Books that: are different, original, unique. A mix of genres that usually don't work together? Weird?

[Sara]

I recently read Bone Rider (J. Fally) and it left me speechless. Cowboys, aliens, Russian mafia, and US army...all in one book. The best thing is that while these genres seemingly don't go together, the author somehow pulled it off. That made me think of other books that I thought were unique mixes. But the only one I could think of was New Camelot trilogy (Sierra Simone) which depicts a relationship between US President, Vice President and First Lady mixed with BDSM and politics which is also a Camelot retelling.

So...what is it that I am searching for? Something that will give me "I have never read anything even remotely similar to this" feeling. Something different, original, unique. It can come from mixing genres that usually don't work together but it doesn't have to.

No genre restrictions. I'm not sensitive to any triggers.

It has to be a good book though, somehow make it work. So, no titles that are rated 3.40 on Goodreads or something like that.

[Not-Mary]

Perhaps something by Roger Zelazny ? Like Creatures of Light and Darkness or Nine Princes in Amber?

[SamSpayedPI]

People tend to love this one . . . or really, really hate it. It passes your 3.4 rating floor (at a 3.54): The Prince and the Program

You've never read anything like it, that's for sure!

I loved Bone Rider too.

[...cats?]

Hunters & Collectors - a literary scifi/horror novel about a reviled food critic who is obsessed with a restaurant at a maybe-fictional hotel; hard to describe and definitely unique
Night of the Mannequins - horror novella about a teenage boy who becomes convinced (rightly or not) that a discarded mannequin from his childhood has come to life
Lincoln in the Bardo - fantasy/historical fiction/magic realism, where a bunch of ghosts discuss the recent death of Abraham Lincoln's son and their own experiences with the afterlife
Grasshopper Jungle - apocalyptic scifi dark comedy in which humanity is destroyed by giant cannibalistic praying mantises, but the main character still spends a lot of time thinking about sexual and religious identity

If you're open to comics, I'd also suggest Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles - Snagglepuss (the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character) is re-contextualized as a closeted gay playwright struggling under McCarthyism in the 1950s

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

You might like Thomas M. Disch.

Oddly enough, the book I was going to recommend is rated exactly 3.40 on GR. But read my review anyway and see if you think it might be worth reading. And there might be other of his books rated higher than 3.40 that might sound interesting too.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...