I'd love to hear about some books, the more obscure the better, where it had a really unique, interesting, or even batshit insane premise. I love sci-fi, horror, fantasy etc. Bonus points if female or LGBT character.
Examples of books I liked:
Dungeon Crawler Carl- world gets turned into apocalyptic video game where you basically have to try and survive on the surface or descend into the Dungeon world that has been newly created beneath the Earth and fight through to the end. Whoever survives gets to reclaim the earth for humanity.
Beware of Chicken- Guy wakes up in body of Jin Rou, a cultivator who was previously abused in his sect, chooses to leave the world of martial arts and live a peaceful life on a farm, only to discover that his seemingly ordinary rooster is actually a powerful spirit beast
Library at Mt Char- Bunch of orphans adopted by a godlike father figure, brought to a library outside of normal time and space, and taught various disciplines, go searching for lost dad.
Another Roadside Attraction – The story of a naturalist woman obsessed with butterflies, her magician husband whose baboon has an unusually high intellect, their baby boy named Thor (who was born during a thunderstorm), and their con-artist best friend who accidentally finds the body of Jesus Christ. These people decide to open a half-restaurant/half-zoo that only serves hot-dogs. Pure hilarity and ridiculousness from page one.
'Hater' trilogy (Hater, Dog Blood, Them or Us) – David Moody. Similar to a zombie apocalypse without the zombies. A percentage of humans become overrun with anxiety and fear, causing them to lash out and attempt to brutally murder anyone and everyone they see. They are dubbed 'haters' by the media, and feared by the 'unchanged'. From the haters' perspective, everyone else is out to get them, so they fight to stay alive.
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart: A police procedural where the victims are Chinese Gods and the detectives are a dumb strong kung fu practitioner and his immortal sage master.
Long Live Evil: Dying young woman who walks into her favourite fantasy book to find herself as the villainess
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Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. It takes a Faustian bargain narrative, brings it into the modern classical music world, and then adds in aliens? Plus for your wishlist, the protagonist is a woman who is trans.