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House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 195,137 ratings — published 2000
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.53 — 153 ratings — published
Duplex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.35 — 1,547 ratings — published 2013
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.79 — 290,487 ratings — published 2014
Days Between Stations (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,119 ratings — published 1985
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.11 — 150,231 ratings — published 1985
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.91 — 282,134 ratings — published 1962
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.77 — 13,870 ratings — published 1990
Night People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.56 — 475 ratings — published 1992
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,550 ratings — published 1967
Atmospheric Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.19 — 4,293 ratings — published 2008
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.14 — 310,361 ratings — published 1994
Wild at Heart (Gifford, Barry)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,669 ratings — published 1990
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,966 ratings — published 2015
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,346 ratings — published 2009
In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.66 — 147 ratings — published 2013
Subdivision (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.77 — 979 ratings — published 2021
Night Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.78 — 95,077 ratings — published 2013
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.18 — 634,786 ratings — published 1996
The Orange Eats Creeps (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.01 — 2,003 ratings — published 2010
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,169 ratings — published 2017
Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,115 ratings — published 2014
Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks (Pop Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.65 — 342 ratings — published 2015
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.12 — 537,466 ratings — published 2002
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.74 — 185,405 ratings — published 2004
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,464 ratings — published 1974
The Impossible David Lynch (Film and Culture Series)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.98 — 151 ratings — published 2007
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,488 ratings — published 1991
The Ruined Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,813 ratings — published 1967
The Golem (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,989 ratings — published 1915
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,881 ratings — published 1952
Mount Analogue (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,045 ratings — published 1952
The Green Face (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.81 — 649 ratings — published 1916
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,392 ratings — published 2005
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.17 — 56,632 ratings — published 1962
The Infinite Blacktop (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,666 ratings — published 2018
The Obscene Bird of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,354 ratings — published 1970
Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.72 — 658 ratings — published 2017
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,570 ratings — published 2011
Horror Movie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.29 — 42,443 ratings — published 2024
Supplication (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 2.55 — 587 ratings — published 2024
The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.71 — 17,121 ratings — published 1836
Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.57 — 32,606 ratings — published 1979
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.04 — 98,386 ratings — published 1988
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.94 — 139,234 ratings — published 1982
Drugstore Cowboy: A Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.93 — 476 ratings — published 1990
The Wild Life Of Sailor And Lula (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.04 — 285 ratings — published 1996
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.86 — 125,183 ratings — published 1985
Pinball, 1973 (The Rat, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.51 — 21,614 ratings — published 1980
“there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means is something about the unbelievably grotesque existing in a kind of union with the unbelievably banal," and then it gives a series of scenarios about what -- what is and what isn't Lynchian. Jeffrey Dahmer was borderline Lynchian...what was Lynchian was having the actual food products next to the disembodied bits of the corpse. I guess the big one is, you know, a regular domestic murder is not Lynchian. But if the man -- if the police come to the scene and see the man standing over the body and the woman -- let's see, the woman's '50s bouffant is undisturbed and the man and the cops have this conversation about the fact that the man killed the woman because she persistently refused to buy, say, for instance, Jif peanut butter rather than Skippy, and how very, very important that is, and if the cops found themselves somehow agreeing that there were major differences between the brands and that a wife who didn't recognize those differences was deficient in her wifely duties, that would be Lynchian -- this weird confluence of very dark, surreal, violent stuff and absolute, almost Norman Rockwell, banal, American stuff, which is terrain he's been working for quite a while -- I mean, at least since -- at least since "Blue Velvet.”
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“An academic definition of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter." But like postmodern or pornographic, Lynchian is one of those Porter Stewart-type words that's ultimately definable only ostensively-i.e., we know it when we see it. Ted Bundy wasn't particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victims' various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian. A recent homicide in Boston, in which the deacon of a South Shore church reportedly gave chase to a vehicle that bad cut him off, forced the car off the road, and shot the driver with a highpowered crossbow, was borderline Lynchian. A Rotary luncheon where everybody's got a comb-over and a polyester sport coat and is eating bland Rotarian chicken and exchanging Republican platitudes with heartfelt sincerity and yet all are either amputees or neurologically damaged or both would be more Lynchian than not.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
