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Kafka on the Shore
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Trial
The Metamorphosis
House of Leaves
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Piranesi
Invisible Cities
El color de la Alegria (Spanish Edition)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
The Little Prince
1984
The Stranger
Doctors by Dash ShawThe People Inside (2) by Ray FawkesHere by Richard McGuireOne Soul by Ray FawkesYoung Lions by Blaise Larmee
Abstract Comics
61 books — 6 voters
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneRed Goliath by Oscar  OrtizA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Groundbreaking Books
94 books — 80 voters

The Past by Kenneth   ThomasAnimal Farm by George OrwellAfter Dark by Haruki MurakamiThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonSchulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
Best Abstract Book Covers
61 books — 35 voters
The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaNoir Falling by L. Andrew CooperVery Odd Short Stories by Alan  CrawfordSuch a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester
Surreal, Abstract, Unusual Books
66 books — 7 voters


How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a society utterly unlike our own. Those were the terms on which I wanted to encounter him; not as a distant and abstract being, but as the product of a particular culture, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then; a god shaped by their own physical circumstances, their own v ...more
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

Philip K. Dick
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank. ...more
Philip K. Dick, VALIS

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