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Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 577,726 ratings — published 2002
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,564,436 ratings — published 1915
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.14 — 326,234 ratings — published 1994
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 89 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 349,833 ratings — published 2009
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.09 — 213,687 ratings — published 2000
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.20 — 583,250 ratings — published 2020
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 158,131 ratings — published 1985
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.93 — 423,045 ratings — published 1925
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.80 — 334,357 ratings — published 2014
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.74 — 197,913 ratings — published 2004
The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,023 ratings — published 1974
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 624,426 ratings — published 1871
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,153,351 ratings — published 1967
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.44 — 372,827 ratings — published 2019
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.28 — 451,431 ratings — published 1967
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,529,455 ratings — published 1969
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.96 — 24,236 ratings — published 1967
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 146,906 ratings — published 1982
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,930 ratings — published 1959
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,139,416 ratings — published 2011
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.60 — 113,259 ratings — published 2018
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.53 — 14,041 ratings — published 1928
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,429 ratings — published 1988
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.65 — 460,258 ratings — published 2007
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 773,884 ratings — published 1987
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.54 — 72,428 ratings — published 2005
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 666,857 ratings — published 2013
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,292 ratings — published 1979
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,840 ratings — published 2009
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.72 — 59,001 ratings — published 2014
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,836 ratings — published 1928
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,379 ratings — published 1962
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,355 ratings — published 1937
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,924 ratings — published 2017
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 189,376 ratings — published 1999
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.45 — 95,273 ratings — published 1998
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.68 — 161,446 ratings — published 1994
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,611,968 ratings — published 1943
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 129,296 ratings — published 1969
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.90 — 80,456 ratings — published 1926
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.50 — 216,985 ratings — published 2016
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.04 — 111,899 ratings — published 1955
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 60,059 ratings — published 1993
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,078,971 ratings — published 1979
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,005,479 ratings — published 2001
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 — 389,180 ratings — published 1971
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 62,672 ratings — published 2020
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 453,818 ratings — published 1865
Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,611 ratings — published 2015
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.13 — 805,724 ratings — published 2002
“This is Lilly Heaven saying good night, and to all a very good night. Good night everybody. Here's wishing you pleasant dreams. Sleep tight. From all of us to all of you, a warm good night. And now we must, I'm afraid, say "good night." Good night, ladies and gentlemen, and good night. Thanks a lot and God bless you. This is Lilly signing off and wishing all of you out there from all of us in here the very best possible good night. I can only hope that you enjoyed watching us as much as we enjoyed being here. Good night. Pleasant dreams. Sleep tight. It's been wonderful being with you, and I hope you'll invite us into your living room again tomorrow night. From the actors and myself, from the staff here, I want to wish you all the best possible night and day before we meet again. It's been wonderful being with you. It's been truly grand. I only wish we could go on but I'm afraid our time is up, and so this is your Lily saying good night to you. Pleasant dreams. Good night all. Good night to you all. Good night to all of you. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. To all of you out there from all of us here good night. And pleasant dreams till we meet again. Good night to you all. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night.”
― War and Four Other Plays
― War and Four Other Plays
“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.”
―
