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Absurd Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,383,611 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,407,981 ratings — published 1915
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,418 ratings — published 1951
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.94 — 391,841 ratings — published 1925
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.82 — 302,129 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,476,703 ratings — published 1969
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,006,310 ratings — published 1979
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 884,198 ratings — published 1961
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,225 ratings — published 1957
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.04 — 92,874 ratings — published 1967
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.15 — 435,504 ratings — published 1963
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.17 — 92,170 ratings — published 1942
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 312,430 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 133,996 ratings — published 1956
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 74,959 ratings — published 1926
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.46 — 321,349 ratings — published 2019
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.12 — 544,868 ratings — published 2002
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,818 ratings — published 1959
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 — 377,043 ratings — published 1971
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.18 — 640,417 ratings — published 1996
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 279,004 ratings — published 1973
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.22 — 65,122 ratings — published 1942
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 416,910 ratings — published 1967
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 606,966 ratings — published 1871
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.89 — 296,869 ratings — published 1980
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,369 ratings — published 1959
La Cantatrice chauve (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,254 ratings — published 1950
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,401 ratings — published 1970
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,488 ratings — published 1921
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.20 — 314,942 ratings — published 1980
Happy Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,410 ratings — published 1961
Rhinoceros and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,231 ratings — published 1959
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,842 ratings — published 1967
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 434,072 ratings — published 1865
Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.87 — 88,357 ratings — published 1985
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.92 — 42,718 ratings — published 1947
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,661 ratings — published 1938
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.69 — 96,840 ratings — published 1966
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.24 — 270,958 ratings — published 1987
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.60 — 98,607 ratings — published 2018
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,043 ratings — published 1957
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,440 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 — 249,721 ratings — published 1982
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.86 — 86,518 ratings — published 1987
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.25 — 821,894 ratings — published 1990
The Theatre of the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,000 ratings — published 1961
Endgame & Act Without Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,156 ratings — published 1957
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.01 — 143,199 ratings — published 1871
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,505,963 ratings — published 1945
“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.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
“Beauty is a whore, I like money better.”
― The Hours
― The Hours












