Absurdist
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Muscle Man
$27.00 Add to cartA hilarious, suspenseful metaphysical thriller following a day in the life of an English professor who would rather be lifting weights from the author of the cult hit The Novelist
Harold, a middling- Author: Castro, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222776
- Language: English
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Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed obj… [more below]
- Author: Chung, Bora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 164375663X
- Language: English
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Blob: A Love Story
$26.99 Add to cart“There is so much at play in this wondrous novel. Vi, struggling to place herself in any context that makes sense within the world, earnestly leads us into a wild experiment, to turn a blob into the m
- Author: Su, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063358646
- Language: English
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How the Dead Dream
$16.95 Read moreA young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who’s been d… [more below]
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767900
- Language: English
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Harold
$17.99 Add to cartA uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school.
Steven Wright is one of the most signi- Author: Wright, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1668022702
- Language: English
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The Dog of the North
$18.00 Add to cart* Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * Nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction *
“I’m in love with … [more below]- Author: McKenzie, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593300718
- Language: English
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Mouth
$13.99 Add to cartScreenwriter Joshua Hull (Glorious) makes his longform prose debut!
After a stranger leaves him a secluded property, drifter Rusty finds himself the caretaker of a massive, tooth-filled mouth in the gr
- Author: Hull, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1959790021
- Language: English
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Mood Swings
$26.00 Read more“Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an ‘internet novel.’ But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transc… [more below]
- Author: Barnet, Frankie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602596
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Grip
$17.99 Add to cartWickedly dark with a mystical edge, this story of an Italian love affair gone bad captures the irresistible pull of toxic relationships–from the acclaimed author of Carnality.
A woman arrives in Flor- Author: Wolff, Lina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1635424208
- Language: English
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The Prophet and the Idiot
$19.99 Add to cartObsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio set off on a globetrotting road-trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of T
- Author: Jonasson, Jonas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063371669
- Language: English
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Lunacy: A Maximalist Nightmare
$15.99 Add to cartA father tries his best to unburden his daughter. A doctor risks it all to have a major scientific breakthrough. Fast food workers excel at the food prep routine. A pack of werewolves unleashes a dest
- Author: Garguilo, Jorin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: June 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992430202
- Language: English
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Nadja
$16.95 Add to cartA new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surreal… [more below]
- Author: Breton, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379368
- Language: English
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Life a User’s Manual
$24.95 Add to cart“One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov.”–Boston Globe
Structured around- Author: Perec, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 661
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928285
- Language: English
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Mood Swings
$17.00 Add to cart“Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an ‘internet novel.’ But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transc… [more below]
- Author: Barnet, Frankie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603126
- Language: English
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Endling
$28.00 Add to cartIn the absurdist literary tradition of George Saunders and Percival Everett comes a brilliant debut about a biologist in Ukraine battling to save the country’s snail species from the brink of extincti… [more below]
- Author: Reva, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0385545312
- Language: English
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Vanishing World
$28.00 Add to cartFrom 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
- Author: Murata, Sayaka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164668
- Language: English
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True Failure
$18.00 Add to cartA twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories.
Ben just lost his job, but he won’t fess up to his wife Tara. Instead, while he cl- Author: Higley, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1566897130
- Language: English
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Tartufo
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Hollow Kingdom, a fantastically funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever in this “delicious… [more below]
- Author: Buxton, Kira Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1538770814
- Language: English
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The Castle: Introduction by Irving Howe
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of … [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679417354
- Language: English
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Berg
$17.95 Read more‘A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father . . .’
So begins Ann Quin’s madcap frolic with sinister undertones, a debut ‘so staggeringly superi
- Author: Quin, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1911508547
- Language: English
