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Surreal Books
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Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 566,161 ratings — published 2002
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,506,076 ratings — published 1915
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.14 — 321,640 ratings — published 1994
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 89 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 345,847 ratings — published 2009
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.09 — 208,829 ratings — published 2000
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 155,946 ratings — published 1985
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.20 — 535,889 ratings — published 2020
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 412,388 ratings — published 1925
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.74 — 194,314 ratings — published 2004
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.80 — 322,952 ratings — published 2014
The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 13,666 ratings — published 1974
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 618,966 ratings — published 1871
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,133,362 ratings — published 1967
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.45 — 357,056 ratings — published 2019
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.28 — 439,047 ratings — published 1967
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,511,696 ratings — published 1969
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,699 ratings — published 1967
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 144,874 ratings — published 1982
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,125,362 ratings — published 2011
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,079 ratings — published 1959
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.60 — 108,311 ratings — published 2018
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,733 ratings — published 1928
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.04 — 102,047 ratings — published 1988
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 756,211 ratings — published 1987
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.65 — 430,414 ratings — published 2007
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.54 — 71,404 ratings — published 2005
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 663,526 ratings — published 2013
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.90 — 81,257 ratings — published 2009
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 115,452 ratings — published 1979
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.72 — 56,613 ratings — published 2014
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,339 ratings — published 1928
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,127 ratings — published 1962
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 36,263 ratings — published 1937
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.83 — 186,084 ratings — published 1999
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,812 ratings — published 2017
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.69 — 151,849 ratings — published 1994
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,557,921 ratings — published 1943
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,579 ratings — published 1926
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 126,955 ratings — published 1969
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.50 — 211,476 ratings — published 2016
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.45 — 92,665 ratings — published 1998
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 59,413 ratings — published 1993
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 999,880 ratings — published 2001
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,055,242 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 — 385,409 ratings — published 1971
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 447,372 ratings — published 1865
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,037 ratings — published 1955
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.13 — 796,650 ratings — published 2002
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,487 ratings — published 1972
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.03 — 45,653 ratings — published 2020
“Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was—to strip it all bare and start from scratch, as it were. In his nearly 250 years of life and, now, as an old emaciated man completely estranged from his family and closest friends—albeit more by circumstance than by choice—he understood the importance of this process and revered it, for there were far greater things to be done and achieved in the dark, uncertain areas of existence than in those circumscribed—and thereby strained—by comprehensibility.”
― Only the Deplorable
― Only the Deplorable
“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.”
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