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Kafkaesque Books
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The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,501,111 ratings — published 1915
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.94 — 411,382 ratings — published 1925
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,366 ratings — published 1926
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.11 — 564,844 ratings — published 2002
A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka)
by (shelved 12 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.09 — 24,065 ratings — published 1924
In the Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,455 ratings — published 1918
Invitation to a Beheading (Vintage International)
by (shelved 11 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 20,606 ratings — published 1935
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,014 ratings — published 1962
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.20 — 44,947 ratings — published 1940
Amerika (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.73 — 35,293 ratings — published 1927
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,810 ratings — published 1915
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.11 — 155,730 ratings — published 1985
The Box Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,897 ratings — published 1973
The Unconsoled (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 18,920 ratings — published 1995
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 897,847 ratings — published 1961
Diaries, 1910-1923 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,240 ratings — published 1949
The Other Side (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,392 ratings — published 1909
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 655,938 ratings — published 1996
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,811 ratings — published 1981
Letters to Milena (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.90 — 27,309 ratings — published 1952
Metropole (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,817 ratings — published 1970
The Judgement (Short Story)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 9,456 ratings — published 1913
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.06 — 610,734 ratings — published 1995
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,971 ratings — published 1915
Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.85 — 732 ratings — published 2018
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.06 — 376,731 ratings — published 1892
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 427,521 ratings — published 2007
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.83 — 185,774 ratings — published 1999
Letter to His Father (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,264 ratings — published 1919
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.54 — 71,316 ratings — published 2005
Contemplation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,562 ratings — published 1913
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,474,772 ratings — published 1942
Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,025 ratings — published 1967
A Country Doctor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.67 — 8,120 ratings — published 1918
The Judgment and other stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,345 ratings — published 1912
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,633 ratings — published 1980
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,645,532 ratings — published 1948
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.55 — 111,428 ratings — published 2014
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 100,328 ratings — published 1966
City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.75 — 24,701 ratings — published 1985
The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.67 — 45,808 ratings — published 1846
The Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 6,284 ratings — published 2014
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 47,811 ratings — published 1908
The Ruined Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.45 — 2,997 ratings — published 1967
Jakob von Gunten (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,182 ratings — published 1909
المحاكمة: رواية مصورة (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 3,031 ratings — published 1925
The Iliac Crest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,402 ratings — published 2002
The Singularity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,034 ratings — published 1960
The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library)
by (shelved 2 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 577 ratings — published 2023
I'm Not Stiller (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kafkaesque)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,017 ratings — published 1954
“It's true that you're under arrest, but that shouldn't stop you from carrying out your job. And there shouldn't be anything to stop you carrying on with your usual life."
"In that case it's not too bad, being under arrest," said K.”
― The Trial
"In that case it's not too bad, being under arrest," said K.”
― The Trial
“Rather like "Orwellian", the term "Kafkaesque" has come to be used, often enough by those who have not read a word of Kafka, to describe what are perceived as typically or even uniquely modern traumas: existential alienation, isolation and insecurity, the labyrinth of state bureaucracy, the corrupt or whimsical abuse of totalitarian power, the impenetrable tangle of legal systems, the knock on the door in the middle of the night….”
― The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
― The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
