Experimental & Avant-Garde

Form as the first question, not the last. Work that distrusts the conventional novel in any decade — constraint, collage and language pushed forward until reading becomes part of the labour.

On the The Literary Shelf shelf.

Books shelved as Experimental & Avant-Garde

• Losing the Plot — Derek Owusu
• The Wake — Paul Kingsnorth
• Beast — Paul Kingsnorth
• Alexandria — Paul Kingsnorth
• Fury — Clyo Mendoza
• Desperdigados por el mundo — Yoko Tawada
• Daughter of Rot — Rios de la Luz
• Under a Fur Coat — Sonya Vatomsky
• House of Leaves — Mark Z. Danielewski
• They Will Dream in the Garden — Gabriela Damián Miravete
• Grief is the Thing with Feathers — Max Porter
• The Fifth Wound — Aurora Mattia
• Baba Yagá puso un huevo — Dubravka Ugrešić
• Slug and Other Stories — Megan Milks
• Coup de Grâce — Sofia Ajram
• El hombre hembra — Joanna Russ
• El libro vacío. Los años falsos — Josefina Vicens
• The White Book — Han Kang
• Hojas rojas — Can Xue
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler — Italo Calvino
• Shriek: An Afterword — Jeff VanderMeer
• Material Inflamable — Rosa Ramírez Mazaheri
• Organ Meats — K-Ming Chang
• The Resurrectionist — E. B. Hudspeth

Related genres

• Literary Fiction
• Classics
• Psychological Fiction
• Contemporary Fiction
• Short Fiction
• Magical Realism
• Philosophical Fiction
• Cult Fiction
• Anthology
• Metafiction
• Surrealism
• Epistolary Fiction
• Existential
• Postmodern
• Modernist
• Symbolist
• Hopeful Fiction

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