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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,462,483 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,487,440 ratings — published 1915
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,928 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 3.94 — 408,814 ratings — published 1925
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.82 — 307,742 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,505,631 ratings — published 1969
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,046,976 ratings — published 1979
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 896,022 ratings — published 1961
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,861 ratings — published 1957
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,800 ratings — published 1967
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.16 — 101,426 ratings — published 1942
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.15 — 443,357 ratings — published 1963
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 323,686 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 19 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 140,545 ratings — published 1956
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,934 ratings — published 1926
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,627 ratings — published 1959
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.11 — 561,729 ratings — published 2002
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.45 — 351,263 ratings — published 2019
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 — 383,944 ratings — published 1971
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.18 — 654,061 ratings — published 1996
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 283,299 ratings — published 1973
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 617,097 ratings — published 1871
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,268 ratings — published 1942
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.89 — 303,240 ratings — published 1980
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 435,238 ratings — published 1967
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,723 ratings — published 1959
La Cantatrice chauve (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,521 ratings — published 1950
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.19 — 320,862 ratings — published 1980
Rhinoceros and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,375 ratings — published 1959
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,521 ratings — published 1967
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,740 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.93 — 143,300 ratings — published 1938
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,062 ratings — published 1921
Happy Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,565 ratings — published 1961
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.69 — 99,928 ratings — published 1966
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.60 — 106,550 ratings — published 2018
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 445,290 ratings — published 1865
Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.87 — 90,116 ratings — published 1985
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 43,863 ratings — published 1947
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.25 — 834,765 ratings — published 1990
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.24 — 276,669 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,682,787 ratings — published 1945
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,294 ratings — published 1957
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,545 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 — 253,482 ratings — published 1982
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,650 ratings — published 1987
The Theatre of the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,020 ratings — published 1961
Endgame & Act Without Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,269 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 4.00 — 144,873 ratings — published 1871
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
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