Recs if you like Life: A User's Manual...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
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Books That Break The Rules
Books that ignore the traditional way of telling a story. These books tell their stories in unexpected ways, through letters, transcripts, diaries, documents, text messages, or unconventional layouts.
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experimental lit
books with an experimental structure or narrative choices, metafiction, oulipo, postmodernism, etc.
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Ergodic Literature
A list of ergodic books I've come across through time. Those books that go beyond words on a page and contain special elements and features that make reading a whole new experience!
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Ergodic Literature
Ergodic literature is a term coined by Espen J. Aarseth in his 1997 book Cybertext—Perspectives on Ergodic Literature to describe literature in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text.
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Bending The Rules - 50 Novels
Unconventional and experimental novels that play with syntax, style, narrative and structure Tristram Shandy - the grandfather of experimental Pale Fire - intertwines a poem and commentary Dictionary of the Khazars - in the form of a dictionary Man Eating typewriter - written in Polari Exercises in style - 99 retellings of the same story Hopscotch - designed to be read in multiple ways If on a winter’s night a traveller - a story within a story within a…
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OBC Buddy Reads 2025
All buddy reads taking place in the Organized Book Club discord starting and/or ending in 2025. The list will be updated throughout the year.
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ergodic lit and other odd books
"ergodic literature is a mode of textual organization in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text, beyond ordinary eye movement or turning pages." - espen j. aarseth
books with unique formatting, books you can play like a game, books you need to take apart and put back together again, stories-within-stories, books containing found documents and ephemera, etc.
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Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (Encyclopedic Novels)
The encyclopedic novel is a genre of complex literary fiction which incorporates elements across a wide range of scientific, academic, and literary subjects. Here I'm trying to collect noteworthy examples of this type of novel. Be patient with me, this is my first list.
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Eccentric literature
Narration interrupted by the narrator, bawdy humor, irreverence, plot development prioritized over content, genre failure, parody... If you can think of other titles, they are welcome to the list!
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