
Moonlight & Mucus
B a Daugherty
Published 2025
470 pages
Absurdist books begin where the search for meaning meets a silent universe. Their answer is neither despair nor false comfort but a kind of defiant laughter. Expect strange situations, deadpan humor and heroes who carry on regardless, in essays, novels and plays. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

B a Daugherty
Published 2025
470 pages

James Goodhand
Published 2025
336 pages

Bruce Wagner, Dmitry Samarov
Published 2025
552 pages

Jordan Castro
Published 2025
272 pages

Franz Kafka
Published 2025
1217 pages

Ariel Courage
Published 2025
304 pages

Patrick Marlborough
Published 2025
288 pages

Bora Chung, Priscilla Layne, Anton Hur
Published 2025
208 pages

Saumya Dave
Published 2025
384 pages

Maria Reva
Published 2025
352 pages

Samantha Ryan
Published 2025
272 pages

Jonathan Lethem
Published 2025
400 pages

Gary Strickland
Published 2025
152 pages

A.D. Nettles
Published 2025
81 pages

Ernest Vincent Wright
Published 2025
190 pages

Michael Jenison
Published 2025
25 pages

Oliver James
Published 2025
88 pages

Rhys Hughes
Published 2025
177 pages

Jon Wesick
Published 2025
171 pages

Kat Chapp
Published 2025
68 pages

Frank Dyhr Olesen
Published 2025
188 pages

Rye Hamlet
Published 2025
180 pages

D. A. Goodrich
Published 2025
262 pages

James Parker
Published 2025
357 pages