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Surreal Books
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Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.12 — 547,232 ratings — published 2002
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,420,390 ratings — published 1915
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.14 — 314,388 ratings — published 1994
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 88 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 339,422 ratings — published 2009
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.09 — 199,839 ratings — published 2000
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 152,271 ratings — published 1985
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 394,027 ratings — published 1925
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.74 — 188,465 ratings — published 2004
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.21 — 464,259 ratings — published 2020
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.80 — 301,769 ratings — published 2014
The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,154 ratings — published 1974
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 608,468 ratings — published 1871
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.28 — 419,160 ratings — published 1967
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 325,472 ratings — published 2019
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,102,512 ratings — published 1967
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,069 ratings — published 1969
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,897 ratings — published 1967
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 141,255 ratings — published 1982
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,096,360 ratings — published 2011
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,225 ratings — published 1928
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.60 — 99,489 ratings — published 2018
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,518 ratings — published 1959
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.55 — 69,703 ratings — published 2005
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.04 — 99,744 ratings — published 1988
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.65 — 377,669 ratings — published 2007
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 727,229 ratings — published 1987
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 657,158 ratings — published 2013
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 111,725 ratings — published 1979
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,519 ratings — published 2009
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.83 — 180,848 ratings — published 1999
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,574 ratings — published 2017
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.72 — 52,112 ratings — published 2014
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,367 ratings — published 1928
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,285 ratings — published 1962
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 34,626 ratings — published 1937
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.70 — 137,822 ratings — published 1994
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,470,521 ratings — published 1943
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 75,326 ratings — published 1926
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 122,603 ratings — published 1969
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 990,035 ratings — published 2001
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,930 ratings — published 1971
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 58,198 ratings — published 1993
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.51 — 201,399 ratings — published 2016
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 435,997 ratings — published 1865
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.13 — 781,229 ratings — published 2002
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,012,760 ratings — published 1979
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.40 — 78,946 ratings — published 1944
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.45 — 87,989 ratings — published 1998
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.05 — 99,500 ratings — published 1955
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,751,766 ratings — published 2001
“I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.”
― House of Incest
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.”
― House of Incest
“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.”
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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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