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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLost in the Funhouse
John Barth · 201 pages
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Samuel Beckett · 336 pages
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino · 129 pages
City of Saints and Madmen
Jeff VanderMeer · 456 pages
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Jorge Luis Borges · 167 pages
Memories of the Future
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling "everything you need for suicide"; an absentminded p
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Alissa Nutting · 188 pages
"Fiction. Winner of the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, chosen Ben Marcus. In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are investigated through various ill-fated jobs. One is the main course of dinner, another the porn star contracted to copulate in space for a reality TV show. They become futuristic ant farms, get knocked up by the st
The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
Manuel Gonzales · 304 pages
A collection of short works set in a range of fantastical settings explores such themes as disproportional guilt, the reinvention of self, and the powerful urges to defend and provide for loved ones.
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nikolai Gogol · 271 pages
The Age of Wire and String
Ben Marcus · 140 pages
Here is an indispensable tool for anyone seeking an authoritative, up-to-the-minute understanding of the phenomena of everyday life and willing to accept that anything utterable can also be true. An astounding debut, The Age of Wire and String is a feat of fierce innovation and humor.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · 526 pages
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters.
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Thomas Pynchon · 492 pages
Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dram
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
Chuck Palahniuk · 336 pages
"Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tr
Pricksongs & Descants
Robert Coover · 256 pages
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
George Saunders · 179 pages
George Saunders has seen the future of America and it is funny. Bleak, yes, and sad and toxic and greedy - and very, very weird - but funny, too. With today's malls and theme parks and ecological disasters as their foundation, these stories build a tomorrow inhabited by fat executives in despair, genetic mutants in servitude, virtual-reality merchants in Chapter 11, and American Dreamers everywher
The Fun Parts
Sam Lipsyte · 229 pages
Presents a collection of stories featuring such characters as a deranged male birth doula, an aerobics instructor trying to save her soul, and a doomsday hustler.
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Will Self · 211 pages
The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane ... The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic, satirical, hilariou
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Zsuzsi Gartner · 216 pages
A collection of satirical and darkly humorous stories set in Vancouver which tackle themes of evolution, manhood, international adoption, real estate, the movie industry, science and faith, art, and terrorism.
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories
Raphael Bob-Waksberg · 256 pages
Unlikely Stories, Mostly
Alasdair Gray · 273 pages