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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,501,534 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,528,289 ratings — published 1915
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,824 ratings — published 1951
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.93 — 416,973 ratings — published 1925
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,519,662 ratings — published 1969
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.82 — 310,391 ratings — published 2009
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,065,927 ratings — published 1979
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,655 ratings — published 1961
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,090 ratings — published 1957
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,159 ratings — published 1967
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.15 — 447,130 ratings — published 1963
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.16 — 105,994 ratings — published 1942
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 329,036 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 19 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 143,921 ratings — published 1956
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,953 ratings — published 1959
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.11 — 571,385 ratings — published 2002
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.44 — 364,261 ratings — published 2019
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.18 — 660,702 ratings — published 1996
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 79,371 ratings — published 1926
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 387,013 ratings — published 1971
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 444,314 ratings — published 1925
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 621,396 ratings — published 1871
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,702 ratings — published 1942
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.89 — 306,486 ratings — published 1980
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 285,162 ratings — published 1973
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,418 ratings — published 1959
La Cantatrice chauve (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,641 ratings — published 1950
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.19 — 323,593 ratings — published 1980
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.60 — 110,502 ratings — published 2018
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.69 — 101,275 ratings — published 1966
Rhinoceros and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,432 ratings — published 1959
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,931 ratings — published 1967
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,927 ratings — published 1915
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,267 ratings — published 1921
Happy Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,632 ratings — published 1961
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 450,479 ratings — published 1865
Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.87 — 90,941 ratings — published 1985
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,352 ratings — published 1947
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,718 ratings — published 1938
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.25 — 842,463 ratings — published 1990
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.24 — 279,215 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,769,360 ratings — published 1945
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,352 ratings — published 1957
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,237 ratings — published 1971
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,723 ratings — published 1951
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,602 ratings — published 1958
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.16 — 255,239 ratings — published 1982
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,597 ratings — published 1987
The Theatre of the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,026 ratings — published 1961
“A man is an angel that has gone deranged.”
―
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“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.”
― The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
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.”
― The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
