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Absurdist Books
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The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,507,008 ratings — published 1915
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,481,074 ratings — published 1942
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.84 — 226,847 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.94 — 412,617 ratings — published 1925
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,512,072 ratings — published 1969
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.99 — 898,679 ratings — published 1961
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,055,744 ratings — published 1979
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,990 ratings — published 1967
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.15 — 445,200 ratings — published 1963
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.02 — 326,172 ratings — published 1947
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.16 — 103,533 ratings — published 1942
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.06 — 619,081 ratings — published 1871
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 16 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.02 — 142,080 ratings — published 1956
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,188 ratings — published 1973
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,615 ratings — published 1926
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,705 ratings — published 1967
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.60 — 108,412 ratings — published 2018
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.02 — 249,332 ratings — published 1999
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.03 — 579,861 ratings — published 1999
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.28 — 439,275 ratings — published 1967
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,993 ratings — published 1957
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.88 — 138,622 ratings — published 2001
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.25 — 837,792 ratings — published 1990
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.06 — 385,501 ratings — published 1971
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.95 — 214,606 ratings — published 2000
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.22 — 184,219 ratings — published 2002
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.99 — 429,640 ratings — published 1983
The Nose (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.71 — 19,934 ratings — published 1836
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.45 — 450,688 ratings — published 2020
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,659,604 ratings — published 1948
The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.86 — 187,692 ratings — published 2000
The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.02 — 176,833 ratings — published 2000
The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.09 — 118,839 ratings — published 2005
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.38 — 341,242 ratings — published 1996
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,468 ratings — published 1942
A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.03 — 125,061 ratings — published 2006
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,775 ratings — published 1959
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.15 — 161,922 ratings — published 1959
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)
by (shelved 8 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.97 — 156,263 ratings — published 2001
The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.06 — 162,276 ratings — published 2001
The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10)
by (shelved 8 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.05 — 137,695 ratings — published 2003
The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
by (shelved 8 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.04 — 118,597 ratings — published 2006
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,720,045 ratings — published 1945
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
by (shelved 8 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,049 ratings — published 2001
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.00 — 145,191 ratings — published 1871
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.99 — 447,495 ratings — published 1865
The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9)
by (shelved 7 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.01 — 142,469 ratings — published 2002
The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
by (shelved 7 times as absurdist)
avg rating 4.03 — 126,529 ratings — published 2004
Amerika (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.73 — 35,362 ratings — published 1927
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as absurdist)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,335 ratings — published 1957
“For those whose senses are properly attuned, the most insignificant events—a woman who delays, a dog who sniffs at a wall—result in something so ineffable … it's as if a hidden universe of accumulated coincidences and circumstances had ordained it—so that even in the presence of so slight a spectacle as that of two flies alighting on a bald head, one would have the impermeability of a crocodile not to experience a veritable paroxysm of admiration.”
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“The Charge of the Sight Brigade
by Stewart Stafford
Gullible’s travels to a scarlet sunset,
Furious volleys at the price of glasses,
“It’s a crime!” the indignant chorus shouted
to anyone in earshot — which was nobody.
Sightwise and sound foolish, nevertheless,
Onwards into the optician’s valley they rode,
No landmarks of note in their myopic haze,
Mere blurry blobs of vagueness and colour.
The queue snaked backwards into infinity,
Grey beards grew long in grumpy purgatory,
Tripping over them as the eye test completed,
Cracked spectacles, their hard-fought prize.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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by Stewart Stafford
Gullible’s travels to a scarlet sunset,
Furious volleys at the price of glasses,
“It’s a crime!” the indignant chorus shouted
to anyone in earshot — which was nobody.
Sightwise and sound foolish, nevertheless,
Onwards into the optician’s valley they rode,
No landmarks of note in their myopic haze,
Mere blurry blobs of vagueness and colour.
The queue snaked backwards into infinity,
Grey beards grew long in grumpy purgatory,
Tripping over them as the eye test completed,
Cracked spectacles, their hard-fought prize.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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