Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order:
Proto-postmodern and early postmodern novels (pre-1950)
Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann HesseFrom Anti-humanism to Posthumanism: Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf Orlando: A Biography (1928) by Virginia WoolfZs Fictional Biographies, Orlando and Flush as Prefigures of Posrtmodernism The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William FaulknerInterpreting Faulkner in a Postmodern Age Flush: A Biography (1933) by Virginia Woolf Invitation to a Beheading (1936) by Vladimir NabokovО философском аспекте романа Владимира Набокова «Приглашение на казнь» Professor Dowell's Head (1937) by Alexander BelyaevМихаил Елизаров. Постмодернизм как культурная спекуляция Finnegans Wake (1939) by James JoyceFinnegans Wake: A Postmodern Approach At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien The Master and Margarita (1940) by Mikhail BulgakovПостмодернисткий аспект творчества М.А. Булгакова The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) by Vladimir NabokovThe Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov - Coodreads The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann HesseManifestations of Postmodernism in Hermann Hesse's Novel “The Glass Bead Game” Bend Sinister (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov(PDF) Nabokov's Freedom: An Uneven Battle against the Sinister Narrator(PDF) Nabokov's Amphiphorical Gestures The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes
1950s
Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett Malone Dies (1951) by Samuel Beckett Player Piano (1952) by Kurt VonnegutCybernetics In Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano Junkie (1953) by William S. Burroughs| USA Postmodernism The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett Lord of the Flies (1954) by William GoldingAn Investigation of Postmodern Stylistic Elements in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis The Floating Opera (1956) by John Barth On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac The End of the Road (1958) by John Barth Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
1960s
The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller The Lime Twig (1961) by John HawkesContemporary Literature 32.1 (Spring 1991) Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar Second Skin (1964) by John HawkesOn John Hawkes and Second Skin The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon Snow White (1967) by Donald BarthelmePostmodernist Remakes of the Fairy-Tale: Donald Barthelme's Snow White and John Barth's 'Dunyazadiad' One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García MárquezElements of postmodernism in One Hundred Years of Solitude by G.G.Marquez Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) by Robert Coover Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick
1970s
Moscow-Petushki (1970) by Venedikt Yerofeyev10 величайших романов 1970-х The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) by J. G. Ballard Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson Chimera (1972) by John Barth(DOC) Book review: "Chimera" by John Barth(PDF) Postmodernist Remakes of the Fairy-Tale: Donald Barthelme's Snow White and John Barth's 'Dunyazadiad'(PDF) Dunyazadiad: The Parody of The Arabian Nights G. (1972) by John Berger Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ishmael Reed Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut Look at the Harlequins! (1974) by Vladimir NabokovThe Metafictional Realm in Vladimir Nabokov's "Look at the Harlequins!" Oreo (1974) by Fran RossDanzy Senna: An overlooked classic about the comedy of race|The New Yorker Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick Terra Nostra (1975) by Carlos Fuentes J R (1975) by William Gaddis The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez A School for Fools (1976) by Sasha SokolovОтклики симультанизма в постмодернистской прозе ( Школа для дураков С. Соколова) A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving[https://jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806825.pdf The analysis of Postmodern aspects in John Irving The World According to Garp] If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera
1980s
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco Between Dog and Wolf (1980) by Sasha Sokolov(PDF) Between Dog and Wolf Coin Locker Babies(1980) by Ryu Murakami Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman RushdieOF THE HISTORY ALTERNATIVE AND PARTIAL HI STORIES IN JULIAN BARNESS A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 101 2 CHAPTERS AND SALMAN RUSHDIES MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN| DEATH OF “THE” HISTORY: ALTERNATIVE AND PARTIAL (HI)STORIES IN JULIAN BARNES’S A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS AND SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami The Queue (1983) by Vladimir SorokinThe Queue by Vladimir Sorokin Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie Money (1984) by Martin Amis The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1984) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson Palisandriia (1985) by Sasha SokolovTrauma of the symbolic order in the novel Palisandriya by Sasha Sokolov Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret AtwoodFeminism, Postmodernism, and The Handmaid's Tale - Villanova University The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan Kashira Highway (1986) by Andrei Monastyrski Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe Pushkin House (1987) by Andrei BitovНачало постмодерна Libra (1988) by Don Delillo Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989) by Julian BarnesOF THE HISTORY ALTERNATIVE AND PARTIAL HI STORIES IN JULIAN BARNESS A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 101 2 CHAPTERS AND SALMAN RUSHDIES MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN| DEATH OF “THE” HISTORY: ALTERNATIVE AND PARTIAL (HI)STORIES IN JULIAN BARNES’S A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS AND SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
1990s
The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers Mao II (1991) by Don Delillo Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović The House of Doctor Dee (1993) by Peter Ackroyd Roman (1994) by Vladimir Sorokin The Island of the Day Before (1994) by Umberto Eco The Norm (1994) by Vladimir Sorokin Brazil (1994) by John Updike Their Four Hearts (1994) by Vladimir SorokinРусский постмодерн, бессмысленный и беспощадный (о книгах Владимира Сорокина «Сердца четырех» и «Пир») Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami Marina’s 30th Love (1995) by Vladimir Sorokin The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass Blindness (1995) by José Saramago The Lost Scrapbook (1995) by Evan Dara Chapaev and Void (1996) by Victor PelevinИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ РОМАН В ПОСТМОДЕРНИСТСКОМ ИСПОЛНЕНИИ: ВИКТОР ПЕЛЕВИН «ЧАПАЕВ И ПУСТОТА» CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) by George Saunders Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace Primeval and Other Times (1996) by Olga Tokarczuk Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon Toward the End of Time (1997) by John Updike The Infinite Deadlock (1997) by Dmitry Galkovsky My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk Glamorama (1998) by Bret Easton Ellis The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami Blue Lard (1999) by Vladimir SorokinВладимир Сорокин: Голубое сало Generation P (1999) by Victor PelevinV. PELEVIN'S POSTMODERN DYSTOPIA “GENERATION П” A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler
2000s
White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith Pastoralia (2000) by George Saunders The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski The Cave (2000) by José Saramago Baudolino (2000) by Umberto Eco Gertrude and Claudius (2000) by John Updike An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) by César Aira The Blind Assassin (2001) by Margaret Atwood number9dream (2001) by David Mitchell Fingernails (2001) by Mikhail ElizarovМИХАИЛ ЕЛИЗАРОВ: МЕЖДУ ПОСТМОДЕРНИЗМОМ И «МАГИЧЕСКИМ РЕАЛИЗМОМ» (НОГТИ, БИБЛИОТЕКАРЬ, МУЛЬТИКИ) You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Dave Eggers The Double (2002) by José Saramago Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon Empire V (2006) by Victor Pelevin The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon The Librarian (2007) by Mikhail Elizarov The Easy Chain (2008) by Evan Dara Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon Generosity: An Enhancement (2009) by Richard Powers 1Q84 (2009-2010) by Haruki Murakami Z213: Exit (2009-2018) by Dimitris Lyacos t (2009) by Victor Pelevin
2010s
Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen Cartoons (2010) by Mikhail Elizarov Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace Die Zeit, die Zeit (2012) by Martin SuterLiterarische Konzepte von Zeit nach dem Ende der Postmoderne Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon Batman Apollo (2013) by Victor Pelevin A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James Satin Island (2015) by Tom McCarthy The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke Book of Numbers (2015) by Joshua Cohen The Familiar Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 (2015-2017) by Mark Z. Danielewski