Sign in with Facebook
35 books
—
1 voter
Surreal Books
Showing 1-50 of 7,964
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 560,503 ratings — published 2002
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,482,081 ratings — published 1915
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,697 ratings — published 1994
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 88 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 344,086 ratings — published 2009
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,288 ratings — published 2000
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 155,058 ratings — published 1985
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.21 — 517,616 ratings — published 2020
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,577 ratings — published 1925
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.74 — 192,736 ratings — published 2004
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.80 — 317,132 ratings — published 2014
The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 13,230 ratings — published 1974
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 616,349 ratings — published 1871
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,125,557 ratings — published 1967
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.45 — 349,258 ratings — published 2019
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.28 — 433,912 ratings — published 1967
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,380 ratings — published 1969
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,464 ratings — published 1967
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 143,914 ratings — published 1982
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,117,285 ratings — published 2011
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,626 ratings — published 1959
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,592 ratings — published 1928
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.60 — 105,882 ratings — published 2018
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.04 — 101,427 ratings — published 1988
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 748,781 ratings — published 1987
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.65 — 417,301 ratings — published 2007
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.54 — 70,985 ratings — published 2005
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 661,772 ratings — published 2013
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 114,498 ratings — published 1979
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.90 — 80,487 ratings — published 2009
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.72 — 55,374 ratings — published 2014
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,096 ratings — published 1928
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,751 ratings — published 2017
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,581 ratings — published 1962
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,752 ratings — published 1937
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.83 — 184,689 ratings — published 1999
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.69 — 148,177 ratings — published 1994
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,536,749 ratings — published 1943
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,712 ratings — published 1926
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 125,767 ratings — published 1969
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.50 — 208,892 ratings — published 2016
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 59,110 ratings — published 1993
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,228 ratings — published 2001
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.45 — 91,433 ratings — published 1998
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,044,045 ratings — published 1979
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,393 ratings — published 1971
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 444,587 ratings — published 1865
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,522 ratings — published 2002
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.05 — 104,818 ratings — published 1955
Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,117 ratings — published 2015
“The Behemoth & The Godspawn Surfer by Stewart Stafford
Jagged flesh in the behemoth's belly,
The city encircled by its tongue's pall,
I drank toxic fumes and pumice smoke,
As I tried surfing along a lava waterfall.
My obsidian bone board, surging fire,
Cryptid blood drips from a snapping jaw,
In a flash of the beast's fungal jawline,
I counted the vacant dead within its maw.
In a blaze, I was in its mouth and deeper,
I rounded the gullet's scalding turn,
Into a sea of swirling bones, stomach bile,
Where half-chewed skyscrapers churn.
"Leave me, Godspawn!" the monster roared,
"Spoil not my prey feasting for my fangs to cut!"
My board speared into its festering heart,
It ejected me in a howling thunderclap of sulphur soot.
And hurled me skyward, sand-blasted, and bruised,
The plume cleared, and the beast stood, wound-free—
Lava floods scorched, the city’s debt — a lifeblood hue,
By sunrise, my perennial task returned to enslave me.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Jagged flesh in the behemoth's belly,
The city encircled by its tongue's pall,
I drank toxic fumes and pumice smoke,
As I tried surfing along a lava waterfall.
My obsidian bone board, surging fire,
Cryptid blood drips from a snapping jaw,
In a flash of the beast's fungal jawline,
I counted the vacant dead within its maw.
In a blaze, I was in its mouth and deeper,
I rounded the gullet's scalding turn,
Into a sea of swirling bones, stomach bile,
Where half-chewed skyscrapers churn.
"Leave me, Godspawn!" the monster roared,
"Spoil not my prey feasting for my fangs to cut!"
My board speared into its festering heart,
It ejected me in a howling thunderclap of sulphur soot.
And hurled me skyward, sand-blasted, and bruised,
The plume cleared, and the beast stood, wound-free—
Lava floods scorched, the city’s debt — a lifeblood hue,
By sunrise, my perennial task returned to enslave me.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
