And now: The 61 essential postmodern reads!

• Kathy Acker's "In Memorium to Identity"
• Donald Antrim's "The Hundred Brothers"
• Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin"
• Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
• Nicholson Baker's "The Mezzanine"
• J.G. Ballard's "The Atrocity Exhibition"
• John Barth's "Giles Goat-Boy"
• Donald Barthelme's "60 Stories"
• John Berger's "G"
• Thomas Bernhard's "The Loser"
• Roberto Bolaño's "2666"
• Jorge Luis Borges' "Labyrinths"
• William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch"
• Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"
• Italo Calvino's "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"
• Julio Cortazar's "Hopscotch"
• Robert Coover's "The Universal Baseball *Association, Henry J. Waugh, Proprietor"
• Stanley Crawford's "Log of the S.S. Mrs. Unguentine"
• Mark Danielewski's "House of Leaves"
• Don Delillo's "Great Jones Street"
• Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle"
• E.L. Doctorow's "City of God"
• Geoff Dyer's "Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D. H. Lawrence"
• Umberto Eco's "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana"
• Dave Eggers' "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
• Steve Erickson's "Tours of the Black Clock"
• Percival Everett's "I Am Not Sidney Poitier"
• William Faulkner's "Absalom! Absalom!"
• Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything Is Illuminated"
• William Gaddis' "JR"
• William Gass' "The Tunnel"
• John Hawkes' "The Lime Twig"
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
• Aleksandar Hemon's "The Lazarus Project"
• Michael Herr's "Dispatches"
• Shelley Jackson's "Skin"
• Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis"
• ✔ Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
• Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn"
• Ben Marcus' "Notable American Women"
• David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress"
• Tom McCarthy's "Remainde
• Joseph McElroy's "Women and Men"
• Steven Millhauser's "Edwin Mullhouse"
• Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
• Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire"
• Flann O'Brien's "At Swim-Two-Birds"
• Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"
• Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor"
• Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"
• Philip Roth's "The Counterlife"
• W.G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn"
• ✔ William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
• Gilbert Sorrentino's "Mulligan Stew"
• Christopher Sorrentino's "Trance"
• ✔ Art Spiegelman's Maus I & II
• Laurence Stern's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy"
• Scarlett Thomas' "PopCo"
• ✔ Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"
• David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest"
• Colson Whitehead's "John Henry Days"