Offbeat


Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Night Circus
Nothing to See Here
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
The Invoice
Saga, Volume 1
Survivor
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Catch-22
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Skinny Legs and All
Choke
Breakfast of Champions
Still Life with Woodpecker
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige HillUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerEscape by Carolyn JessopUnorthodox by Deborah FeldmanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough
Small, Offbeat Religion Memoirs
257 books — 286 voters
The Library Book by Susan OrleanSally Stanford by Alton PryorThe Hillside Strangler by Ted SchwarzThe Longest Trek by Grace Lee WhitneySan Francisco's Playland at the Beach by James R. Smith
Offbeat California History
22 books — 3 voters

Magic America by C.E. MedfordFactotum by Charles BukowskiThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald
Quirky is the New Black
146 books — 67 voters

Francesca Lia Block
Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had driven away in the smashed yellow T-bird, leaving her mother Brandy-Lynn clutching her flowered robe with one hand and an empty glass in the other, and leaving Weetzie holding her arms crossed over her chest that was taking its time to develope into anything
Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

Michael Ben Zehabe
Sarah has read books on manners and good conduct, written in the language of the Arabs. I know she turned those pages. Watch her: perfect posture, grace in every step, perfect clothes. Not very fashionable, but clean and beautifully pressed.
Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

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