Highly Entertaining & Unusual Fiction
Discover a captivating collection of highly entertaining and unusual fiction books. Explore unique stories that defy conventions and keep you hooked from start to finish.
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The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily …
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Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
When Lionel's friend is killed, he is forced to delve into the complex, shadowy web of relationships, threats, and favors that make up the Brooklyn …
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The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
In a small town in Texas there is a sheriff's deputy named Lou Ford, a man so dull that he lives in cliches, so good-natured …
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
50th Anniversary Edition • With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle …
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Complicity
by Iain Banks
A judge who was lenient with a rapist is himself brutally raped. A pornographer who specialized in snuff films is given a paralyzing injection that …
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Welcome to the Monkey House
by Kurt Vonnegut
“[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each …
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God Knows
by Joseph Heller
As the Biblical David lies on his death-bed he looks back on his own, crowded life and tells all.
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The Streetbird
by Janwillem van de Wetering
The ninth Amsterdam Cops mystery Sergeant de Gier spots a vulture at the scene of a murder in Amsterdam’s red light district. The victim, a …
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Amnesia Moon
by Jonathan Lethem
The much-anticipated second novel from the author of Gun, with Occasional Music. Since the war and the bombs, Hatfork, Wyoming, is a broken-down, mutant-ridden town. …
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The Blond Baboon
by Janwillem van de Wetering
While in the neighborhood investigating a pet poisoner, Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police are called to the home of a wealthy, middle-aged …
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times …
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Tales of the Weirrd [sic]
by Ralph Steadman
Genuine weirdness is a rare quality. To be truly weird demands character and wanton disregard for the social mores of the day. Unleashed in Tales …
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Run With the Hunted
by Charles Bukowski
The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes …
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As She Climbed Across the Table
by Jonathan Lethem
Anna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing …
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The Detective Is Dead
by Bill James
The three murderers of drug baron Kenward Knapp are after Keith Vine, now an informant for Chief Detective Superintendent Colin Harpur, who wants to send …
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The First Inspector Morse Omnibus
by Colin Dexter
Chief Inspector Morse is firmly established as the world's most popular fictional detective. This omnibus contains three murder mysteries - The Dead of Jericho, Service …
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Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett
Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and …
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The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching …
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
First published in 1865, these endearing tales of an imaginative child's dream world by Lewis Carroll, pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, are written with …
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The Sandman
by Neil Gaiman
A collection of eight comics that introduce the series' lead character, the Sandman, Lord of Dreams.
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Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke
Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, …
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Whit
by Iain Banks
A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, …