49 books
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59 voters
Absurd Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,455,087 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,480,708 ratings — published 1915
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,512 ratings — published 1951
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.54 — 152 ratings — published
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,276 ratings — published 1925
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.82 — 307,241 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,502,810 ratings — published 1969
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,043,320 ratings — published 1979
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 894,878 ratings — published 1961
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,784 ratings — published 1957
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,718 ratings — published 1967
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.16 — 100,574 ratings — published 1942
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.15 — 442,616 ratings — published 1963
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 322,682 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 19 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.03 — 139,975 ratings — published 1956
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,648 ratings — published 1926
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,559 ratings — published 1959
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.45 — 348,755 ratings — published 2019
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.11 — 560,169 ratings — published 2002
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 — 383,259 ratings — published 1971
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.18 — 652,818 ratings — published 1996
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,888 ratings — published 1973
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.06 — 616,147 ratings — published 1871
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,153 ratings — published 1942
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.89 — 302,608 ratings — published 1980
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 433,594 ratings — published 1967
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,605 ratings — published 1959
La Cantatrice chauve (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,499 ratings — published 1950
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.19 — 320,333 ratings — published 1980
Rhinoceros and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,365 ratings — published 1959
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,443 ratings — published 1967
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,719 ratings — published 1915
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,017 ratings — published 1921
Happy Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,549 ratings — published 1961
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.69 — 99,624 ratings — published 1966
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.60 — 105,697 ratings — published 2018
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.99 — 444,395 ratings — published 1865
Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.87 — 89,968 ratings — published 1985
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.91 — 43,762 ratings — published 1947
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,829 ratings — published 1938
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.25 — 833,509 ratings — published 1990
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.24 — 276,126 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,667,518 ratings — published 1945
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,275 ratings — published 1957
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,533 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 — 253,180 ratings — published 1982
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,426 ratings — published 1987
The Theatre of the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,020 ratings — published 1961
Endgame & Act Without Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurd)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,252 ratings — published 1957
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as absurd)
avg rating 4.00 — 144,705 ratings — published 1871
“No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
― Night Watch
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
― Night Watch












