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Surreal Books
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Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 559,009 ratings — published 2002
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,475,405 ratings — published 1915
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,086 ratings — published 1994
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 88 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 343,528 ratings — published 2009
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.09 — 205,554 ratings — published 2000
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 154,763 ratings — published 1985
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.21 — 511,940 ratings — published 2020
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.74 — 192,267 ratings — published 2004
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 406,028 ratings — published 1925
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.80 — 315,223 ratings — published 2014
The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 13,100 ratings — published 1974
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 615,531 ratings — published 1871
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,123,030 ratings — published 1967
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,500,725 ratings — published 1969
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.45 — 346,806 ratings — published 2019
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.28 — 432,294 ratings — published 1967
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,384 ratings — published 1967
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 143,590 ratings — published 1982
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,502 ratings — published 1959
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,114,602 ratings — published 2011
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,551 ratings — published 1928
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.60 — 104,994 ratings — published 2018
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.04 — 101,223 ratings — published 1988
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.65 — 412,994 ratings — published 2007
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 746,271 ratings — published 1987
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.54 — 70,834 ratings — published 2005
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 114,168 ratings — published 1979
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 661,274 ratings — published 2013
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.90 — 80,243 ratings — published 2009
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.72 — 54,920 ratings — published 2014
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,999 ratings — published 1928
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,728 ratings — published 2017
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,421 ratings — published 1962
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,617 ratings — published 1937
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.83 — 184,247 ratings — published 1999
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.69 — 146,984 ratings — published 1994
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,529,847 ratings — published 1943
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.50 — 208,022 ratings — published 2016
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 125,435 ratings — published 1969
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 996,373 ratings — published 2001
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.45 — 91,038 ratings — published 1998
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,437 ratings — published 1926
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 59,007 ratings — published 1993
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 382,767 ratings — published 1971
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,300 ratings — published 2002
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,040,558 ratings — published 1979
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 443,635 ratings — published 1865
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.05 — 104,145 ratings — published 1955
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.40 — 80,955 ratings — published 1944
“I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thunder.”
― Better to be able to love than to be loveable
― Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“I’ve seen Narbonic (and now Skin Horse) described as surreal or absurd, but they always strike me as almost depressingly logical. What I try to do is start from a point of mild deviation from the norm and gradually, ploddingly, build from there until the plot becomes toweringly irrational and you have hamsters in flying islands and whatnot.”
― Narbonic
― Narbonic
