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Goodreads' 35 Absurdist Fiction Books

" Absurdist fiction uses satire, dark humor, irrationality, and agnostic or nihilistic themes to explore the human experience of incompleteness or meaninglessness. It also looks at the range of human responses to meaninglessness, including escapism, religiosity, and the conscious construction of a personal purpose.
In philosophy, absurdism is a form existentialism that views the human search for inherent meaning in the world as absurd. The absurdist view is that such a search must ultimately fail because the world is beyond our understanding."
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Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis
1
Franz Kafka
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
2
Albert Camus
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
3
Kurt Vonnegut
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4
Douglas Adams
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
5
George Orwell
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
6
Franz Kafka
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
7
Joseph Heller
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
8
George Orwell
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
9
Samuel Beckett
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
10
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
11
Kurt Vonnegut
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
12
Hunter S. Thompson
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
13
Lewis Carroll
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
14
Tom Stoppard
The Bad Beginning (Lemony Snicket)
The Bad Beginning
15
Lemony Snicket
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
16
Franz Kafka
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
17
Albert Camus
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Susskind)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
18
Patrick Susskind
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Fall
19
Albert Camus
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
20
Hermann Hesse
The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)
The Myth of Sisyphus
21
Albert Camus
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Blindness
22
Jose Saramago
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
23
Voltaire
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
24
Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Jean-Paul Sartre)
No Exit and Three Other Plays
25
Jean-Paul Sartre
Good Omens (Terry Pratchett)
Good Omens
26
Terry Pratchett
The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
The New York Trilogy
27
Paul Auster
The Complete Stories (Franz Kafka)
The Complete Stories
28
Franz Kafka
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark (Charlie J. Eskew)
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
29
Charlie J. Eskew
The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
The Eyre Affair
30
Jasper Fforde
The Twelve Chairs (Ilya Ilf & Yevgeny Petrov)
The Twelve Chairs
31
Ilya Ilf & Yevgeny Petrov
Still Life With Woodpecker (Tom Robbins)
Still Life With Woodpecker
32
Tom Robbins
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brian)
The Third Policeman
33
Flann O'Brian
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
34
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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