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House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,753 ratings — published 2000
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
Duplex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.34 — 1,575 ratings — published 2013
Days Between Stations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,145 ratings — published 1985
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.80 — 318,211 ratings — published 2014
Atmospheric Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.19 — 4,367 ratings — published 2008
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.14 — 320,039 ratings — published 1994
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,382 ratings — published 2015
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.11 — 155,219 ratings — published 1985
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.82 — 15,849 ratings — published 1990
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.74 — 193,023 ratings — published 2004
Night People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.54 — 499 ratings — published 1992
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,499 ratings — published 1967
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,301 ratings — published 2005
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.64 — 33,226 ratings — published 1973
Teatro Grottesco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,043 ratings — published 2006
Wild at Heart (Gifford, Barry)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,798 ratings — published 1990
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,627 ratings — published 1928
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,318 ratings — published 2009
In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.65 — 151 ratings — published 2013
Subdivision (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,015 ratings — published 2021
Night Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.78 — 96,666 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,922 ratings — published 1962
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,815 ratings — published 1996
The Orange Eats Creeps (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.00 — 2,130 ratings — published 2010
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,440 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,269 ratings — published 2016
Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,134 ratings — published 2014
Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks (Pop Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.67 — 361 ratings — published 2015
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.11 — 561,427 ratings — published 2002
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,597 ratings — published 1974
The Impossible David Lynch (Film and Culture Series)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 4.00 — 159 ratings — published 2007
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,712 ratings — published 1991
The Ruined Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lynchian)
avg rating 3.45 — 2,975 ratings — published 1967
La tiranía de las moscas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,623 ratings — published
Nightmares in Ecstasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.90 — 158 ratings — published 2019
The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.98 — 368 ratings — published 2023
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.09 — 353 ratings — published 1996
The Breach (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,324 ratings — published 2020
The Bleeding Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,033 ratings — published 2003
The Treatment (Jack Caffery, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,275 ratings — published 2001
A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,510 ratings — published 2019
Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,991 ratings — published 2022
Experimental Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,956 ratings — published 2015
Amygdalatropolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,803 ratings — published 2017
Doctor Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,239 ratings — published 1947
Everybody Knows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,658 ratings — published 2023
Dead Girl Blues (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,365 ratings — published 2020
Silver Nitrate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lynchian)
avg rating 3.58 — 31,102 ratings — published 2023
“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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“An academic definition of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter." But like postmodern or pornographic, Lynchian is one of those Porter Stewart-type words that's ultimately definable only ostensively-i.e., we know it when we see it. Ted Bundy wasn't particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victims' various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian. A recent homicide in Boston, in which the deacon of a South Shore church reportedly gave chase to a vehicle that bad cut him off, forced the car off the road, and shot the driver with a highpowered crossbow, was borderline Lynchian. A Rotary luncheon where everybody's got a comb-over and a polyester sport coat and is eating bland Rotarian chicken and exchanging Republican platitudes with heartfelt sincerity and yet all are either amputees or neurologically damaged or both would be more Lynchian than not.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
