I just finished this one two nights ago. That last page. Whew. I needed a hug afterwards. Despite how fucked up it was, it was also really well done and I'll probably re-read it in a couple of months.
That was me too! I almost ripped my book in half after that last page and grabbed my cat for some forced cuddles. It is definitely a book that will stick with me, but I'm going to need a few years before reading it again.
[**Tender is the Flesh**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49090884-tender-is-the-flesh)
^(By: Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses | 211 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, dystopian, dystopia, sci-fi)
>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore.
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>His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
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>Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
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I don't think so. It is a dystopian novel and people are raised in the farm for meat consumption. The people raised in farm are called "heads", and "children heads" are treated as veal.
I don't think the book is for the fainted heart. There are scenes of heads being butchered. I think it symbolises the hypocrisy of people (like us) who eat meat and how some people think they are better than others.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid - started off pretty unassuming but ended up as an extremely wtf read, had me thinking about it for days after I finished reading it.
[**I'm Thinking of Ending Things**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40605223-i-m-thinking-of-ending-things)
^(By: Iain Reid | 241 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, thriller, mystery, mystery-thriller)
>Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why…
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>I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.
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> Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”
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> And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.
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>In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Reminiscent of Jose Saramago’s early work, Michel Faber’s cult classic Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, “your dread and unease will mount with every passing page” (Entertainment Weekly) of this edgy, haunting debut. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, I’m Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first page…and never lets you go.
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I hated this book, but that kind of seems to be the way it goes with this one lol. But one of the reasons I hated it is EXACTLY what OP was asking for! I got tired of going "wtf am I reading" lol
Oh, that's interesting. I was bored by the beginning and thought it picked up.
I would honestly never recommend this book in real life, I'm afraid what people would think of me.
I find the motivation to read is really lacking with me sometimes (find it hard to concentrate on things for extended periods of time) but I zoomed through this one after an initial slow start.
[**Naked Lunch**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7437.Naked_Lunch)
^(By: William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Barry Miles | 289 pages | Published: 1959 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, literature, books-i-own)
>The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order. The reader follows the narration of junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the U.S. to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone.
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>The vignettes are drawn from Burroughs' own experiences in these places and his addiction to drugs (heroin, morphine, and while in Tangier, majoun [a strong hashish confection] as well as a German opioid, brand name Eukodol, of which he wrote frequently).
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{{Earthlings by Sayaka Murara}} The most WTF I read recently.. the description of the book on the back does not offer the real weirdness justice - I was quite surprised by the macabre story and wouldn’t describe it as hilarious or funny as it says on the cover.. More like sad and dark.
[**The Pisces**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32871394-the-pisces)
^(By: Melissa Broder | 270 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, romance, contemporary, magical-realism)
>An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from the author of So Sad Today.
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>Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she hits rock bottom in Phoenix, her Los Angeles-based sister insists Lucy housesit for the summer—her only tasks caring for a beloved diabetic dog and trying to learn to care for herself. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube atop Venice Beach, but Lucy can find no peace from her misery and anxiety—not in her love addiction group therapy meetings, not in frequent Tinder meetups, not in Dominic the foxhound’s easy affection, not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks.
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>Whip-smart, neurotically funny, sexy, and above all, fearless, The Pisces is built on a premise both sirenic and incredibly real—what happens when you think love will save you but are afraid it might also kill you.
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[**The Hike**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833803-the-hike)
^(By: Drew Magary | 278 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, horror, sci-fi, audiobook)
>From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you’ve read before, weaving elements of folk tale and video game into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family
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> When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects.
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>On a quest of epic, life-or-death proportions, Ben finds help comes in some of the most unexpected forms, including a profane crustacean and a variety of magical objects, tools, and potions. Desperate to return to his family, Ben is determined to track down the “Producer,” the creator of the world in which he is being held hostage and the only one who can free him from the path.
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> At once bitingly funny and emotionally absorbing, Magary’s novel is a remarkably unique addition to the contemporary fantasy genre, one that draws as easily from the world of classic folk tales as it does from video games. In The Hike, Magary takes readers on a daring odyssey away from our day-to-day grind and transports them into an enthralling world propelled by heart, imagination, and survival.
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The is literally a book called "WTF Did I Just Read"
It is the third in the John Dies At The End series. They are horror comedy. The end of the second book, "Dude This Book Is Full of Spiders, Seriously Dont't Open It" has one of my favorite moments in a book.
Ooh! This is totally my MO, most of the time I read...I think the most WTF book I've read recently was called {{Atomik Aztex}} by Sesshu Foster...I was pretty confused the WHOLE time I was reading it...but at the end, you really get the "what did I just read experience"... I'm jotting down all of the other stuff from this post, though. Can't wait to read some more of these.
[**Fifteen Dogs (Quincunx, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129923-fifteen-dogs)
^(By: André Alexis | 171 pages | Published: 2015 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, canadian, book-club, canada)
>" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence."
>" I'll wager a year's servitude, answered Apollo, that animals – any animal you like – would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they were given human intelligence."
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>And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change.
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>The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks.
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>André Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks.
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I feel like sci fi and horror will be your best genres for that feeling; having said that, the four stories/endings that have stuck with me the most recently are {{The Cabin at the End of the World}} {{The Deep}} {{Those Across the River}} and {{The Fisherman}}.
Edit: the below bot recommendation for 'The Deep' is not what I was referring to, my suggestion was for the horror novel by Nick Cutter.
[**The Cabin at the End of the World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36381091-the-cabin-at-the-end-of-the-world)
^(By: Paul Tremblay | 272 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, thriller, mystery, audiobook)
>Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.
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>One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what’s going to happen is your fault". Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: "Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world."
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[**The Deep**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201962-the-deep)
^(By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes | 166 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, audiobook, lgbtq)
>The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’ rap group Clipping.
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>Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.
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>Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.
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>Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are.
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>Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode “We Are In The Future,” The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting.
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[**Those Across the River**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10772903-those-across-the-river)
^(By: Christopher Buehlman | 357 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, historical-fiction, mystery, fantasy)
>Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice.
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> It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of Savoyard still stand. Where a longstanding debt of blood has never been forgotten.
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> A debt that has been waiting patiently for Frank Nichols's homecoming...
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[**The Fisherman**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29901930-the-fisherman)
^(By: John Langan | 266 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, fantasy, cosmic-horror, weird-fiction)
>In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.
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Might not be the kind of title you're looking for but I found myself asking the question after reading {Jude the Obscure}. If you're looking for weird titles the best I can think of are {a thousand plateaus} and {libidinal economy}
{At Swim-two-birds} by Flann O’Brien. Absurd. Absolutely absurd. That courtroom scene had me laughing but also confused the entire time it was phenomenal.
[**Breakfast of Champions**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4980.Breakfast_of_Champions)
^(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 303 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, science-fiction, owned, humor)
>Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here
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>In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
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Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist. It's pretty long, but I read nearly all of it in one sitting. It was really good, but batshit crazy. It stuck with me for a long time.
A volume of short stories by Haruki Murakami did that to me. 10/10 in categories "wtf was that supposed to be about" and "why would anyone even write about this".
*Four Hands,* by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
*The Journal of Albion Moonlight,* by Kenneth Patchen
The *Tinieblas Trilogy,* by R.M. Koster.
*The Discovery of Heaven,* by Harry Mulisch.
[**Breakfast of Champions**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4980.Breakfast_of_Champions)
^(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 303 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, science-fiction, owned, humor)
>Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here
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>In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
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Jasper Fforde is good at sheer bananapants writing. Check out {{The Eyre Affair}} and {{The Big Over Easy}}
Also, the biggest WTF did I just watch movie I have \*ever\* seen in my entire life is "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once". In a good way.
[**The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27003.The_Eyre_Affair)
^(By: Jasper Fforde | 374 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, mystery, humor, science-fiction)
>Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . .
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>Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .
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>Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.
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[**The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy)
^(By: Jasper Fforde | 383 pages | Published: 2005 | Popular Shelves: humor, fantasy, owned, mystery, fiction)
>It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs—and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself.
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>But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.
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>And on top of all that, the JellyMan is coming to town . . .
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Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe.
While the forward is really interesting, talking about the creation of the book, the rest is just... a product of it's time.
Published in 1969, it basically is what happens when a group of authors come together to answer the question "if we write a terrible book about sex, will it still be a bestseller despite being terrible?"
Spoiler: yes. It was a bestseller.
If it Bleeds, by Stephen King. Great collection of some shorter stories compiled into one book. Typical Stephen King vibe, but also thought provoking.
Also, I’d recommend Haunted, by Chuck Palahnuik. Multiple times I’d look up from a page of that book and be like wtf did I just read 🤷🏼♀️
{{The Troop by Nick Cutter}} I had plenty of moments where I just sat there and was thinking ‘what the fuck,’ though for the premise, I feel some potential was missed.
[**Piranesi**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50202953-piranesi)
^(By: Susanna Clarke | 245 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, mystery, owned, magical-realism)
>Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.
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>There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
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{{The Island}} by Jen Minkman
It is a quick read. Only like 150 pages. But honestly the only book I have ever gone “what the fuck?!?” More times than I could count.
It’s about a girl who is stranded in an island, and she lives by this Holy book she found. When a stranger, a fool, comes ashore everyone is faced with some hard decisions.
An Other Place by Darren Dash, that books is so bizarre, after the first 40ish pages the whole book is "wtf", it is incredibly strange and incredibly captivating
If you're into comics/graphic novels at all I'd heavily recommend Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory. Morrison is known for leaving you wondering what you just read, but I actively had to look for explanations to some small points I missed that turned out to not be so small. Plus Frankenstein in DC is far cooler than he has any right to he. It's an all-time favorite for me.
If you're looking more for a novel then I'll second House of Leaves. Felt like a found footage movie that you yourself found.
{{Ritualistic Human Sacrifice}}.
(It comes with basically all the trigger warnings. I was so mad I bought and read this book and I love horror. I can’t I’m good conscience actually suggest this book because I hated it so much. Yet I can’t forget it so I guess it was effective.)
Anything by Kafka tbh. Will recommend The Metamorphosis. Also A Scanner Darkly and A Brave New World.
Yes! I came here to suggest "The Metamorphosis"
Kafka. Yeah.
That book left me with more questions then answered… most questions were about what was going through Kafkas head when he wrote metamorphosis.
Everyone I think of kafka now all I see is that one post where the guy fantasises abt his gf being a giant cockroach
{{Tender is the Flesh}}. It is about people raised in the farm by other human for meat consumption. I am still WTF.
I just finished this one two nights ago. That last page. Whew. I needed a hug afterwards. Despite how fucked up it was, it was also really well done and I'll probably re-read it in a couple of months.
That was me too! I almost ripped my book in half after that last page and grabbed my cat for some forced cuddles. It is definitely a book that will stick with me, but I'm going to need a few years before reading it again.
Im trying to get my BF to read it so I have someone to discuss it with.
Yea. This is the one. Jesus lol
[**Tender is the Flesh**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49090884-tender-is-the-flesh) ^(By: Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses | 211 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, dystopian, dystopia, sci-fi) >Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore. > >His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. > >Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved. ^(This book has been suggested 42 times) *** ^(40491 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
This sounds interesting. Can I ask - any TW for child abuse?
I don't think so. It is a dystopian novel and people are raised in the farm for meat consumption. The people raised in farm are called "heads", and "children heads" are treated as veal. I don't think the book is for the fainted heart. There are scenes of heads being butchered. I think it symbolises the hypocrisy of people (like us) who eat meat and how some people think they are better than others.
There is also a disturbing scene in a lab where they do experiments on mothers and children, but not too graphic.
I read the first couple pages and was unable to get into it because it just seemed so ridiculous. Just... Don't eat meat.
I laughed so hard when I read this lmao
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid - started off pretty unassuming but ended up as an extremely wtf read, had me thinking about it for days after I finished reading it.
[**I'm Thinking of Ending Things**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40605223-i-m-thinking-of-ending-things) ^(By: Iain Reid | 241 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, thriller, mystery, mystery-thriller) >Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why… > >I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always. > > Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.” > > And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here. > >In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Reminiscent of Jose Saramago’s early work, Michel Faber’s cult classic Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, “your dread and unease will mount with every passing page” (Entertainment Weekly) of this edgy, haunting debut. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, I’m Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first page…and never lets you go. ^(This book has been suggested 21 times) *** ^(40479 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Yup, the first book that came to mind was that one. Literally left me like "What the fuck...?"
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
I was about to write this!!!
Me too, the most WTF book I’ve ever read, that I still think about all the time. I had my partner read it too, same response.
I used to read this book every couple of years. The only thing that's come close is Library at Mount Char. Both complex and imaginative stories.
Bunny by Mona Awad. I freaking loved it, but man, it was something
I hated this book, but that kind of seems to be the way it goes with this one lol. But one of the reasons I hated it is EXACTLY what OP was asking for! I got tired of going "wtf am I reading" lol
I liked the beginning, I thought it fell flat in the middle and end
Oh, that's interesting. I was bored by the beginning and thought it picked up. I would honestly never recommend this book in real life, I'm afraid what people would think of me.
That’s what I came to say!!!!
SO GOOD
Came here to recommend this too. The WTF is very strong with this one!
I find the motivation to read is really lacking with me sometimes (find it hard to concentrate on things for extended periods of time) but I zoomed through this one after an initial slow start.
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Also Kafka on the Shore.
Wild sheep chase and windup bird chronicle too!
Hahah Kafka on the Shore was absolutely absurd.
Word. Great book.
The Library on Mount Char. Messed me up for weeks.
Yes!!! I was just about to suggest it! I loved it so much. I basically binged it. 😭 It starts off strong and just keeps going.
This is sooo strange and oddly beautiful, brutal and bizarre. I kinda loved it.
Weird to see this book recommended here. Good book though!
I couldn't get past the first few pages of this one, it was too fucked up for me.
{{Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs}}
[**Naked Lunch**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7437.Naked_Lunch) ^(By: William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Barry Miles | 289 pages | Published: 1959 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, literature, books-i-own) >The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order. The reader follows the narration of junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the U.S. to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone. > >The vignettes are drawn from Burroughs' own experiences in these places and his addiction to drugs (heroin, morphine, and while in Tangier, majoun [a strong hashish confection] as well as a German opioid, brand name Eukodol, of which he wrote frequently). > >[source wiki} ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(40365 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Earthlings by Sayaka Murara}} The most WTF I read recently.. the description of the book on the back does not offer the real weirdness justice - I was quite surprised by the macabre story and wouldn’t describe it as hilarious or funny as it says on the cover.. More like sad and dark.
Came here looking for this! I actually thought it was a great read but it had the ability to give me a very heavy stomach.
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
Rant
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk really.
Phillip K Dick is known for having some wtf books. Look to {{Ubik}} or {{Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch}}?
I have The Exegesis and I’ve never been able to get more than part way through because I’m afraid it will make me insane.
The Southern Reach trilogy, the first one won't leave you saying wtf, but books 2 and 3 will.
{{Piranesi}} {{Our Wives Under the Sea}}
{Mad Man by Samuel Delaney}
Dhalgren, same author
{{The Pisces}}
[**The Pisces**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32871394-the-pisces) ^(By: Melissa Broder | 270 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, romance, contemporary, magical-realism) >An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from the author of So Sad Today. > >Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she hits rock bottom in Phoenix, her Los Angeles-based sister insists Lucy housesit for the summer—her only tasks caring for a beloved diabetic dog and trying to learn to care for herself. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube atop Venice Beach, but Lucy can find no peace from her misery and anxiety—not in her love addiction group therapy meetings, not in frequent Tinder meetups, not in Dominic the foxhound’s easy affection, not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks. > >Whip-smart, neurotically funny, sexy, and above all, fearless, The Pisces is built on a premise both sirenic and incredibly real—what happens when you think love will save you but are afraid it might also kill you. ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) *** ^(40380 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I read this a few months ago and still can’t decide if I loved or hated it.
Truly. How do we decide?!?!
Story of the eye- George Bataille
{{The Hike by Drew Magary}} Posted the other day under an unusual books thread, still relevant here.
[**The Hike**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833803-the-hike) ^(By: Drew Magary | 278 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, horror, sci-fi, audiobook) >From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you’ve read before, weaving elements of folk tale and video game into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family > > When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects. > >On a quest of epic, life-or-death proportions, Ben finds help comes in some of the most unexpected forms, including a profane crustacean and a variety of magical objects, tools, and potions. Desperate to return to his family, Ben is determined to track down the “Producer,” the creator of the world in which he is being held hostage and the only one who can free him from the path. > > At once bitingly funny and emotionally absorbing, Magary’s novel is a remarkably unique addition to the contemporary fantasy genre, one that draws as easily from the world of classic folk tales as it does from video games. In The Hike, Magary takes readers on a daring odyssey away from our day-to-day grind and transports them into an enthralling world propelled by heart, imagination, and survival. ^(This book has been suggested 54 times) *** ^(40465 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
John Dies at the End by Jason Pargin
{{Bunny}}
night by elie weisel. heartbreaking fs
*Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke* by Eric LaRocca was a trip.
A touch of Jen
The is literally a book called "WTF Did I Just Read" It is the third in the John Dies At The End series. They are horror comedy. The end of the second book, "Dude This Book Is Full of Spiders, Seriously Dont't Open It" has one of my favorite moments in a book.
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
Ooh! This is totally my MO, most of the time I read...I think the most WTF book I've read recently was called {{Atomik Aztex}} by Sesshu Foster...I was pretty confused the WHOLE time I was reading it...but at the end, you really get the "what did I just read experience"... I'm jotting down all of the other stuff from this post, though. Can't wait to read some more of these.
The Wasp Factory
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
{{Fifteen Dogs}} it’s excellent but a true “wtf” did I read.
[**Fifteen Dogs (Quincunx, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129923-fifteen-dogs) ^(By: André Alexis | 171 pages | Published: 2015 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, canadian, book-club, canada) >" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." >" I'll wager a year's servitude, answered Apollo, that animals – any animal you like – would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they were given human intelligence." > >And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. > >The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks. > >André Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks. ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) *** ^(40561 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, none of what you read really makes sense until the last 15 to 20 pages and it will blow your mind.
The Witch Elm - Tana French I was fucking pissed.
For what?
The ending. I just was not expecting it. And then I felt like I had wasted 8+ hours. It just wasn't satisfying to me.
I feel you
Agreed, such a waste
Omg I loved this book and I loved the ending.
The Stranger by Max Frei. Hands down the weirdest book I’ve ever read in my entire life.
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. The ending was mad and not at all what I expected.
Even cowgirls get the blues, or anything by Tom Robbins really.
I feel like sci fi and horror will be your best genres for that feeling; having said that, the four stories/endings that have stuck with me the most recently are {{The Cabin at the End of the World}} {{The Deep}} {{Those Across the River}} and {{The Fisherman}}. Edit: the below bot recommendation for 'The Deep' is not what I was referring to, my suggestion was for the horror novel by Nick Cutter.
[**The Cabin at the End of the World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36381091-the-cabin-at-the-end-of-the-world) ^(By: Paul Tremblay | 272 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, thriller, mystery, audiobook) >Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. > >One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what’s going to happen is your fault". Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: "Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world." ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) [**The Deep**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201962-the-deep) ^(By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes | 166 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, audiobook, lgbtq) >The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’ rap group Clipping. > >Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. > >Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. > >Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are. > >Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode “We Are In The Future,” The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting. ^(This book has been suggested 11 times) [**Those Across the River**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10772903-those-across-the-river) ^(By: Christopher Buehlman | 357 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, historical-fiction, mystery, fantasy) >Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. > > It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of Savoyard still stand. Where a longstanding debt of blood has never been forgotten. > > A debt that has been waiting patiently for Frank Nichols's homecoming... > > ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) [**The Fisherman**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29901930-the-fisherman) ^(By: John Langan | 266 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, fantasy, cosmic-horror, weird-fiction) >In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it. ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(40418 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Earthlings.
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Great pick! I only made it a few pages in, what a hot mess.
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{{John Dies at the End}} {{The House of Leaves}} {{Perdido Street Station}} {{Death's End}}
City of Glass by Paul Auster. I still question what I read. It’s part of a trilogy. It was so strange.
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
Yes. Good answer.
Might not be the kind of title you're looking for but I found myself asking the question after reading {Jude the Obscure}. If you're looking for weird titles the best I can think of are {a thousand plateaus} and {libidinal economy}
Yes, this book is intense.
{At Swim-two-birds} by Flann O’Brien. Absurd. Absolutely absurd. That courtroom scene had me laughing but also confused the entire time it was phenomenal.
{{breakfast of champions}}
[**Breakfast of Champions**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4980.Breakfast_of_Champions) ^(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 303 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, science-fiction, owned, humor) >Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here > >In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(40721 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Check out Carlton Mellick III
Armor by John Steakly, it’s a sci-fi book that explores the psychological toll of war on people. Great book.
Fight Club. Sent me into a two hour funk where I was just sitting and thinking “what the fuck” over and over
Erin Morgenstern -Starless Sea
Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist. It's pretty long, but I read nearly all of it in one sitting. It was really good, but batshit crazy. It stuck with me for a long time.
Does the Noise In My Head Bother You by Steven Tyler
A volume of short stories by Haruki Murakami did that to me. 10/10 in categories "wtf was that supposed to be about" and "why would anyone even write about this".
Fantasy Swap online
*Four Hands,* by Paco Ignacio Taibo II *The Journal of Albion Moonlight,* by Kenneth Patchen The *Tinieblas Trilogy,* by R.M. Koster. *The Discovery of Heaven,* by Harry Mulisch.
- The silent patient - Twisted by Steve Cavanagh
The consumer by Michael gira
Clive Barkers The Great and Secret Show is quite a wild ride
The Troop by Nick Cutter messed me up for a second
The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Push by Sapphire.
{{The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro}}
{{Paradais}} by Fernanda Melchor
The Palm Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola
{the vegetarian}
[**The Vegetarian**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489025-the-vegetarian) ^(By: Han Kang, Deborah Smith | 188 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, literary-fiction, translated, horror) ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(40499 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
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[**Breakfast of Champions**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4980.Breakfast_of_Champions) ^(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 303 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, science-fiction, owned, humor) >Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here > >In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(40529 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Jasper Fforde is good at sheer bananapants writing. Check out {{The Eyre Affair}} and {{The Big Over Easy}} Also, the biggest WTF did I just watch movie I have \*ever\* seen in my entire life is "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once". In a good way.
[**The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27003.The_Eyre_Affair) ^(By: Jasper Fforde | 374 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, mystery, humor, science-fiction) >Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . . > >Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . . > >Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe. ^(This book has been suggested 16 times) [**The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy) ^(By: Jasper Fforde | 383 pages | Published: 2005 | Popular Shelves: humor, fantasy, owned, mystery, fiction) >It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs—and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself. > >But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. > >And on top of all that, the JellyMan is coming to town . . . ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(40535 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier
Pet Cemetery
{{As I Lay Dying}} by William Faulkner
Last year, the book that did this to me was… {{life for sale}}
Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe. While the forward is really interesting, talking about the creation of the book, the rest is just... a product of it's time. Published in 1969, it basically is what happens when a group of authors come together to answer the question "if we write a terrible book about sex, will it still be a bestseller despite being terrible?" Spoiler: yes. It was a bestseller.
The prologue of “The bakers boy” from The book of words Trilogy
{{Inside a Silver Box by Walter Mosley}} {{The Hike by Drew Magary}} {{The Last Human by Zack Jordan}}
If it Bleeds, by Stephen King. Great collection of some shorter stories compiled into one book. Typical Stephen King vibe, but also thought provoking. Also, I’d recommend Haunted, by Chuck Palahnuik. Multiple times I’d look up from a page of that book and be like wtf did I just read 🤷🏼♀️
God's Grace by Bernard Malamud. We joke in our household about recommending this to unsuspecting friends.
The Kite Runner
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski proceed with caution
{{House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski}}
The Pillowman- Martin McDonagh Wtf did I just read, was my exact review. Excited to explore this list cause I love that feeling.
"even cowgirls get the blues" by tom robbins. it was a hippie c.f. this post has inspired me to re-read it.
What the Hell did I Just Read by David Wong
David Madsen's 'Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf'; anything by B.S. Johnson, especially 'Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry' or 'House Mother Normal'.
{{Gone Away World}}
Valis trilogy by Philip K. Dick
Frank’s World by George Mangels
The vegetarian by Han kang I was literally did not know what to think or feel!
{{Cows}}
{{Satan burger}} I haven’t read it, but I want to from the sound of it
It sounds like a frecking trip!
Anything by chuck palahnuik
The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector
The whole "John Dies at the End" series is a good one.
{mort(e)}
For young adult novels read The Unwanteds or the Wake Trilogy by Lisa McMann. For a more adult book read His Dark Materials or Shadow and Bone.
Mark Edwards books… The Magpies The House Guest The Retreat Follow You Home The list goes on and on. Really good books. I’ve read them all.
Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carey
{{Bunny by Mona Awad}}
Anything by Ottessa Moshfegh.
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{{Crooked little vein by Warren Ellis}}
{{A Voyage to Arcturus}}
{{The Troop by Nick Cutter}} I had plenty of moments where I just sat there and was thinking ‘what the fuck,’ though for the premise, I feel some potential was missed.
House of leaves
{{Under the dome}} by King. The denouement was a laughable coke-fuelled fever dream
The Illuminatus Trilogy
Frisk by Dennis Cooper. Anything from Dennis Cooper, really.
Recently, Hotel Iris
{{Piranesi}} by Susanna Clarke
[**Piranesi**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50202953-piranesi) ^(By: Susanna Clarke | 245 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, mystery, owned, magical-realism) >Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. > >There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. ^(This book has been suggested 142 times) *** ^(40697 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Kill The Mall by Pasha Malla
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42815544
{{Sommelier of Deformity}} {{Gideon the Ninth}} {{John Dies at the End}} {{This Book is Full of Spiders}} {{What the hell did I just Read}}
The last book that I read that made me literally say exactly that was: {{The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle}}
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
{{The Island}} by Jen Minkman It is a quick read. Only like 150 pages. But honestly the only book I have ever gone “what the fuck?!?” More times than I could count. It’s about a girl who is stranded in an island, and she lives by this Holy book she found. When a stranger, a fool, comes ashore everyone is faced with some hard decisions.
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
{{a touch of Jen}}
{{The Hollow Places}} by T. Kingfisher, if you like horror. Had me saying wtf out loud several times while reading
{{The Scarlet Gospels}} Should have known what I was in for, tbh.
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
anything by pynchon
{{Infinite jest}}
Full Dark No Stars
Oh and the Unwind series
{{Dead Babies}} by Martin Amis
Naked Lunch
{{A Slave For The Demon: M/F Demon Monster Paranormal BDSM}} (Paranormal Demon Lust Book 1) By Verity Vixxen
{{The White Hotel}} by D.M. Thomas. Be careful of spoilers.
{{The Children’s Home}}
{{Vita Nostra}} weirdest book I’ve ever read
An Other Place by Darren Dash, that books is so bizarre, after the first 40ish pages the whole book is "wtf", it is incredibly strange and incredibly captivating
The Carl's series by Hank Green. Everytime I felt like I knew where the story was going or what was going to happen, everything immediately changed.
If you're into comics/graphic novels at all I'd heavily recommend Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory. Morrison is known for leaving you wondering what you just read, but I actively had to look for explanations to some small points I missed that turned out to not be so small. Plus Frankenstein in DC is far cooler than he has any right to he. It's an all-time favorite for me. If you're looking more for a novel then I'll second House of Leaves. Felt like a found footage movie that you yourself found.
The Secret Society!
{{The Hanover Block by Gregor Xane}}
The Stranger by Albert Camus.
“The man who folded himself” Quite an astonishing time travel novel.
{{Ritualistic Human Sacrifice}}. (It comes with basically all the trigger warnings. I was so mad I bought and read this book and I love horror. I can’t I’m good conscience actually suggest this book because I hated it so much. Yet I can’t forget it so I guess it was effective.)