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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino · 129 pages
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Samuel Beckett · 336 pages
Girl With Curious Hair
David Foster Wallace · 373 pages
Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth · 201 pages
City of Saints and Madmen
Jeff VanderMeer · 456 pages
Pricksongs & Descants
Robert Coover · 256 pages
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Jorge Luis Borges · 167 pages
Slow Learner: Early Stories
Thomas Pynchon · 193 pages
Three Moments of an Explosion
China Mieville · 406 pages
A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.
Black Vodka: Ten Stories
Deborah Levy · 125 pages
Teatro Grottesco
Thomas Ligotti · 312 pages
Adverbs: A Novel
Daniel Handler · 272 pages
Hello. I am Daniel Handler, the author of this book. Did you know that authors often write the summaries that appear on their book's dust jacket? You might want to think about that the next time you read something like, "A dazzling page-turner, this novel shows an internationally acclaimed storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers." "Adverbs" is a novel about love -- a bunch of differ
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
David Eagleman · 128 pages
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages, in some you are recreated based on your credit card records, and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could hav
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
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
Richard Brautigan · 173 pages
**Overview:** Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition : Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories
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
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Julian Barnes · 307 pages