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Essential Reading
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items These are the Postmodernist books you are going to need to digest one way or another in order to survive in the MetaModern world
Madness, murder, secret societies, ancient mysteries, self-publishing scams, blasphemous rumors, Italian childhood memories, and a Monty Python sense of humor. This may be what Dan Brown was shooting for.
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Ten beginnings with no endings, lovers caught in a global disaster, and the best example of “traduttore, traditore” – Italian for "a translator is a traitor."
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
A lost Greek island, an Oxford grad, and reality unraveling. It might be a Jungian noir novel with the ultimate femme fatale or “Eyes Wide Shut” under the endlessly sun on the Aegean. No one has ever figured this one out.
The Magus by John Fowles
Inspiration for the horror series “Alan Wake” and a multi-sensory chiller of a book. Listen to the author's sister Poe and her creepy songs as you terrify yourself to sleep.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The coming of age of a Nigerian kingpin in the 1890s. Brutal, sincere, and devastating.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
All the books you will ever need, by a former Yale professor and the most respected literary critic in Western civilization. The Apendices are just lists of the world's best book from every continent, broken down by eons. For when you have Time Enoug...
Western Canon - by Harold Bloom
Jung's theory in fictional form. You probably don't need to bother with any of the others in this series.
Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
In the rubble of this magnificent edifice complex, the foundations of the 21st century were poured. You could be lost in Faust's fever dream for the whole campfire story and not in any way prepared when Die Mauer roars out of its cave in the middle o...
Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
David Foster Wallace and Virginia Woolf combined can't match the insanely loopy tales within tales within tales, cultural references, stream of consciousness drivel, and outright lies of this masterpiece. Even if you came here for the Persian Wars, g...
The Histories by Herodotus
Someone left out the milk of human kindness overnight and it curdled.
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Lighten up. The end of the world is the beginning of a new one. A doomed king from the dark ages, olfactologists from modern Paris, the city of New Orleans, and a neglected god of the Ancient Hellenic mountainsides have all volunteered to be your pri...
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Gestures are more individual than people are. Don't take Kundera's word for it. See for yourself in this novel about memory, what is ephemeral, and what remains of us long after we are gone.
Immortality by Milan Kundera