Dr. No
Percival Everett
2022 · 2023 edition
288 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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One's Company
Ashley Hutson
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775 pages
Forty Stories
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256 pages
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275 pages
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THE CAPTAIN AND THE GLORY
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2019 · 2020 edition
128 pages
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Matt Ruff
1994 · 1998 edition
560 pages
Richard Yates
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206 pages
The Invoice A Novel
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Published 2016
208 pages
Lost in the Cosmos
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1983 · 1984 edition
256 pages
Masters of Atlantis
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1985 · 2010 edition
272 pages
Flames
Robbie Arnott
2018 · 2019 edition
240 pages
Estas ruinas que ves
Jorge Ibargüengoitia
1981 · 2018 edition
176 pages
Bring The Jubilee
Ward Moore
1976 · 2025 edition
164 pages
The Death of Francis Bacon
Max Porter
Published 2021
74 pages
Stone Junction An Alchemical Pot-Boiler
Thomas Pynchon, Jim Dodge
1991 · 2019 edition
544 pages
What Storm, What Thunder
Myriam J. A. Chancy
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil
Alexander McCall Smith
2011 · 2012 edition
203 pages
The Dog of the North
Elizabeth McKenzie
Published 2023
336 pages
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Will Self
1993 · 2006 edition
278 pages
The Core of the Sun
Johanna Sinisalo
2016 · 2017 edition
320 pages
A Void
Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair
1994 · 2025 edition
304 pages
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Will Self
1978 · 1994 edition
309 pages
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington, Kathrine Talbot, Anthony Kerrigan
Published 2017
232 pages