mimi10v3Books that alter the reading instrument itself—letters out of order, encyclopedic spirals, unstable cities, recursive conspiracies, and narratives whose difficulty is part of their subject.
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8/10Modern Literature : Experimental
The Mixquiahuala Letters
About the bookThis epistolary novel traces the evolving friendship between two Mexican American women, Chayo and Carmen, through a series of letters exchanged over several years. Set against the back…
5/10Modern Literature : ExperimentalInfinite Jest
About the bookSet against the backdrop of a near-future North America, this sprawling novel alternates between the lives of a dysfunctional family in a Canadian halfway house and the competitive circ…
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| Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | 1975 | — | Partly read | → |
| Foucault's Pendulum | Umberto Eco | 1988 | — | Unread | → |
| Ice | Anna Kavan | 1967 | — | Unread | → |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 1996 | 5 | Read | → |
| Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | 1972 | — | Unread | → |
| Lanark: A Life in Four Books | Alasdair Gray | 1981 | — | Unread | → |
| The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | 1966 | — | Unread | → |
| The Mixquiahuala Letters | Ana Castillo | 1986 | 8 | Read | → |
| Zero Degree | Charu Nivedita | 1998 | — | Unread | → |