List of postmodern novels

Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:

Proto-postmodern and Early postmodern novels

• A Universal History of Infamy (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges
• At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
• The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien
• Ficciones (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes
• The Aleph (1949) by Jorge Luis Borges

1950s

• Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett
• The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett
• The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
• On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
• Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs
• The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass

1960s

• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
• Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
• Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
• The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
• Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut
• V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
• Blow-up and Other Stories (1963) by Julio Cortázar
• Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick
• Cosmicomics (1965) by Italo Calvino
• In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
• Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal
• The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover
• Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
• ' (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov
• Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick

• The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk
• Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon
• Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie
• American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
• Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis
• The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers
• Mao II (1991) by Don Delillo
• ' (1991) by Douglas Coupland
• Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster
• Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
• Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike
• Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović
• The House of Doctor Dee (1993) by Peter Ackroyd
• The Island of the Day Before (1994) by Umberto Eco
• Brazil (1994) by John Updike
• The Memory Police (1994) by Yōko Ogawa
• Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami
• The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass
• Blindness (1995) by José Saramago
• The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara
• CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders
• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
• Primeval and Other Times (1996) by Olga Tokarczuk
• Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
• Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
• Toward the End of Time (1997) by John Updike
• My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk
• Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño
• Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie
• The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead
• Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler

2000s

• White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
• Pastoralia (2000) by George Saunders
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers
• House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Cave (2000) by José Saramago
• Baudolino (2000) by Umberto Eco
• Gertrude and Claudius (2000) by John Updike
• An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) by César Aira
• The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood
• number9dream (2001) by David Mitchell
• You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers
• The Double (2002) by José Saramago
• Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk
• Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami
• ' (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon
• Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee
• 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
• Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell
• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco
• Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee
• JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland
• Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan
• In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders
• Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon
• The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara
• Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon
• ' (2009) by Richard Powers
• 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami
• ' (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos