- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- All Fall Down – Mary Caponegro
- A Prank of Georges – Thalia Field & Abigail Lang
- As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
- Asterios Polyp – David Mazzucchelli
- At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
- Autumn of the Patriarch – Garbriel García Márquez
- Berg – Ann Quin
- Big Questions – Anders Nilsen
- Bone – Jeff Smith
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- Dies: a Sentence – Vanessa Place
- Epileptic – David B.
- Europeana – Patrik Ourdenik
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
- Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
- Hey, Wait… – Jason
- Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- Jimmy Corrigan – Chris Ware
- Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
- Memories of My Father Watching T.V. – Curtis White
- Minor Angels – Antoine Volodine
- Molloy – Samuel Beckett
- Motorman – David Ohle
- Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
- 60 Stories – Donald Barthelme
- Sleepers Awake – Kenneth Patchen
- Souls of the Labadie Tract – Susan Howe
- Stories in the Worst Way – Gary Lutz
- Take Five – D. Keith Mano
- Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein
- The Age of Wire and String – Ben Marcus
- The Art Lover – Carole Maso
- The BFG – Roald Dahl
- The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
- The Epileptic Bicycle – Edward Gorey
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman – Lawrence Stern
- The Log of the SS Mrs Unguentine – Stanley Crawford
- The Magic Kingdom – Stanley Elkin
- The People of Paper – Salvador Plascencia
- The Regular Man – Dina Kelberman
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
- The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
- The Wavering Knife – Brian Evenson
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- Underworld – Don DeLillo
- Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
Editor’s Note: This list is part of Big Other’s Tribute to William H. Gass’s 88th Birthday.
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