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Description: These are books that contain a story within a story or otherwise do something interesting with the narrative structure.

Rank Title Author Added

1

13,157 members

294 reviews

4

7 Members: thorold, jburlinson, roby72, sturlington, Twixi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by William Shakespeare

33,784 members

296 reviews

4.2

6 Members: aulsmith, jburlinson, sturlington, CGlanovsky, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

19,482 members

486 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, CGlanovsky, ahef1963, Michael.Rimmer, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,683 members

383 reviews

3.9

6 Members: thorold, roby72, sturlington, souloftherose, Twixi, ahef1963

5

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,804 members

260 reviews

4

6 Members: thorold, jburlinson, roby72, CGlanovsky, Twixi, ahef1963

6

by Mary Shelley

44,082 members

721 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, sturlington, souloftherose, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,581 members

168 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, jburlinson, sturlington, ahef1963

8

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

21,006 members

464 reviews

4.2

5 Members: roby72, Twixi, ahef1963, Michael.Rimmer, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)

1,070 members

8 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, jburlinson, roby72, sturlington, Twixi

10

26,864 members

630 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, Twixi, ahef1963

11

The Name of the Rose

19,916 members

310 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, Twixi, ahef1963

12

by David Mitchell

18,061 members

683 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, CGlanovsky, Twixi

13

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,354 members

913 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, Twixi, ahef1963

14

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

30,344 members

337 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: aulsmith, jburlinson, roby72

15

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

18,228 members

373 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, Twixi, ahef1963

16

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,626 members

107 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, ahef1963

17

4,879 members

77 reviews

3.8

3 Members: CGlanovsky, Twixi, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Book of Illusions

4,298 members

79 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CGlanovsky, Twixi, ahef1963

19

Travels in the Scriptorium

2,074 members

66 reviews

3.2

3 Members: CGlanovsky, Twixi, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]

by Miguel de Cervantes

567 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: roby72, Twixi, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

25,436 members

536 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, souloftherose

22

by Jostein Gaarder

19,086 members

286 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963

23

by Cornelia Funke

18,723 members

514 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, aspirit

24

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

16,064 members

380 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Stephen King

15,779 members

216 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

26

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

14,380 members

268 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963

27

The Neverending Story

by Michael Ende

12,410 members

230 reviews

4.1

2 Members: souloftherose, aspirit

28

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

9,191 members

321 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963

29

by Henry Fielding

8,281 members

94 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jburlinson, ManWithAnAgenda

30

6,735 members

70 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Sandman: A Game of You

6,110 members

82 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: CGlanovsky, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

32

by Anthony Horowitz

4,062 members

234 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, souloftherose

33

Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introductory Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of the Nights. 17 Vols.

by Richard F. Burton

2 members

3 Members: CGlanovsky, Twixi, bluepiano,sturlington

34

by Markus Zusak

46,172 members

2,138 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963,sturlington

35

by Richard Adams

25,471 members

474 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Louis Sachar

23,935 members

953 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

37

by Elizabeth Kostova

21,740 members

757 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963,sturlington

38

Metamorphoses [in translation]

13,581 members

101 reviews

4.1

Member: CGlanovsky

39

by Cornelia Funke

11,398 members

168 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

40

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland

5,445 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Travels of Marco Polo

5,233 members

55 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jburlinson

42

3,464 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: Osbaldistone

43

3,200 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CGlanovsky

44

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

1,620 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

45

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,137 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

46

by Kim Stanley Robinson

679 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

47

by Alex Landragin

564 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Ring and the Book

by Robert Browning

550 members

4 reviews

4

Member: jburlinson

49

Il Pentamerone: The Tale of Tales

by Giambattista Basile

444 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 2

by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

424 members

5 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: aspirit

51

A Girl Is a Body of Water

by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

413 members

20 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Arabian Nightmare

by Robert Irwin

396 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: Michael.Rimmer

53

Bracebridge Hall

by Washington Irving

163 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jburlinson

54

Architect of Ruins

by Herbert Rosendorfer

132 members

1 review

3.9

Member: bluepiano

55

The Infinite Future

77 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Breath of Night

by Michael Arditti

28 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

57

R My Name is Rosie

by Barbara Cohen

22 members

5

Member: bookel

58

The Power of Sympathy

by William Hill Brown

12 members

½ 1.5

Member: jburlinson

59

Trapped (Spider's Child)

by Jessica Pierce

10 members

Member: bookel

60

Flashflood (Spider's Child)

by Jessica Pierce

9 members

Member: bookel

61

Keeper (Spider's Child Volume 2)

by Jessica Pierce

7 members

Member: bookel

62

by Bolesław Prus

Member: jburlinson

63

54,310 members

462 reviews

4

Member: jburlinson,sturlington

64

Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition

by Herman Melville

129 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, Twixi,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

65

by Daniel Clowes

1,055 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

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Started: sturlington
November 2013
Type: Unnumbered

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