110 books
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15 voters
Absurd Books
Showing 1-50 of 4,078
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,490,657 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,516,408 ratings — published 1915
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,299 ratings — published 1951
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.93 — 414,531 ratings — published 1925
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,515,592 ratings — published 1969
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.82 — 309,563 ratings — published 2009
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,060,456 ratings — published 1979
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 900,069 ratings — published 1961
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,050 ratings — published 1957
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,078 ratings — published 1967
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.15 — 446,100 ratings — published 1963
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.16 — 104,618 ratings — published 1942
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 327,367 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 19 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 142,912 ratings — published 1956
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,867 ratings — published 1959
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.11 — 568,547 ratings — published 2002
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.44 — 360,476 ratings — published 2019
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,951 ratings — published 1926
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.18 — 658,874 ratings — published 1996
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 386,291 ratings — published 1971
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 441,394 ratings — published 1967
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 620,198 ratings — published 1871
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,573 ratings — published 1942
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.89 — 305,497 ratings — published 1980
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,683 ratings — published 1973
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,230 ratings — published 1959
La Cantatrice chauve (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,614 ratings — published 1950
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.19 — 322,791 ratings — published 1980
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.60 — 109,336 ratings — published 2018
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.69 — 100,871 ratings — published 1966
Rhinoceros and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,433 ratings — published 1959
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,811 ratings — published 1967
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,876 ratings — published 1915
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,212 ratings — published 1921
Happy Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,615 ratings — published 1961
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 448,776 ratings — published 1865
Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.87 — 90,716 ratings — published 1985
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,204 ratings — published 1947
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,034 ratings — published 1938
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.25 — 839,846 ratings — published 1990
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.24 — 278,475 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,744,637 ratings — published 1945
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,346 ratings — published 1957
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,040 ratings — published 1971
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,647 ratings — published 1951
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,590 ratings — published 1958
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.16 — 254,707 ratings — published 1982
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,316 ratings — published 1987
The Theatre of the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,027 ratings — published 1961
“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”
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“I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.”
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She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.”
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