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New Weird Books
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 261 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,543 ratings — published 2000
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.80 — 305,915 ratings — published 2014
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
by (shelved 159 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.19 — 34,832 ratings — published 2002
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.90 — 79,023 ratings — published 2009
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 120 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.55 — 106,979 ratings — published 2014
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 102 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.67 — 81,025 ratings — published 2014
Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3)
by (shelved 102 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,894 ratings — published 2004
Kraken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.62 — 28,772 ratings — published 2010
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,140 ratings — published 2002
Borne (Borne, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,438 ratings — published 2017
Embassytown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.90 — 34,703 ratings — published 2011
The Etched City (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,874 ratings — published 2003
The New Weird (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,329 ratings — published 2008
Railsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,600 ratings — published 2012
Finch (Ambergris, #3)
by (shelved 56 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,327 ratings — published 2009
King Rat (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.56 — 10,020 ratings — published 1998
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.09 — 201,626 ratings — published 2000
Veniss Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,056 ratings — published 2003
Looking for Jake (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,014 ratings — published 2003
The Last Days of New Paris (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.53 — 7,661 ratings — published 2016
Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,019 ratings — published 2006
This Census-Taker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.34 — 8,264 ratings — published 2016
Un Lun Dun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,483 ratings — published 2007
The Vorrh (The Vorrh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,882 ratings — published 2012
The Library at Mount Char (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.06 — 80,484 ratings — published 2015
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.16 — 562,468 ratings — published 1996
Viriconium (Viriconium, #1-4)
by (shelved 29 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,690 ratings — published 2000
Three Moments of an Explosion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,530 ratings — published 2009
The Year of Our War (Fourlands, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,473 ratings — published 2004
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.10 — 992,214 ratings — published 2001
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)
by (shelved 25 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,084 ratings — published 2017
Absolution (Southern Reach #4)
by (shelved 23 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.59 — 11,321 ratings — published 2024
Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.36 — 9,130 ratings — published 2019
The Bone Clocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.85 — 100,600 ratings — published 2014
Palimpsest (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,264 ratings — published 2009
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,536 ratings — published 2010
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.13 — 21,559 ratings — published 2020
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)
by (shelved 20 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,669 ratings — published 2014
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.04 — 229,890 ratings — published 2005
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.86 — 84,369 ratings — published 2007
Physiognomy (IMAGINAIRE)
by (shelved 18 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,075 ratings — published 1997
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
Jagannath (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,244 ratings — published 2012
A Man of Shadows (John Nyquist #1)
by (shelved 16 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.36 — 1,644 ratings — published 2017
Vellum (The Book of All Hours, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.32 — 2,136 ratings — published 2005
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.21 — 479,947 ratings — published 2020
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as new-weird)
avg rating 4.01 — 658,509 ratings — published 2013
The Third Bear (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,468 ratings — published 2010
The Half-Made World (The Half-Made World, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,054 ratings — published 2010
The Light Ages (The Aether Universe, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as new-weird)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,300 ratings — published 2003
“[T]he new weird represents a productive experiment in fantasy fiction. The New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s arguably embodied science fiction's claim to literary 'seriousness.' This desire for seriousness is not snobbery, as sometimes suggested by folks who overemphasize the entertainment function of speculative fiction; it's about recognition of the vast possibilities within the field.”
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“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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