones (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges^[4]
• The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes^[5]
• The Aleph (1949) by Jorge Luis Borges^[6]

1950s

• Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett^[7]
• The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett^[8]
• The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis^[9]
• On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac^[10]
• Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs^[11][12]
• The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass^[13]

1960s

• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth^[14]
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller^[15][16]
• Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov^[11]
• Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges^[11]
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess^[17]
• The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick^[18]
• Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut^[19]
• V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon^[20]
• Blow-up and Other Stories (1963) by Julio Cortázar^[21]
• Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut^[22]
• Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar^[11]
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick^[23]
• Cosmicomics (1965) by Italo Calvino^[24]
• In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote^[4]
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon^[25][26][27]
• Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal^[28]
• The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover^[29]
• Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth^[30]
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick^[31]
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin^[32]
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut^[11][16]
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles^[33]
• Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov^[34]
• Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick^[35]

1970s

• The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard^[36]
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson^[32]
• G. (1972) by John Berger^[29]
• Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino^[37]
• Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard^[38]
• Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon^[39][16]
• Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut^[40]
• Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross^[41]
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick^[42]
• J R (1975) by William Gaddis^[43]
• The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme^[44]
• The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez^[45]
• American Splendor (1976-2008) by Harvey Pekar^[11]
• A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick^[18]
• If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino^[11][46]
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera^[11]

1980s

• Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie^[47]
• Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick^[48]
• Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme^[29]
• A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami^[49]
• The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco^[49]
• Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie^[50]
• Money (1984) by Martin Amis^[51]
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera^[52]
• Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson^[53]
• Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter^[54]
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1984) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson^[55]
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami^[56]
• Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai^[57]
• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo^[25][26]
• The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood^[58]
• The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster^[11]
• Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan^[59]
• Maus (1986) by Art Spiegelman^[11][32]
• Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee^[60]
• Watchmen (1986–87) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons^[61][32]
• Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison^[15]
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe^[62]
• Libra (1988) by Don Delillo^[63]
• Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson^[11]
• Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco^[64]
• Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami^[49]
• The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie^[5]

1990s

• The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk^[65]
• Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon^[66]
• Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian^[67]
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie^[68]
• American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis^[69]
• Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis^[70]
• The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers^[71]
• Mao II (1991) by Don Delillo^[72][68]
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland^[73]
• Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster^[4]
• Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson^[74]
• Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike^[75]
• Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović^[76]
• The House of Doctor Dee (1993) by Peter Ackroyd^[77]
• The Island of the Day Before (1994) by Umberto Eco^[78]
• Brazil (1994) by John Updike^[75]
• The Memory Police (1994) by Yōko Ogawa
• Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers^[79]
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami^[32]
• The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass^[11]
• Blindness (1995) by José Saramago^[80]
• The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara^[81]
• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace^[82]
• CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders^[83]
• Primeval and Other Times (1996) by Olga Tokarczuk^[84]
• Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo^[73]
• Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon^[85]
• Toward the End of Time (1997) by John Updike^[75]
• My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk^[86]
• Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis^[87]
• The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño^[88]
• Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem^[11]
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie^[89]
• The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead^[90]
• Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami^[91]
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler^[92]

2000s

• White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith^[32]
• Pastoralia (2000) by George Saunders^[93]
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon^[94]
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers^[29]
• House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski^[95]
• The Cave (2000) by José Saramago^[96]
• Baudolino (2000) by Umberto Eco^[97]
• Gertrude and Claudius (2000) by John Updike^[75]
• An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) by César Aira^[98]
• The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood^[99]
• number9dream (2001) by David Mitchell^[100]
• You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers^[101]
• The Double (2002) by José Saramago^[102]
• Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer^[11]
• Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk^[103]
• Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami^[104]
• VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell^[105]
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon^[4]
• Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee^[106]
• 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño^[4]
• Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell^[107]
• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco^[29]
• Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee^[108]
• JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland^[109]
• Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan^[110]
• In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders^[111]
• Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon^[112]
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon^[4]
• The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara^[81]
• Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon^[4]
• Generosity: An Enhancement (2009) by Richard Powers^[113]
• 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami^[114]
• Z213: Exit (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos^[115]

2010s

• Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen^[116]
• Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell^[117]
• A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan^[118]
• The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes^[119]
• The Angel Esmeralda (2011) by Don Delillo^[120]
• The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu^[121]
• The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace^[122]
• Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon^[123]
• A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James^[124]
• Satin Island (2015) by Tom McCarthy^[125]
• The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke^[126]
• Book of Numbers (2015) by Joshua Cohen^[127]
• The Familiar Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 (2015-2017) by Mark Z. Danielewski^[128]
• Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith^[50]
• The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead^[15]
• Moonglow (2016) by Michael Chabon^[129]
• 4 3 2 1 (2017) by Paul Auster^[130]
• Killing Commendatore (2017) by Haruki Murakami^[131]
• The White Book (2017) by Han Kang^[132]
• Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders^[133]
• theMystery.doc (2017) by Matthew McIntosh^[134]
• Ducks, Newburyport (2019) by Lucy Ellmann^[135]
• Quichotte (2019) by Salman Rushdie^[136]
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) by Marlon James^[137]

2020s

• Antkind (2020) by Charlie Kaufman^[138]
• Interior Chinatown (2020) by Charles Yu^[139]
• Otaku Girl (2021) by Louis Bulaong^[140]
• The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan^[141]
• Annihilation (2022) by Michel Houellebecq ^[142]
• Shadow Ticket (2025) by Thomas Pynchon^[143]
• Until the Victim Becomes our Own (2025) by Dimitris Lyacos

See also

• List of postmodern critics
• List of postmodern writers
• Postmodern literature
• Postmodern art
• Postmodern film and television
• Graphic novel
• Criticism of postmodernism
• Pop culture fiction
• Literary fiction