Absurdist Fiction


The Metamorphosis
The Stranger
The Craziest Book Ever Written
The Trial
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Catch-22
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
Waiting for Godot
The Castle
The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
Cat’s Cradle
The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)
Justin Alcala
What I love about absurdist fiction is that it uses the supernatural, over-the-top circumstances and humor to explain the everyday. A Dead End Job reads playfully enough, but it covertly touches on mental health, corruption of power and the price of redemption. Oh, and it has like… one-thousand fart jokes.
Justin Alcala, A Dead End Job

Ashim Shanker
His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made the prospect of feeling worthwhile. Daily he woke up and cast downtrodden eyes upon the sea and he would say to himself with a hint of regret at his hitherto lack of indifference, 'All a dim illusion, was it? Surely it was foolish of me to think any of this had meaning.' He would then spend hours staring at the ...more
Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable

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