Author Title Pub. Year Notes
Peter Ackroyd (b. 1949) Hawksmoor 1985
Douglas Adams (1952—2001) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 1987
Martin Amis (b. 1949) London Fields 1989
Paul Auster (b. 1947) Leviathan 1992
Paul Auster (b. 1947) The New York Trilogy 1985—6
Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) The Lime Works 1970 (German: Das Kalkwerk, 1970; English tr., 1973)
Jedediah Berry (b. 1977) The Manual of Detection 2009
Alfred Bester (1913—1987) The Demolished Man 1953
Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) 2666 2004 English tr., 2008
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
Truman Capote In Cold Blood 1966
Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen's Union 2007
Agatha Christie The A.B.C. Murders 1936
Robert Coover (b. 1932) Noir 2010
Friedrich Dürrenmatt The Pledge 1958
Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum 1988
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose 1980
David Gordon (b. 1967) The Serialist 2010
Witold Gombrowicz Cosmos 1965
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003
Elizabeth Hand (b. 1957) Generation Loss 2007
Patricia Highsmith (1921—1995) The Talented Mr. Ripley 1955
Norman N. Holland (1927—2017) Death in a Delphi Seminar 1995
Franz Kafka The Trial 1925
Jonathan Lethem Gun, with Occasional Music 1994
Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn 1999
Jean-Patrick Manchette The Prone Gunman 1981
Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981
Cameron McCabe The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor 1937
Philip MacDonald The Rynox Murder 1930
China Miéville The City & the City 2009
Mo Yan The Republic of Wine 1992
Patrick Modiano Missing Person 1978
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore 2002
Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase 1982
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire 1962
Joyce Carol Oates Mysteries of Winterthurn 1984
Flann O'Brien (1911–1966) The Third Policeman 1967
Orhan Pamuk The Black Book 1990
Georges Perec A Void 1969
Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics 2006
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 1966
Thomas Pynchon Inherent Vice 2009
Alain Robbe-Grillet The Erasers 1953
Alain Robbe-Grillet The Voyeur 1955
Leonardo Sciascia (1921–1989) The Day of the Owl 1961 (Italian: Il giorno della civetta, 1961; English tr., 1963)
Leonardo Sciascia (1921–1989) Equal Danger 1971 (Italian: Il contesto, 1971; English tr., 1973)
Gilbert Sorrentino (1929–2006) Mulligan Stew 1979
Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) Some of Your Blood 1961
Miguel Syjuco (b. 1976) Ilustrado 2008