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
 * 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
 * Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov
 * Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick

1970s

 * The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard
 * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
 * G. (1972) by John Berger
 * Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
 * Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard
 * Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
 * Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut
 * Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross
 * Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick
 * J R (1975) by William Gaddis
 * The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme
 * The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez
 * American Splendor (1976-2008) by Harvey Pekar
 * A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick
 * If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
 * The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera

1980s

 * Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
 * Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick
 * Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme
 * A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami
 * Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie
 * Money (1984) by Martin Amis
 * The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera
 * Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
 * Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter
 * The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1984) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
 * Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami
 * Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai
 * White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
 * The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
 * The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster
 * Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan
 * Maus (1986) by Art Spiegelman
 * Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee
 * Watchmen (1986–87) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
 * Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
 * The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe
 * Libra (1988) by Don Delillo
 * Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson
 * Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco
 * Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami
 * The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie

1990s

 * 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
 * Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (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
 * Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
 * CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders
 * 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
 * VAS: An Opera in Flatland (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
 * Generosity: An Enhancement (2009) by Richard Powers
 * 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami
 * Z213: Exit (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos

2010s

 * Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen
 * Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell
 * A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan
 * The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes
 * The Angel Esmeralda (2011) by Don Delillo
 * The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu
 * The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace
 * Ready Player One (2011) by Ernest Cline
 * Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon
 * A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James
 * The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke
 * Book of Numbers (2015) by Joshua Cohen
 * The Familiar Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 (2015-2017) by Mark Z. Danielewski
 * Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith
 * The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead
 * Moonglow (2016) by Michael Chabon
 * 4 3 2 1 (2017) by Paul Auster
 * Killing Commendatore (2017) by Haruki Murakami
 * The White Book (2017) by Han Kang
 * Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders
 * Ducks, Newburyport (2019) by Lucy Ellmann
 * Quichotte (2019) by Salman Rushdie
 * Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) by Marlon James

2020s

 * Antkind (2020) by Charlie Kaufman
 * Interior Chinatown (2020) by Charles Yu
 * Otaku Girl (2021) by Louis Bulaong
 * The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan