Thief of Time
Terry Pratchett
1998 · 2013 edition
427 pages
The most popular absurdism books
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.
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Forrest Gump
Winston Groom
1986 · 1994 edition
228 pages
The Strange Library
Haruki Murakami, 上海图书馆
2005 · 2014 edition
80 pages
The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
1971 · 2018 edition
164 pages
Oblomov
Ivan Aleksandrovič Gončarov
1884 · 2009 edition
162 pages
Lonely Castle in The Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura
2017 · 2022 edition
384 pages
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
1974 · 2025 edition
256 pages
Life Ceremony Stories
Sayaka Murata
2022 · 2023 edition
272 pages
Shades of Grey
Jasper Fforde
2009 · 2011 edition
435 pages
Os Maias
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1975 · 2020 edition
764 pages
Ask the Dust
John Fante
1980 · 2016 edition
194 pages
Death with Interruptions
José Saramago
Published 2008
238 pages
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello
1980 · 2023 edition
98 pages
Will and Testament A Novel
Vigdis Hjorth
2016 · 2019 edition
336 pages
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
Published 1999
273 pages
Amerika
Franz Kafka
1972 · 2015 edition
240 pages
The Nose
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
2000 · 2015 edition
64 pages
Oracle Night A Novel
Paul Auster, Po-sŏk Hwang
2003 · 2009 edition
243 pages
The Golden Ass
Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington
1971 · 2025 edition
240 pages
The Trees
Percival L. Everett
2021 · 2023 edition
352 pages
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
1993 · 2017 edition
66 pages
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
Die, My Love
Ariana Harwicz
2012 · 2017 edition
123 pages
The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart
1971 · 1999 edition
541 pages