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Surreal Books
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Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.12 — 543,713 ratings — published 2002
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,402,194 ratings — published 1915
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.14 — 313,006 ratings — published 1994
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 88 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 338,170 ratings — published 2009
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.09 — 198,268 ratings — published 2000
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 151,588 ratings — published 1985
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 390,676 ratings — published 1925
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.74 — 187,389 ratings — published 2004
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.80 — 298,049 ratings — published 2014
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.21 — 452,375 ratings — published 2020
The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,908 ratings — published 1974
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 606,281 ratings — published 1871
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 319,210 ratings — published 2019
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.28 — 415,764 ratings — published 1967
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,474,763 ratings — published 1969
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,095,420 ratings — published 1967
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,793 ratings — published 1967
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 140,555 ratings — published 1982
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,091,057 ratings — published 2011
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.60 — 98,194 ratings — published 2018
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,257 ratings — published 1959
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,130 ratings — published 1928
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.04 — 99,252 ratings — published 1988
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.55 — 69,276 ratings — published 2005
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 721,521 ratings — published 1987
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 655,797 ratings — published 2013
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.02 — 110,973 ratings — published 1979
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.65 — 367,244 ratings — published 2007
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,112 ratings — published 2009
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.83 — 179,803 ratings — published 1999
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,531 ratings — published 2017
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,195 ratings — published 1928
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,313 ratings — published 1937
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.72 — 51,281 ratings — published 2014
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.88 — 38,977 ratings — published 1962
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,446,054 ratings — published 1943
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.70 — 135,528 ratings — published 1994
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,743 ratings — published 1926
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 121,883 ratings — published 1969
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 987,762 ratings — published 2001
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 — 376,637 ratings — published 1971
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 57,943 ratings — published 1993
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.51 — 199,099 ratings — published 2016
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.13 — 777,436 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 — 2,003,534 ratings — published 1979
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 433,194 ratings — published 1865
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.40 — 78,345 ratings — published 1944
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,080 ratings — published 1955
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,745,755 ratings — published 2001
“The Behemoth & The Godspawn Surfer by Stewart Stafford
Jagged flesh in the behemoth's belly,
The city encircled by its tongue's pall,
I drank toxic fumes and pumice smoke,
As I tried surfing along a lava waterfall.
My obsidian bone board, surging fire,
Cryptid blood drips from a snapping jaw,
In a flash of the beast's fungal jawline,
I counted the vacant dead within its maw.
In a blaze, I was in its mouth and deeper,
I rounded the gullet's scalding turn,
Into a sea of swirling bones, stomach bile,
Where half-chewed skyscrapers churn.
"Leave me, Godspawn!" the monster roared,
"Spoil not my prey feasting for my fangs to cut!"
My board speared into its festering heart,
It ejected me in a howling thunderclap of sulphur soot.
And hurled me skyward, sand-blasted, and bruised,
The plume cleared, and the beast stood, wound-free—
Lava floods scorched, the city’s debt — a lifeblood hue,
By sunrise, my perennial task returned to enslave me.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Jagged flesh in the behemoth's belly,
The city encircled by its tongue's pall,
I drank toxic fumes and pumice smoke,
As I tried surfing along a lava waterfall.
My obsidian bone board, surging fire,
Cryptid blood drips from a snapping jaw,
In a flash of the beast's fungal jawline,
I counted the vacant dead within its maw.
In a blaze, I was in its mouth and deeper,
I rounded the gullet's scalding turn,
Into a sea of swirling bones, stomach bile,
Where half-chewed skyscrapers churn.
"Leave me, Godspawn!" the monster roared,
"Spoil not my prey feasting for my fangs to cut!"
My board speared into its festering heart,
It ejected me in a howling thunderclap of sulphur soot.
And hurled me skyward, sand-blasted, and bruised,
The plume cleared, and the beast stood, wound-free—
Lava floods scorched, the city’s debt — a lifeblood hue,
By sunrise, my perennial task returned to enslave me.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.”
― Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
― Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
