Recs if you like The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
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HRCYED 3.0 x Pagebound Quests (Titles Edition)
If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!
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experimental lit
books with an experimental structure or narrative choices, metafiction, oulipo, postmodernism, etc.
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Books in The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
These books are mentioned in the book The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop (plus I added the book itself)
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The Guardian’s The 100 Best Novels of All Time
A list published by The Guardian on 5/16/2026, as voted on by authors, critics, and academics worldwide.
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Top 100 Books! (According to The Guardian)
The Guardian Top 100 Best Novels
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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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Backlisted
Books that were featured on an episode of Backlisted.
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The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of All Time
In May 2026 the Guardian published a list of the 100 greatest novels published in English of all time. The list was created based on votes from authors, critics, and academics.
Due to an error, the list originally included The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley instead of The Stranger by Albert Camus. Both are included here, as an unofficial 101 best novels
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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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The punisher
All of the books featured or seen in the “The punisher” show
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Stream of consciousness works
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The Telegraph’s “50 greatest books of all time”
On August 9, 2026, The Telegraph published a list of “The 50 greatest books of all time” by Jake Kerridge
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