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Richard McGuire · 2014 · US · graphic novel
★ 4.18 Goodreads · 18,282 ratings

A graphic novel that stays in one corner of one room across hundreds of millions of years, layering moments from the Cretaceous to the far future.

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Building Stories

Chris Ware · 2012 · US 99% match ★ 4.33 Goodreads · 7,451 ratings
shares: domestic, graphic novel, ambitious, experimental · unhurried, experimental

A box containing fourteen pamphlets, books, broadsheets, and foldouts that together form the life of an unnamed woman in a small Chicago apartment building.

Rusty Brown

Chris Ware · 2019 · US 98% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 3,910 ratings
shares: graphic novel, ambitious, experimental · unhurried, experimental

Set at a Nebraska private school across decades, Ware's mosaic novel gives each chapter to a different character in orbit around the lonely Rusty Brown.

Clyde Fans

Seth · 2019 · Canada 90% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 1,800 ratings
shares: meditative, graphic novel · unhurried, plain prose

Twenty years in the making, a quiet graphic novel about two bachelor brothers inheriting an obsolete Toronto electric-fan company and the rooms it leaves them with.

The Candy House

Jennifer Egan · 2022 · US 90% match ★ 3.64 Goodreads · 70,421 ratings
shares: ambitious, experimental, non linear · experimental, clear-cut

The companion to A Visit from the Goon Squad: a vast network of characters connected by technology, consciousness, and the question of what happens to the self when it's captured in data.

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty · 2022 · US 89% match ★ 3.50 Goodreads · 40,399 ratings
shares: inventive, ambitious · unhurried, experimental

In the last summer of a decaying Indiana tenement called La Lapinière, a 19-year-old foster-care graduate and her three male housemates try to hold a life together.

Feeding Ghosts

Tessa Hulls · 2024 · US 88% match ★ 4.40 Goodreads · 4,308 ratings
shares: inventive, graphic novel · unhurried, epic

An American artist draws three generations of her Chinese-American family through mental illness, the Cultural Revolution, and a long, prickly inheritance.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis · 2009 · US 88% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 7,246 ratings
shares: experimental · experimental, idea-driven

Lydia Davis's four collections in one book: stories that run from a single sentence to a few dozen pages, about marriage, mothers, grammar, dinner and the workings of a mind.

Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1985 · US 86% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 4,961 ratings
shares: inventive, ambitious, experimental · unhurried, experimental

A future California tribe lives in a valley of the Na, and their anthropologist from a further future tries to record their way of life before it vanishes.

Monica

Daniel Clowes · 2023 · US 86% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 5,980 ratings
shares: graphic novel, experimental · experimental, unhurried

A woman assembles the story of her mother through cults, horror comics, war stories, and genre experiments, searching for a self Clowes keeps rearranging.

Apeirogon

Colum McCann · 2020 · Ireland 86% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 28,392 ratings
shares: ambitious, experimental · experimental, unhurried

A Palestinian father and an Israeli father, both of whom have lost daughters to the conflict, drive the territory of their shared loss across a thousand numbered fragments.

Acting Class

Nick Drnaso · 2022 · US 86% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 2,938 ratings
shares: graphic novel · plain prose, unhurried

Ten strangers join a free acting class led by a cryptic teacher and follow him, exercise by exercise, into a shared, undefended unreality.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris · 2017 · US 81% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 28,020 ratings
shares: graphic novel · unhurried, experimental

In 1960s Chicago, a ten-year-old girl who draws herself as a werewolf investigates the murder of her Holocaust-survivor upstairs neighbour in a spiral notebook full of wolf-eyes.