Recs if you like Lost in the Funhouse...

Apophenia: the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated or random things and events

books with an experimental structure or narrative choices, metafiction, oulipo, postmodernism, etc.

Here's a list of every book I studied, read, or was reccomended to read as part of my Writing and Literature BA - for eager academics, fellow writers & nostagic graduates💕 Let's milk my education💪

Books that exhibit key traits of, or helped develop, the Postmodern literary movement.

Not including criticism or theory.

Research trigger warnings before reading.

(Recommendations welcome)

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…

When I started college, I quickly realised that I never read short stories. This list is reserved for the very best short story collections I've come across, both through my course and personal determination to change that! Short stories are a beautiful and satisfying form and amazing when you're stuck in a reading slump. They are also great inspo for writers like me to keep on their desk! All genres, please leave your recs in the comments!❤

Books that kinda scratch the Pynchon itch. Pls suggest more