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
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
Catch-22
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Myth of Sisyphus
Cat’s Cradle
Endgame
The Plague
Kafka on the Shore
Garrison Keillor
“ Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ”
― Garrison Keillor

Jon   Stewart
“ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. ”
― Jon Stewart

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