Hello,
Some time ago, I have been recommended Bunny, by Mona Awad, as many people said it was the weirdest book they had ever read. I just finished it and, even though it actually is weird…that's not really the weirdest book that fell into my hands (I think about Jeff Vandermeer, for example, among others, who made me feel more disturbed than Bunny).
What is the weirdest book you ever read ? Even books you usually would not really recommend to people you know, so you don't feel like you are the weirdo of the town 🙂 I am in search for my next "wtf did I just read ?" one.
Edit : I am not searching for "disturbing" things like mafia guys kidnapping girlies to make them fall in love with them, or the new wave of r*pe trend, that's not my definition of disturbing or weird (more stupid and disgusting, and that's not at all what I am searching for).
Thank you !
by FrenchieMatt
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Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins for easier reading and House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski for not easier reading.
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore. Read it about 5-6 months ago. Still not sure what the f I read. 🤷♀️
Ella Minnow Pea, for a book that’s extremely weird due to the actual way it’s formatted and structured
Milk fed or Lapvona are probably the weirdest I’ve ever read
Middlesex
Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn
Earthlings by sayaka murata was so weird
Child of God
Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but anything by Carlton Mellick III is weird. He writes bizarro fiction. People made out of candy canes and the like, but with horror mixed in. There’s lots.
*Amatka* by Karen Tidbeck was pretty weird IMO, set in a place where things turns into goop if you don’t keep labeling them.
House of Leaves and The Hollow Places. Also, Fluke by Christopher Moore.
Lincoln in the Bardo by Saunders
Greek Lessons by Kang
Suicide Casanova by Arthur Nersesian
Contortionists Handbook by Craig Clevenger
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
anything Chuck Palahniuk (favs: Haunted, Lullaby, and Diary).
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check out the genre Transgressive fiction/horror
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Lolita 🥴
*Les Chants de Maldoror* by *Comte de Lautreámont -* also known as “my favorite book of all time that I will take any and every opportunity to shill until someone finally reads it”
For me it’s Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott. It’s so so so good and weird at the same time
Gravity’s rainbow
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez was a wild, disturbing ride
Just finished ‘The Magus’! 🤯
Y/N by Esther Yi. It’s not so much disturbing, just really abstract and weird. It delves into celebrity obsession and worship, through the mind of a crazy fan.
I just read Shy Girl by Mia Ballard and it was pretty strange. As for Mona Awad, I found All’s Well leagues more interesting than Bunny
Moonwise by Greer Gilman
The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (so weird I couldn’t finish it)
oedipus wrecked
Lincoln in the Bardo was pretty wild…
“The Cheese Monkeys” was entertaining but really takes an odd turn 😅
Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall is quietly very strange and eerie!
For weirdness, you can’t beat The Urantia Book.
*Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician,* by Alfred Jarry. should do the trick 🙏