Absurd

While sometimes comedic, this genre mostly encompasses stories which make little sense; dreamlike, bizarre, and unexpected.

Think of magical realism, but with a twist; this is magical realism where the entire world-view is skewed.

The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
Waiting for Godot
The Craziest Book Ever Written
The Trial
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Catch-22
Endgame
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Cat’s Cradle
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Plague
Kingdom of Heroes by Jay  PhillipsDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeDead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Best Strange and Mysterious Mysteries
46 books — 56 voters
Coinman by Pawan MishraAn Orchid in my Belly Button by Katy WimhurstLove Me by Danger SlaterExponential Apocalypse by Eirik GumenyGhosts by Dolly Alderton
Completely Absurd
30 books — 30 voters

Descent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerMeaning of Folklore by Alan DundesJuan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott WeintraubFolk-Lore of Shakespeare by T.F. Thiselton-DyerThe Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry by John  Corbett
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
178 books — 2 voters
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom RobbinsJitterbug Perfume by Tom RobbinsSkinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
12 books — 1 voter

Woody Allen
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen

Robert A. Heinlein
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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