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Weird and Wonderful Stories
Looking for collections of short stories or novellas that point out the vibrancy, joy, and strangness of everyday life in a unique way.
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Angels
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JPod
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The Master and Margarita
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Dead Babies
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Clown Girl
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Suicide Casanova
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Big Sur
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In the Miso Soup
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4 3 2 1
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The Fuck-Up
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Cocaine Nights
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Train Dreams
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Adjustment Day
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The Five Gates of Hell
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Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
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We Disappear
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Song of the Silent Snow
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The Man in the High Castle
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Waiting for Godot
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Delta of Venus
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Crank (Crank, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 153,820 ratings
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The Sexy Part of the Bible
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My Loose Thread
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
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Psycho (Psycho, #1)
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| 129 |
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Women
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| 130 |
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The Book of Illusions
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| 130 |
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Dare Me
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3.24 avg rating — 29,964 ratings
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| 132 |
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The Informers
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| 133 |
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Lullaby
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 102,768 ratings
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The Drowned World
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The Grifters
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The Information
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| 136 |
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Living Dead Girl
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3.78 avg rating — 33,838 ratings
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| 138 |
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
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3.74 avg rating — 30,110 ratings
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My Idea of Fun
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| 140 |
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Room
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4.08 avg rating — 827,918 ratings
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The Zombie Room
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Audition
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Queer
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The Book of Lies
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Diary of a Drug Fiend
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Cosmic Banditos
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Animal Farm
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Frisk
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In Cold Blood
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Glue
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The Dharma Bums
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Closer
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Voluntary Madness
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3.68 avg rating — 330 ratings
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| 156 |
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The Girl on the Train
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3.96 avg rating — 3,223,286 ratings
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Fight Club 2
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3.05 avg rating — 9,755 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Snuff
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 66,223 ratings
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The Running Man
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Hunger
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Ulysses
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
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The End of Everything
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3.35 avg rating — 15,960 ratings
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You Will Know Me
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3.43 avg rating — 44,849 ratings
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Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 9,194 ratings
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Blood and Guts in High School
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In the Country of Last Things
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Mygale
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The Room
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Child of God
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I Miss The World
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The Crow Road
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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As I Lay Dying
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The Plague
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Nutshell
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3.68 avg rating — 56,669 ratings
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Night Film
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3.78 avg rating — 94,804 ratings
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
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Breakfast of Champions
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House of Leaves
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4.09 avg rating — 193,402 ratings
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When Disconnected
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Silence Dividend: Science Fiction Dystopian
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4.47 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Good Girls
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4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Oxford Marmalade
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4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Novel with Cocaine
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The Book of Revelation
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Darkness, I Am
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The Wicked Sister
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3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Rules of Attraction
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Jigsaw
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The Mezzanine
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The Virgin Suicides
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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Blindness
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The Corrections
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Life After God
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