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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

12,972 members

289 reviews

4

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

2

by William Shakespeare

31,072 members

292 reviews

4.2

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

3

19,174 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

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

4

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,480 members

384 reviews

3.9

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

5

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,542 members

258 reviews

4.1

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

6

by Mary Shelley

42,771 members

714 reviews

3.8

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

7

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,039 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

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

8

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,461 members

466 reviews

4.2

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

9

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)

1,049 members

8 reviews

3.9

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

10

26,534 members

629 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, Twixi, ahef1963

11

The Name of the Rose

19,549 members

312 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, Twixi, ahef1963

12

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,745 members

683 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, CGlanovsky, Twixi

13

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,233 members

911 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, Twixi, ahef1963

14

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,579 members

331 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: aulsmith, jburlinson, roby72

15

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,894 members

370 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, Twixi, ahef1963

16

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,545 members

108 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, ahef1963

17

4,778 members

75 reviews

3.8

3 Members: CGlanovsky, Twixi, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Book of Illusions

4,248 members

79 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CGlanovsky, Twixi, ahef1963

19

Travels in the Scriptorium

2,052 members

67 reviews

3.2

3 Members: CGlanovsky, Twixi, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]

by Miguel de Cervantes

562 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: roby72, Twixi, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

24,906 members

531 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, souloftherose

22

by Jostein Gaarder

18,748 members

289 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963

23

by Cornelia Funke

18,268 members

521 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, aspirit

24

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,742 members

377 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Stephen King

15,361 members

207 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

26

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

14,260 members

267 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963

27

The Neverending Story

by Michael Ende

12,122 members

227 reviews

4.1

2 Members: souloftherose, aspirit

28

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

9,080 members

317 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963

29

by Henry Fielding

8,132 members

95 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jburlinson, ManWithAnAgenda

30

6,537 members

70 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Sandman: A Game of You

6,041 members

81 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: CGlanovsky, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

32

by Anthony Horowitz

3,853 members

236 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

44,993 members

2,126 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963,sturlington

35

by Richard Adams

24,938 members

472 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Louis Sachar

23,259 members

951 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

37

by Elizabeth Kostova

21,495 members

759 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Twixi, ahef1963,sturlington

38

Metamorphoses [in translation]

13,236 members

101 reviews

4.1

Member: CGlanovsky

39

by Cornelia Funke

11,080 members

172 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

40

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland

5,373 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Travels of Marco Polo

5,075 members

55 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jburlinson

42

3,306 members

87 reviews

3.8

Member: Osbaldistone

43

3,170 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CGlanovsky

44

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

1,580 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

45

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,107 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

46

by Kim Stanley Robinson

668 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

47

The Ring and the Book

by Robert Browning

543 members

4 reviews

4

Member: jburlinson

48

by Alex Landragin

535 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

Il Pentamerone: The Tale of Tales

by Giambattista Basile

430 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

A Girl is A Body of Water

by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

394 members

19 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Arabian Nightmare

by Robert Irwin

388 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: Michael.Rimmer

52

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

by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

355 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: aspirit

53

Bracebridge Hall

by Washington Irving

148 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jburlinson

54

Architect of Ruins

by Herbert Rosendorfer

127 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

The Power of Sympathy

by William Hill Brown

12 members

½ 1.5

Member: jburlinson

58

by Bolesław Prus

Member: jburlinson

59

53,251 members

475 reviews

4

Member: jburlinson,sturlington

60

Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition

by Herman Melville

128 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, Twixi,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

61

by Daniel Clowes

1,039 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

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November 2013
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