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 (The 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
Cat’s Cradle
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Plague
Kingdom of Heroes by Jay  PhillipsDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeDead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Best Strange and Mysterious Mysteries
46 books — 56 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

Mount Shasta by Peter SantinoThe Otolith Group by Will HolderThe Most Remarkable Echo in the World by H.M. PartridgeMusical Punstruments by Zach M. ArnoldThe Universal Sweep Of The Death–Life Law of Nature by Raymond Westbury Maxwell Jr.
Ta-da-fizeek
100 books — 1 voter
Candide by VoltaireMarcovaldo by Italo CalvinoThe Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Di... by Jonas JonassonElianto by Stefano BenniLa Compagnia dei Celestini by Stefano Benni
Surreal and Charming Mystery-Humor
33 books — 2 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
Descent 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-DyerThe Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry by John  Corbett
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
178 books — 2 voters

John Kennedy Toole
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Albert Einstein
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein

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