Surrealism

Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact.

Kafka on the Shore
Nadja
The Metamorphosis
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Hearing Trumpet
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Manifestoes of Surrealism
The Trial
The Master and Margarita
After Dark
Story of the Eye
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
Paris Peasant
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Cat Inside by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats
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1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
101 books — 52 voters

DallerGut Dream Department Store by Miye LeeThe Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko MorimiYours Celestially by Al HessOf Thunder & Lightning by Kimberly WangProkaryote Season by Leo Fox
Weirdcore Reads
7 books — 1 voter
Gentry by Entailment by Achim von ArnimTubutsch by Albert EhrensteinPoempoems by Oskar PastiorThe Butcher's Tales by Rikki DucornetMad Balls by Benjamin Péret
The Printed Head (Atlas Press)
40 books — 2 voters

William Shakespeare
Exit, pursued by a bear.
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

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