Some smart people I know on Facebook crowdsourced this list. A lot of these books/authors I know, and a lot of them I don’t. Based on what I know of the former, I’m dying to read the latter.
Texts as image:
Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa
Guillaume Apollinaire’s Calligrammes, etc.
Jen Bervin’s Nets
William Blake’s oeuvre
Christian Bök’s Crystallography
Anne Carson’s Nox
Jacques Derrida’s Glas
Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, etc.
Andy Devine’s Words
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes
William H. Gass’s Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, The Tunnel, and “Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop’s”
Mallarmé, Un coup de dès
Tom Phillips’s A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel
Vincenz Serrano’s The Collapse of What Separates Us
Stephen Farrell and Steve Tomasula’s VAS: An Opera in Flatland: A Novel
Robert Walser’s microscripts
Derek White’s oeuvre
Texts with images:
Kōbō Abe’s The Box Man
Walter Abish’s 99: The New Meaning
Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School
Louis Aragon’s Paris Peasant
Christoph Benda’s Senghor on the Rocks
Yves Bonnefoy’s The Arrière-pays
Andre Breton’s Nadja
Claude Cahun’s Disavowal
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s oeuvre
Debra Di Blasi’s The Jirí Chronicles
Lydia Davis’s Cows
Fielding Dawson’s oeuvre
Umberto Eco’s Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
John Gardner’s Mickelsson’s Ghosts
Kathleen Hill’s Who Occupies This House?
John Holten’s The Readymades
Susan Howe’s The Midnight
Laura Ellen Joyce’s The Luminol Reels
Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies
Thomas McGonigle’s Going to Patchogue
Carole Maso’s The Art Lover
John Berger and Anne Michael’s Railtracks
Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel
Wright Morris’s The Home Place and Plains Song
Lance Olsen’s Theories of Forgetting
Lise Patt’s oeuvre
Georges Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte
Jacques Roubaud’s Great Fire of London
Raymond Roussel’s New Impressions of Africa
Leslie Scalapino’s Dahlia’s Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction
W.G. Sebald’s oeuvre
Will Self’s Walking to Hollywood
Helene Sommer’s I Was There
Ivan Vladislavic’s Double Negative, etc.
William T. Vollmann’s The Rifles
Hannah Weiner’s Open House
Davis Schneiderman’s Dead/Books trilogy
