Books like The History of the Siege of Lisbon
A proofreader inserts a 'not' into a history book, changing a siege's outcome, and the act of literary vandalism opens a door to love and imagination.
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Death with Interruptions
On New Year's Day in an unnamed country, death stops killing, and as the old fail to die, the funeral industry collapses and the church panics, until death returns with new rules.
Asymmetry
Two stories that seem unconnected, a young editor's affair with a much older, famous writer and an Iraqi-American economist held at Heathrow airport, turn out to speak to each other.
Baltasar and Blimunda
In eighteenth-century Portugal, a one-handed war veteran and a woman who can see inside people's bodies help a renegade priest build a flying machine while the king raises a vast convent and the Inquisition watches.
If on a winter's night a traveler
A Reader begins a novel called If on a winter's night a traveler, but the book keeps breaking off and restarting as a different novel, ten times.
Mantissa
A novelist confined to a hospital bed is attended by a muse who transforms into different women, in Fowles' most experimental and playful novel.
Daniel Martin
A middle-aged screenwriter retreats to the English countryside and Devon, reflecting on a lifetime of creative compromise and lost love.
Hopscotch
An Argentine intellectual drifts through bohemian 1950s Paris with his lover La Maga and then returns to Buenos Aires, in a novel that can be read straight through or by hopping among its chapters.
Erasure
Thelonious Ellison, a Black experimental novelist told his work is not Black enough, writes a grotesque parody of a ghetto novel under a pseudonym, and it becomes a bestseller.
10:04
A Brooklyn poet who has just sold a novel, and just learned he has a heart condition that could kill him, agrees to help his best friend have a baby, in the year between two hurricanes.
Nazi Literature in the Americas
A fake reference work of thirty invented right-wing Americas writers, their books and journals and enemies, by the author who turned bibliography into menace.
Tristram Shandy
Tristram Shandy sets out to tell the story of his life and keeps getting sidetracked by digressions, opinions, black pages and his Uncle Toby's hobbyhorses, in the most modern novel of the eighteenth century.
Biography of X
After the death of her wife, a famous and secretive artist known only as X, a journalist sets out to write her biography, in an alternate America that was split apart after World War II.