Absurd

While sometimes comedic, this genre mostly encompasses stories which make little sense; dreamlike, bizarre, and unexpected.

Think of magical realism, but with a twist; this is magical realism where the entire world-view is skewed.

The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
Waiting for Godot
The Craziest Book Ever Written
The Trial
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Catch-22
Endgame
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Myth of Sisyphus
Cat’s Cradle
The Plague
The Fall (Vintage International)
Candide by VoltaireMarcovaldo by Italo CalvinoThe Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Di... by Jonas JonassonThe Queen's Envoy by Lord David ProsserElianto by Stefano Benni
Surreal and Charming Mystery-Humor
34 books — 3 voters
Coinman by Pawan MishraAn Orchid in my Belly Button by Katy WimhurstLove Me by Danger SlaterExponential Apocalypse by Eirik GumenyGhosts by Dolly Alderton
Completely Absurd
30 books — 30 voters

The Metamorphosis of Nick Adams by Gentry ThomasonDescent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerMeaning of Folklore by Alan DundesJuan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott WeintraubFolk-Lore of Shakespeare by T.F. Thiselton-Dyer
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
179 books — 3 voters
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom RobbinsJitterbug Perfume by Tom RobbinsSkinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
12 books — 1 voter

Michael Cunningham
Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
Michael Cunningham, The Hours

Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.
Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

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