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House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,677 ratings — published 2000
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
Duplex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.34 — 1,580 ratings — published 2013
Days Between Stations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,159 ratings — published 1985
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,723 ratings — published 1990
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.80 — 332,223 ratings — published 2014
Atmospheric Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.19 — 4,396 ratings — published 2008
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.14 — 325,323 ratings — published 1994
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,576 ratings — published 2015
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.11 — 157,707 ratings — published 1985
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.74 — 197,230 ratings — published 2004
Night People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.54 — 510 ratings — published 1992
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.96 — 24,128 ratings — published 1967
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,248 ratings — published 2005
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,504 ratings — published 1973
Teatro Grottesco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,185 ratings — published 2006
Wild at Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,908 ratings — published 1990
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,969 ratings — published 1928
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,718 ratings — published 2009
In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.65 — 152 ratings — published 2013
Subdivision (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,038 ratings — published 2021
Night Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.78 — 97,478 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,788 ratings — published 1962
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.18 — 663,516 ratings — published 1996
The Orange Eats Creeps (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 2.99 — 2,221 ratings — published 2010
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,537 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,398 ratings — published 2016
Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,149 ratings — published 2014
Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks (Pop Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.67 — 371 ratings — published 2015
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.11 — 575,540 ratings — published 2002
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,644 ratings — published 1974
The Impossible David Lynch (Film and Culture Series)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.99 — 162 ratings — published 2007
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,914 ratings — published 1991
The Ruined Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,077 ratings — published 1967
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.82 — 48,672 ratings — published 1908
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.07 — 31,813 ratings — published 1977
No Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.93 — 136 ratings — published 2026
David Lynch Keeps His Head (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.24 — 71 ratings — published
Body Double (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.33 — 2,241 ratings — published 2025
The Ninth Configuration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,750 ratings — published 1966
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,903 ratings — published 1940
The Cavern (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,943 ratings — published 2019
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,130 ratings — published 1937
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,316 ratings — published 1948
Gun, With Occasional Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,871 ratings — published 1994
La tiranía de las moscas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,085 ratings — published
Nightmares in Ecstasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.89 — 160 ratings — published 2019
The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.97 — 388 ratings — published 2023
“Reality is a story badly translated from another dimension.”
― Reflections in the Dark
― Reflections in the Dark
“there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means is something about the unbelievably grotesque existing in a kind of union with the unbelievably banal," and then it gives a series of scenarios about what -- what is and what isn't Lynchian. Jeffrey Dahmer was borderline Lynchian...what was Lynchian was having the actual food products next to the disembodied bits of the corpse. I guess the big one is, you know, a regular domestic murder is not Lynchian. But if the man -- if the police come to the scene and see the man standing over the body and the woman -- let's see, the woman's '50s bouffant is undisturbed and the man and the cops have this conversation about the fact that the man killed the woman because she persistently refused to buy, say, for instance, Jif peanut butter rather than Skippy, and how very, very important that is, and if the cops found themselves somehow agreeing that there were major differences between the brands and that a wife who didn't recognize those differences was deficient in her wifely duties, that would be Lynchian -- this weird confluence of very dark, surreal, violent stuff and absolute, almost Norman Rockwell, banal, American stuff, which is terrain he's been working for quite a while -- I mean, at least since -- at least since "Blue Velvet.”
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