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Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 575,114 ratings — published 2002
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,548,587 ratings — published 1915
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.14 — 325,186 ratings — published 1994
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 89 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.95 — 348,932 ratings — published 2009
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,527 ratings — published 2000
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 157,639 ratings — published 1985
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.20 — 570,703 ratings — published 2020
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.93 — 420,489 ratings — published 1925
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.80 — 331,818 ratings — published 2014
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.74 — 197,099 ratings — published 2004
The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,687 ratings — published 1974
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.06 — 622,998 ratings — published 1871
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,147,475 ratings — published 1967
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.44 — 369,017 ratings — published 2019
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.28 — 448,308 ratings — published 1925
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,525,377 ratings — published 1969
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.96 — 24,103 ratings — published 1967
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 146,450 ratings — published 1982
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,705 ratings — published 1959
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,136,336 ratings — published 2011
Nadja (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,956 ratings — published 1928
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.60 — 112,078 ratings — published 2018
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,111 ratings — published 1988
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 769,928 ratings — published 1987
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.65 — 453,231 ratings — published 2007
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.54 — 72,210 ratings — published 2005
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 666,048 ratings — published 2013
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.01 — 116,863 ratings — published 1979
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,427 ratings — published 2009
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.72 — 58,478 ratings — published 2014
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,714 ratings — published 1928
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,095 ratings — published 1962
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,094 ratings — published 1937
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,899 ratings — published 2017
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 188,634 ratings — published 1999
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.45 — 94,612 ratings — published 1998
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.68 — 159,303 ratings — published 1994
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,599,660 ratings — published 1943
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.11 — 128,725 ratings — published 1969
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.91 — 80,005 ratings — published 1926
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.50 — 215,387 ratings — published 2016
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 59,906 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 — 2,073,463 ratings — published 1979
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,004,020 ratings — published 2001
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.05 — 110,741 ratings — published 1955
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 — 388,294 ratings — published 1971
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,513 ratings — published 2020
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.99 — 452,284 ratings — published 1865
Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,519 ratings — published 2015
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as surreal)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,331 ratings — published 2002
“I’ve seen Narbonic (and now Skin Horse) described as surreal or absurd, but they always strike me as almost depressingly logical. What I try to do is start from a point of mild deviation from the norm and gradually, ploddingly, build from there until the plot becomes toweringly irrational and you have hamsters in flying islands and whatnot.”
― Narbonic
― Narbonic
“U-2200 is a heavily worn, approximately egg-shaped 1.07-meter-tall monolith of tenasserite limestone inhabited by Gua, a non-corporeal entity that claims to be the prehistoric Johorean god of forgetting how to ride a bicycle.
[...]
U-2200 claims to have dwelled within the stone since its carving, more than 5,000 years ago. Exactly what U-2200 did between that time and the invention of the first actual bicycle in the 19th century is a matter of some debate. Consensus among Organization academics is that U-2200 did nothing, and probably did not exist in its present form. U-2200, however, claims that the bicycle has been invented dozens of times by cultures in all parts of the globe over the course of the past 5,000 years, only for U-2200 to engulf, consume, and negate all human knowledge not only of the riding of bicycles but of the mechanism of the bicycle, before lapsing back into dormancy. It calls this “the Bicyclecycle.”
― There Is No Antimemetics Division
[...]
U-2200 claims to have dwelled within the stone since its carving, more than 5,000 years ago. Exactly what U-2200 did between that time and the invention of the first actual bicycle in the 19th century is a matter of some debate. Consensus among Organization academics is that U-2200 did nothing, and probably did not exist in its present form. U-2200, however, claims that the bicycle has been invented dozens of times by cultures in all parts of the globe over the course of the past 5,000 years, only for U-2200 to engulf, consume, and negate all human knowledge not only of the riding of bicycles but of the mechanism of the bicycle, before lapsing back into dormancy. It calls this “the Bicyclecycle.”
― There Is No Antimemetics Division
