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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 109,165 ratings — published 1979
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,459,635 ratings — published 1969
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 193,649 ratings — published 2000
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 136,423 ratings — published 2001
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 56,379 ratings — published 1962
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 939,795 ratings — published 1973
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 51 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 85,098 ratings — published 1987
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 276,407 ratings — published 1973
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 264,078 ratings — published 2004
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 45 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 115,806 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 389,678 ratings — published 1980
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 277,114 ratings — published 1991
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 217,389 ratings — published 1979
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 55,777 ratings — published 2002
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 161,915 ratings — published 2000
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,078 ratings — published 1969
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 299,350 ratings — published 1615
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,331 ratings — published 2013
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,137 ratings — published 1939
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,344 ratings — published 2001
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 76,788 ratings — published 1944
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 439,922 ratings — published 2003
Possession (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 83,475 ratings — published 1990
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,166 ratings — published 2003
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,349,559 ratings — published 1985
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 99,422 ratings — published 1996
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 92,338 ratings — published 1967
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 94,614 ratings — published 1972
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 94,497 ratings — published 1966
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
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avg rating 4.16 — 35,797 ratings — published 2004
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
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avg rating 4.02 — 27,379 ratings — published 2007
Lost in the Funhouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.68 — 6,657 ratings — published 1968
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 21,415 ratings — published 2007
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 940,843 ratings — published 2023
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,027,019 ratings — published 1601
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 926,032 ratings — published 1955
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,457 ratings — published 2011
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 132,664 ratings — published 2013
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,981,687 ratings — published 1979
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 33,415 ratings — published 1962
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 74,038 ratings — published 1988
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 22,803 ratings — published 1767
Life of Pi (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,734,939 ratings — published 2001
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 3,627 ratings — published 2012
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 20,027 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,748,783 ratings — published 1953
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 339,351 ratings — published 1990
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 442,826 ratings — published 1817
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 251,284 ratings — published 2004
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 703,302 ratings — published 2001
“How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly.
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot device.”
― Glamorama
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot device.”
― Glamorama
“No, I realize Hektor was just another rando bit player on whatever bullshit 'hero's journey' you think you've been on. But when this is over, you'll finally realize that you're not even the star of your own story. You're a goddam black hole.”
― Saga #49
― Saga #49
