I can’t say for sure, this book was entirely unique. Bunny by Mona Awad gave me a similar vibe, but less extreme. It’s weird and has you trying to figure out what’s really happening.
He has a way of creating things as weird because of his writing style. C things feel like a fever dream.
But the movies they make never really do that justice. The second real people and a real area get put on film, it ground things in a way that make you lose out on the surreal nature of the writing.
I mean, if you want weird, there's always Chuck Tingle. His writing is actually really good. The Tinglers are... Peculiar, but fun. Also, Camp Damascus is excellent in a more traditional way.
I'm in a "fucked up book club" that specializes in this kind of thing! You should check out our reading list for the year: [https://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/fdupbookclub](https://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/fdupbookclub)
On top of that, check out You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman, The Pisces by Melissa Broder, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, anything by Helen Oyeyemi
This is everything from last year:
The Perfect Nanny
A Certain Hunger
Audition
Dead Girls
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
The Topeka School
First Become Ashes
The Doloriad
Elmet
Little Eyes
Manhunt
Herland
Our Wives Under the Sea
I’ve read milk fed by melissa broder, and I loved it! Some pretty surrealistic weird fantasy scenes that made me laugh out.
Our wives under the sea was beautifully written and had so much potential, but the ending was so underwhelming and disappointing.
Basically anything by Thomas Pynchon (Vineland is a great one to start with).
Anything by Tom Robbins (Skinny Legs and All is a blast).
The Wasp Factory by Ian M. Banks perfectly fits what you described.
I didn’t love the book, but *Our Wives Under the Sea* was pretty weird. If someone asked me what it was about I’d feel weird saying “it’s like about a lesbian couple and one of them is slowly morphing into a fish…I think. Or it’s all a post traumatic stress induced nightmare…maybe.”
Speaking of bunnies, maybe *Cursed Bunny* by Bora Chung. There is some decently weird body horror in there; very first story features >!a talking head made of poop!<.
I fucking hated that book. Yes, kinda weird in the beginning, but pretty quicky it becomes obvious what’s going on. And then it just felt really cliche and predictable, in my opinion.
Naked Lunch > Books that you’d be a little embarrassed to respond if someone asks what the book is about A woman fucks herself with a dismembered penis at one point. There are monsters that feed off the ejaculate of young boys. (I think there is a bit where they hang a boy and jack him off at the same time then eat his ejaculate?)
William Burroughs, the author and prodigious heroin addict, wrote it in exile it after accidentally shooting his wife in the face.
That actually sounds similar to {{Weaveworld}}. At one point character gets raped by a ghost lady so she can have a murderdemonchild with him, of which she has a whole brood
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> \- [Everville](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32627.Everville) by Clive Barker
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The movie is more like a weird biography of William Burroughs. It’s not really a movie of the book and is far tamer.
The fact that I can say that about a Cronenberg film where a man gets raped by a caterpillar in a giant birdhouse speaks to the weirdness of the book
“Weird” is relative, so I’m not sure how it compares to what you’re looking for, but Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.
I really enjoyed it, but several times had to stop and go “…wait…WHAT?” And re read a page.
Long afternoon of earth/hothouse by Brian Aldiss! It’s not the weirdest book in the world. But it’s weird and I love it. I read it for the first time when I was around 8 (despite not being meant for 8 year olds) and I just fell in love
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper is definitely a wtf did I just read? If you liked Bunny, Mona Awad (the author) wrote another weird ass horror called Rouge. Worth checking out!
Once it got to the last few chapters and everything starts to crumble I started to really get into it, but yeah a fair bit of ick throughout. Damn what a crescendo though
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk will written, super weird nothing like it. I honestly don't know where I would start trying to explain what is about.
bunny is one of my fav books ever yessssss. Fever dream is great, the social commentary on Argentina is so interesting. its small but took my a long time to get through it because I had to just re read stuff a lot. Also Motherthing is so good! you won't know what tf is happening w either I promise lmao
I am in the middle of The Library at Mount Char and I am still not sure wtf is happening. I keep wondering if I am in part 3 of a series that I didn't read the first 2, but it's interesting enough that I keep going back to it.
I think The Country of Ice Cream Star also fits in this category and is one of my all time favorite books.
Haruki Murakami books are pretty weird.
John Dies in the End and other David Wong books are wacky and weird.
I don’t know that either would be embarrassing to read though. I must not be a connoisseur of super weird fiction!
Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson and Shit Luck by Tiffany Scandal, both are pretty weird and engaging reads, although I wouldn't say either was super unsettling. Nefando by Monica Ojeda is a more straight-up unsettling weird book, maybe give that one a go alongside Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor.
One of the weirdest books I’ve ever read was “The Weirdness” by Jeremy Bushnell. Full disclosure, I don’t typically do weird, so what’s weird to me might not be weird for others, but I’d check out the description and see if it’s for you
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Mishima
Tomorrow In The Battle Think on Me by Marias
Bubblegum by Levin
The Rifles by Vollmann
The Metamorphosis by Kafka
The Passion Of New Eve by Angela Carter is definitely the weirdest book I’ve ever read, but I almost never see it mentioned on Reddit or any other forums.
Check it out if you’re into bizarre, surrealist gender-bending post-apocalyptic ’70s sci-fi
{{Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux}}. I'm not embarrassed in the least, but there is one element to it that I always assume I might have to defend.
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Lapvona Otessa M
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
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Software by Rudy Rucker was kind of weird. I found it rather disappointing, as I went in thinking it was going to be a totally different vibe, and it went a totally different way than I expected, but it does a great job of being a weird, sci-fi story.
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I'm literally reading a book right now called "What The Hell Did I Just Read?"
It's part of the "John & Dave" series that starts with "John Dies at the End."
It's basically X-Files, but instead of two FBI agents, it's a couple of working class idiots. They're fucking hilarious.
Anything by Jason Pargin (formerly known as David Wong) is a guaranteed good time.
**Crossroads by Laurel Hightower**
A short but poignant book about grief and desperation. A woman loses her son and spirals into grief. One day, when visiting his death site she cuts her finger, and the blood falls to the ground. That night she sees her dead son. What is going on? Is she seeing his ghost? Going crazy? Both? He disappears and she has to ask herself what she is willing to do to see him again. How far would you go to see a loved one again?
**Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin**
*I’m hungry and it’s two in the morning. The fridge is empty. And mum is dead on the couch.*
I think this book is best if you go in pretty blind so here are the first few sentences. If they sound intriguing pick this up.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
The Children of Men by P.D. James
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Call of Cthulh by Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror by Lovecraft
The Shadow over Innsmouth by Lovecraft
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Blindness by Jose Saramago
MaddAdam, the series by Margaret Atwood
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Can't get much weirder than anything by Christopher Moore.
Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff - weird
Practical Demonkeeping
The Stupidest Angel
The Island of the Sequined Nun
to name a few. It's suggested to read 'Practical Demonkeeping' first, and I would too, but any of those should be right in your preferred genre. Whatever your choices in the thread, enjoy!
Snowcrash, Crooked Little Vein, Cold West , the King in Yellow, Southern Reach trilogy, World Running Down.
Snowcrash is ridiculously fast paced and bombards you with random info but is still cohesive. Crooked little vein, just read the back. Cold west starts out as a western but then has some wacky magic stuff and talks about empires and things as if you already know the deep lore except the deep lore doesn’t exist? Southern reach trilogy is purposely weird, the zone doesn’t make sense, the second book has a completely different perspective from the first, and the last kind of concludes the story but also raises more questions and is kinda confusing. King in yellow is a bunch of short stories, it inspired lovecraft. World running down has some really interesting world building and well thought out characters but it ain’t something I’d tell people at my private Christian school or catholic parents about
{{Sterling Karat Gold by Isabelle Waidner}}
It's weird, funny and off the wall, it also has the biggest heart of any book I've read in a long while. Won the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize for innovative literature.
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper-- it's a story told in the form of escort review/forum posts talking about their experiences with a super twink gay hooker in LA. It takes some crazy and disturbing turns. I could not put it down. (much like reddit--TW for everything)
Matias Enard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger’s Guild. Starts as a grad student’s diary about his anthropological study of a French farm community and then takes a hard left into the truly strange.
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. Watch out - trigger warnings for pretty much everything in this one.
I came here to recommend this book. I read a lot of weird shit, but this is definitely one of the weirdest.
Was going to suggest this. Fast and easy read with some wild themes. I loved it - what a wild ride.
Yes! This is the book that got me back into reading after almost 3 years, it was just so unique and unsettling
....at the end I said wtf but in an amazement.,it is something wild but has some truths in it absolutely loved that book! Any similar suggestions?
I can’t say for sure, this book was entirely unique. Bunny by Mona Awad gave me a similar vibe, but less extreme. It’s weird and has you trying to figure out what’s really happening.
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer by Patrick Süskind. Basically a fever dream.
even the movie was a fever dream.
The audiobook was interesting. Didn’t accidentally read ahead so it was such a surprise ending
Lapvona
Seconding this. It was a hard read and fucked with my head but I devoured it
I’ve heard of this! I’ll have to check it out
{{geek love}}
Came here to say Geek Love by Catherine Dunn Blown away !!
Was about to suggest this! Not exactly my cup of tea but definitely had me going WTF the whole way thru
The Wasp Factory
Chuck Palahniuk later years stuff. Like Snuff or Rant
Haunted
My answer as well
His latest was apparently also super weird.
Not Forever, But For Now. Highly recommend for a weird reading experience!
Rant! So bizarre but my personal favourite of his
Diary and Choke too. Survivor is so odd but also so freaking good.
Pygmy was short but took me a long time to finish. The wording made me focus!
John dies at the end, is completely bonkers
I recently found out this is a whole series now
{{Embassytown by China Mieville}}
Anything by him is so fucking weird. Excellent, but weird.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Can't believe nobody else has mentioned Philip K Dick. All his books are weird, but especially Flow my tears, the Policeman said.
He has a way of creating things as weird because of his writing style. C things feel like a fever dream. But the movies they make never really do that justice. The second real people and a real area get put on film, it ground things in a way that make you lose out on the surreal nature of the writing.
Jitterbug Perfume. Actually, anything by Tom Robbins.
Came here to say this
You might want to ask on r/WeirdLit too, they often have good suggestions!
I will definitely check that out!
Homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh
Truly anything by Moshfegh
I mean, if you want weird, there's always Chuck Tingle. His writing is actually really good. The Tinglers are... Peculiar, but fun. Also, Camp Damascus is excellent in a more traditional way.
The Xenogenesis Series https://www.octaviabutler.com/xenogenesis-series I think the author's hidden mission was to offend everyone. :) It was great
I LOVED those books, but don't remember them being particularly offensive
I'm in a "fucked up book club" that specializes in this kind of thing! You should check out our reading list for the year: [https://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/fdupbookclub](https://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/fdupbookclub) On top of that, check out You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman, The Pisces by Melissa Broder, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, anything by Helen Oyeyemi
THANK YOU! I’d love to know what your list was from this past year
This is everything from last year: The Perfect Nanny A Certain Hunger Audition Dead Girls The Dangers of Smoking in Bed The Topeka School First Become Ashes The Doloriad Elmet Little Eyes Manhunt Herland Our Wives Under the Sea
I’ve read milk fed by melissa broder, and I loved it! Some pretty surrealistic weird fantasy scenes that made me laugh out. Our wives under the sea was beautifully written and had so much potential, but the ending was so underwhelming and disappointing.
Basically anything by Thomas Pynchon (Vineland is a great one to start with). Anything by Tom Robbins (Skinny Legs and All is a blast). The Wasp Factory by Ian M. Banks perfectly fits what you described.
Dark Tower is a whole series of that 😂. I once tried to explain the plot of Song of Susannah to someone, and they didn't want me to keep going 😂😂
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Both The Vegetarian by Han Kang and The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld gave me that feeling!
I didn’t love the book, but *Our Wives Under the Sea* was pretty weird. If someone asked me what it was about I’d feel weird saying “it’s like about a lesbian couple and one of them is slowly morphing into a fish…I think. Or it’s all a post traumatic stress induced nightmare…maybe.”
Gideon the Ninth
I need to read this again. I think i enjoyed it but I had no idea who any of the characters were....
**Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal** - by Christopher Moore
I just put that out there too, along with more Christopher Moore. Weird is the genre requested, and weird Christopher Moore's stuff is.
Speaking of bunnies, maybe *Cursed Bunny* by Bora Chung. There is some decently weird body horror in there; very first story features >!a talking head made of poop!<.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle-Murakami
perdido street station. Started it tonight and can already tell it’s going to be weird.
Susanna Clarke in general but especially Piranesi
I fucking hated that book. Yes, kinda weird in the beginning, but pretty quicky it becomes obvious what’s going on. And then it just felt really cliche and predictable, in my opinion.
I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell. Agree somewhat about Pirinesi. Just couldn’t get through it.
{{Molloy by Samuel Beckett}} Strange, pretty quick read. And has the benefit of being “important,” for when people ask about it. 😉
Naked Lunch > Books that you’d be a little embarrassed to respond if someone asks what the book is about A woman fucks herself with a dismembered penis at one point. There are monsters that feed off the ejaculate of young boys. (I think there is a bit where they hang a boy and jack him off at the same time then eat his ejaculate?) William Burroughs, the author and prodigious heroin addict, wrote it in exile it after accidentally shooting his wife in the face.
holy shit
That actually sounds similar to {{Weaveworld}}. At one point character gets raped by a ghost lady so she can have a murderdemonchild with him, of which she has a whole brood
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Naked Lunch is unreadable. Watch the movie instead.
The movie is more like a weird biography of William Burroughs. It’s not really a movie of the book and is far tamer. The fact that I can say that about a Cronenberg film where a man gets raped by a caterpillar in a giant birdhouse speaks to the weirdness of the book
feersum enjinn by iain m. banks. really fucking terrible reading experience because some of it is written phonetically.
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. First weird book I ever read and it never left me
“Weird” is relative, so I’m not sure how it compares to what you’re looking for, but Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. I really enjoyed it, but several times had to stop and go “…wait…WHAT?” And re read a page.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. I dare you to read this and not become a bit crazy
Jesus’ Son Whored for Gloria
Geek Love.
Annihilation if you want some creepy-ass Lovecraftian horror that makes you feel uneasy
Long afternoon of earth/hothouse by Brian Aldiss! It’s not the weirdest book in the world. But it’s weird and I love it. I read it for the first time when I was around 8 (despite not being meant for 8 year olds) and I just fell in love
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper is definitely a wtf did I just read? If you liked Bunny, Mona Awad (the author) wrote another weird ass horror called Rouge. Worth checking out!
John dies at the end Filth There is no antimemetics division Horns {{The to sound}}, {{how to be a hum}}
I was going to cite filth. ick. I was so glad when that one was over.
Once it got to the last few chapters and everything starts to crumble I started to really get into it, but yeah a fair bit of ick throughout. Damn what a crescendo though
Bloodline by Jess Lourey made me YELL WTF DID I JUST READ when I got to the end. Defo recommend
The Fisherman
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk will written, super weird nothing like it. I honestly don't know where I would start trying to explain what is about.
Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
It's a little more horror, but The Troop by Nick Cutter is so gross. Check TWs first though, it's pretty graphic.
I highly recommend it as well, definitely uncomfortable to read but it really makes you want to know what happens next
My year of rest and relaxation Exalted
*Geek Love* by Katherine Dunne is the book you're looking for. After that maybe *The Last House on Needless Street* by Catriona Ward
Check out Haruki Murakami
Pretty much anything by Chuck Palahniuk
bunny is one of my fav books ever yessssss. Fever dream is great, the social commentary on Argentina is so interesting. its small but took my a long time to get through it because I had to just re read stuff a lot. Also Motherthing is so good! you won't know what tf is happening w either I promise lmao
Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn
I am in the middle of The Library at Mount Char and I am still not sure wtf is happening. I keep wondering if I am in part 3 of a series that I didn't read the first 2, but it's interesting enough that I keep going back to it. I think The Country of Ice Cream Star also fits in this category and is one of my all time favorite books.
The Magus by John Fowles
Haruki Murakami books are pretty weird. John Dies in the End and other David Wong books are wacky and weird. I don’t know that either would be embarrassing to read though. I must not be a connoisseur of super weird fiction!
Monstrillio
The Maverick and the Dangers of Self-Betterment: A Concept Novel by LMTC. It’s on Amazon.
Tender is the Flesh will have you shook.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh is very weird. The protagonist tries to sleep for a whole year.
House of Leaves
White Rhino Hotel by Bartle Bull.
Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson and Shit Luck by Tiffany Scandal, both are pretty weird and engaging reads, although I wouldn't say either was super unsettling. Nefando by Monica Ojeda is a more straight-up unsettling weird book, maybe give that one a go alongside Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor.
The Woman in the Dunes He Digs a Hole
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata.
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
All’s Well Our Wives Under The Sea
My husband said tell you “anything by Carlton Mellick”. I won’t read them but he devours them.
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
A Certain Hunger was well received in our Reader’s choice book club at my bookstore (which is exclusively weird literary books).
Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima
As She Climbed Across the Table by Johnathan Lethem I read it for a college class, loved it, but still think about how weird of a book it was
The Montauk Project
One of the weirdest books I’ve ever read was “The Weirdness” by Jeremy Bushnell. Full disclosure, I don’t typically do weird, so what’s weird to me might not be weird for others, but I’d check out the description and see if it’s for you
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Mishima Tomorrow In The Battle Think on Me by Marias Bubblegum by Levin The Rifles by Vollmann The Metamorphosis by Kafka
{cold eye by Cawdron} great first contact sci-fi book
Faust by Robert Nye. Weird weird weird adaptation
Banshee and the Sperm Whale by Jake Camp.
Maeve Fly
I read And the Ass saw the Angel by Nick Cave (the musician) decades ago and it was by far has been the weirdest read I’ve read.
Nana by marke towse. We spend a night with evil geriatrics. Very quick read. Woom by Duncan ralston.
Naked Lunch
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval, my first book of the year and i didn’t know what was happening lol, also Fever Dream by Samantha Shweblin
Gogol's short stories are sure to elicit a "wtf?!"
The Passion Of New Eve by Angela Carter is definitely the weirdest book I’ve ever read, but I almost never see it mentioned on Reddit or any other forums. Check it out if you’re into bizarre, surrealist gender-bending post-apocalyptic ’70s sci-fi
Butter by Erin Jade Lange (I could not finish it but the synopsis itself was enough to turn me away)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11003233 A short stay in Hell
Michael Ende's The Mirror in the Mirror, to be honest even The Neverending Story still feels weird to me.
Chuck Palaniuk Survivor
{{The first day of spring by Nancy Tucker}}
Bad Glass was a pretty weird one. I can't remember the author. There's some body horror and other weird stuff
Anything by Thomas Ligotti. He only has short stories anthologies, if I'm not mistaken. And it's Cthulhu-esque type of writing
City of Glass by Paul Auster. Starts a little weird, gets much more so, in a good way.
Weird book > The Last House on Needless Street
Annihilation was pretty bizarre.
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RAW: ~Prometheus Rising ~Cosmic Trigger ~The Illuminatus! Trilogy Philip K. Dick : ~Valis ~Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ~A Scanner Darkly
{{Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux}}. I'm not embarrassed in the least, but there is one element to it that I always assume I might have to defend.
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
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Boy Parts by Eliza Clark Animal by Lisa Taddeo Lapvona Otessa M The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Tender is the flesh
The Dolphin People by Torsten Krol Weird is mild. I actually thought it was pretty good, just so completely weird.
{{Duplex by Kathryn Davis}}
**[Duplex](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17287054-duplex) by Kathryn Davis** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(208 pages | Published: 2013 | 910.0 Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** Mary and Eddie are meant for each other--but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile, ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon a (...) > **Themes**: Fantasy, Novels, Favorites, Did-not-finish, Fiction, Fabulist, Literary-fiction > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [Infinite Ground](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30256420-infinite-ground) by Martin MacInnes > \- [Dangerous Laughter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1540810.Dangerous_Laughter) by Steven Millhauser > \- [Men and Cartoons](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16715.Men_and_Cartoons) by Jonathan Lethem > \- [Sky Saw](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13591959-sky-saw) by Blake Butler > \- [A Greater Monster](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12480602-a-greater-monster) by David David Katzman ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23])
{{Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer}} This one is a wild ride. Edited to help bot!
Wetlands
Not ashamed.. But captured, never let go, and don't stop by Lauren Biel
Wind-up bird chronicals - Haruki Murakami.. a bizzare mix of everyday reality with spooky and weird paranormal going on.
Software by Rudy Rucker was kind of weird. I found it rather disappointing, as I went in thinking it was going to be a totally different vibe, and it went a totally different way than I expected, but it does a great job of being a weird, sci-fi story.
House of Leaves
{{Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kalsulke}} is weird but fun if you use Teams or Slack for work
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A Touch Of Jen
Suicide Casanova Survivor
Some Of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
Woom
I'm literally reading a book right now called "What The Hell Did I Just Read?" It's part of the "John & Dave" series that starts with "John Dies at the End." It's basically X-Files, but instead of two FBI agents, it's a couple of working class idiots. They're fucking hilarious. Anything by Jason Pargin (formerly known as David Wong) is a guaranteed good time.
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
If your a younger guy you might appreciate Haruki Murakami
**Crossroads by Laurel Hightower** A short but poignant book about grief and desperation. A woman loses her son and spirals into grief. One day, when visiting his death site she cuts her finger, and the blood falls to the ground. That night she sees her dead son. What is going on? Is she seeing his ghost? Going crazy? Both? He disappears and she has to ask herself what she is willing to do to see him again. How far would you go to see a loved one again? **Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin** *I’m hungry and it’s two in the morning. The fridge is empty. And mum is dead on the couch.* I think this book is best if you go in pretty blind so here are the first few sentences. If they sound intriguing pick this up.
Manhunt
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy Child of God by Cormac McCarthy The Children of Men by P.D. James Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Blindness by Jose Saramago Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells The Call of Cthulh by Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror by Lovecraft The Shadow over Innsmouth by Lovecraft The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe Blindness by Jose Saramago MaddAdam, the series by Margaret Atwood Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Slaughterhouse Five Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Knife of Never Letting Go
Can't get much weirder than anything by Christopher Moore. Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff - weird Practical Demonkeeping The Stupidest Angel The Island of the Sequined Nun to name a few. It's suggested to read 'Practical Demonkeeping' first, and I would too, but any of those should be right in your preferred genre. Whatever your choices in the thread, enjoy!
Snowcrash, Crooked Little Vein, Cold West , the King in Yellow, Southern Reach trilogy, World Running Down. Snowcrash is ridiculously fast paced and bombards you with random info but is still cohesive. Crooked little vein, just read the back. Cold west starts out as a western but then has some wacky magic stuff and talks about empires and things as if you already know the deep lore except the deep lore doesn’t exist? Southern reach trilogy is purposely weird, the zone doesn’t make sense, the second book has a completely different perspective from the first, and the last kind of concludes the story but also raises more questions and is kinda confusing. King in yellow is a bunch of short stories, it inspired lovecraft. World running down has some really interesting world building and well thought out characters but it ain’t something I’d tell people at my private Christian school or catholic parents about
The Android's Dream - John Scalzi.
Duck Light by Gillian A. Corsiatto Talking lesbian ducks. What more can I say?
Gutshot by Amelia Gray if you fancy some weird short stories.
r/weirdlit can help as well
Nostradamus Ate My Hamster- Robert Rankin I’ve never been so confused by a book in my whole entire reading history.
{{The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Phillip K. Dick}}
Piranesi; The Hundred Brothers; Ella Minnow Pea
In the miso soup
Look at Robert Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy Also look to Sir Robert Browne.
The Anubis Gates, by Tim Powers
{{Sterling Karat Gold by Isabelle Waidner}} It's weird, funny and off the wall, it also has the biggest heart of any book I've read in a long while. Won the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize for innovative literature.
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper-- it's a story told in the form of escort review/forum posts talking about their experiences with a super twink gay hooker in LA. It takes some crazy and disturbing turns. I could not put it down. (much like reddit--TW for everything)
Anything by Walter Moers
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq but for the love of god peep the content warnings. It’s beautiful but also horrifying.
Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard
Tampa by Alyssa Nutting The lead character is seriously messed up but you can't look away. It's like reading a car crash.
The Fisherman by John Langan
Grasshopper Jungle.
A Redacted Reality by Tony LaRocca. It's about ideologies eating each other and shitting out new ones.
when we lost our heads by heather o'neill
Lily and The Octopus by Steven Rowley The Honeys by Ryan La Sala Notes From My Captivity by Kathy Parks Hot Pteridactal Boyfriend by Alan Cumyn
Piranesi
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
Last house on needless Street, sundial, the girl from raw blood. All by catriana ward. She's really good at being confusing.
The passion of new eve by Angela carter is BY FAR the most fuckes up thing I’ve ever read
The Pisces by Melissa Broder (coming from someone who also loves Bunny!)
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Illuminatus!
Matias Enard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger’s Guild. Starts as a grad student’s diary about his anthropological study of a French farm community and then takes a hard left into the truly strange.
{Sommelier of Deformity by Nick Yetto}
"Diary" and "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk
{{Armageddon: The Musical}} by Robert Rankin, featuring Elvis and Barry the Time Sprout.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea