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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 270 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.98 — 78,083 ratings — published 2000
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 210 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.80 — 339,132 ratings — published 2014
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
by (shelved 164 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.19 — 35,804 ratings — published 2002
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.89 — 83,650 ratings — published 2009
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 125 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.55 — 116,050 ratings — published 2014
Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3)
by (shelved 105 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.73 — 17,365 ratings — published 2004
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 104 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,307 ratings — published 2014
Kraken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.62 — 29,510 ratings — published 2010
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,506 ratings — published 2002
Borne (Borne, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,216 ratings — published 2017
Embassytown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.90 — 35,950 ratings — published 2011
The Etched City (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,941 ratings — published 2003
The New Weird (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,338 ratings — published 2008
Railsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,926 ratings — published 2012
Finch (Ambergris, #3)
by (shelved 57 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,500 ratings — published 2009
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.09 — 216,701 ratings — published 2000
King Rat (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.56 — 10,257 ratings — published 1998
Veniss Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,275 ratings — published 2003
Looking for Jake (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,075 ratings — published 2003
The Last Days of New Paris (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.53 — 7,916 ratings — published 2016
Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,180 ratings — published 2006
This Census-Taker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.35 — 8,495 ratings — published 2016
Un Lun Dun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,716 ratings — published 2007
The Vorrh (The Vorrh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,202 ratings — published 2012
The Library at Mount Char (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.05 — 91,428 ratings — published 2015
Viriconium (Viriconium, #1-4)
by (shelved 32 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,766 ratings — published 2000
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.16 — 570,506 ratings — published 1996
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,970 ratings — published 2020
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,008,883 ratings — published 2001
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)
by (shelved 28 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,521 ratings — published 2017
Three Moments of an Explosion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,607 ratings — published 2015
The Year of Our War (Fourlands, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,494 ratings — published 2004
Absolution (Southern Reach #4)
by (shelved 26 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,029 ratings — published 2024
Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.36 — 9,617 ratings — published 2019
The Bone Clocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,349 ratings — published 2014
Palimpsest (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,313 ratings — published 2009
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,615 ratings — published 2010
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)
by (shelved 20 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,210 ratings — published 2014
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.04 — 231,651 ratings — published 2005
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.85 — 88,237 ratings — published 2007
Physiognomy (IMAGINAIRE)
by (shelved 19 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,092 ratings — published 1997
Jagannath (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,389 ratings — published 2012
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.19 — 605,570 ratings — published 2020
A Man of Shadows (John Nyquist #1)
by (shelved 17 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.36 — 1,691 ratings — published 2017
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.01 — 668,471 ratings — published 2013
The Half-Made World (The Half-Made World, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,083 ratings — published 2010
The Third Bear (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,502 ratings — published 2010
Vellum (The Book of All Hours, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.32 — 2,138 ratings — published 2005
Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,126 ratings — published 2002
“She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him, and he felt a great scab of habit and prejudice split from him, part from his skin where his homeland had inscribed him deep.
Heal me, he thought, not understanding what he thought, hoping for a reconfiguration. There was a caustic pain as he peeled off a clot of old life and exposed himself open and unsure to her, to new air. Breathing fast again. His feelings welled out and bled together (their festering ceased) and they began to resolve, to heal in a new form, to scar.”
― The Scar
Heal me, he thought, not understanding what he thought, hoping for a reconfiguration. There was a caustic pain as he peeled off a clot of old life and exposed himself open and unsure to her, to new air. Breathing fast again. His feelings welled out and bled together (their festering ceased) and they began to resolve, to heal in a new form, to scar.”
― The Scar
“Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes.”
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