Absurdist

  • Vanishing World

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    From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couple

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    • Author: Murata, Sayaka
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 14 2026
    • ISBN10: 0802167527
    • Language: English
  • Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories

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    These newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at a time.

    Before Thomas Bernhard became one of the most provocative voices in modern lit

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    • Series: German List
    • Author: Bernhard, Thomas
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: January 02 2026
    • ISBN10: 1803095458
    • Language: English
  • Five

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    Five , selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by “the Duchamp of Latin America” (Natasha Wimmer), brings together–each an astonishing work–Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical B

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    • Author: Aira, César
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: June 30 2026
    • ISBN10: 0811232360
    • Language: English
  • Smash & Grab

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    “A Canadian master of the form.”–Gregory Cowles, New York Times

    A former military policeman, a veterinarian, and a French poet walk into a bar and debate the Vietnam war. A couple of men who are part

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    • Author: Jarman, Mark Anthony
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 1771966947
    • Language: English
  • Dean’s List

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    A sharp, satirical romp through the absurdities of academia, where ambition knows no bounds and rankings rule all.

    When Charles Ogden Dean III-better known (to his chagrin) as “Dean Dean”-takes charge

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    • Author: Orey, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 338
    • Publish Date: March 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798901741184
    • Language: English
  • Chasing Homer

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    In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed–careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist

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    • Author: Krasznahorkai, László
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 0811240908
    • Language: English
  • 200 Monas

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    For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother’s surprise stash of rare pills, or[more below]

    • Author: Saenz, Jan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 472
    • Publish Date: March 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 031660772X
    • Language: English
  • A Void

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    Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation

    A mind-bending and mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User’s Manual.

    A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, ch

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    • Author: Perec, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1567928226
    • Language: English
  • Hexes of the Deadwood Forest

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    An explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through [more below]

    • Author: Szpila, Agnieszka
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 07 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593700899
    • Language: English
  • Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

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    A darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell.

    And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?…

    I would say I was Dan Moran, a Ko

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    • Author: Cottrell, Patrick
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 21 2026
    • ISBN10: 0063435063
    • Language: English
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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    Original, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wonderland…. [more below]

    • Series: Signature Gilded Editions
    • Author: Carroll, Lewis
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: September 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1454961554
    • Language: English
  • Woo Woo

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    A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance

    Woo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual ar

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    • Author: Baxter, Ella
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1646223047
    • Language: English
  • Blob: A Love Story

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    • Author: Su, Maggie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 27 2026
    • ISBN10: 0063358670
    • Language: English
  • 200 Monas

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    For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July-and the darker edge of Breaking Bad and Uncut Gems-comes a whip-smart, irresistible debut novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her re[more below]

    • Author: Saenz, Jan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 0316595888
    • Language: English
  • The Copywriter

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    A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work.

    It’s the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up,

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    • Author: Poppick, Daniel
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 1668090007
    • Language: English
  • When the Museum Is Closed

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    A quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a Void

    Rika Horauchi’s new part-time

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    • Author: Yagi, Emi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 27 2026
    • ISBN10: 1593768273
    • Language: English
  • One, None, and a Hundred Grand

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    A hilarious exploration of the relativism of identity from Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    This uproarious new translation of One, None,

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    • Author: Pirandello, Luigi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: October 28 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962770346
    • Language: English
  • The Hitch

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    “A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice.”–New York Times

    From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the

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    • Author: Levine, Sara
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: January 13 2026
    • ISBN10: 0802165923
    • Language: English
  • Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming

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    Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron B?la Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. … [more below]

    • Author: Krasznahorkai, László
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: September 24 2019
    • ISBN10: 0811226646
    • Language: English
  • The Bovadium Fragments: Together with the Origins of Bovadium

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    The first-ever publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an

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    • Author: Tolkien, J. R. R.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 0063479087
    • Language: English
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