Books That Get Weird (Fiction)

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Fruit Fly

Josh Silver

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Black Bag

Luke Kennard

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The End of Everything

M. John Harrison

“The End of Everything elucidates humanity's disintegrating existence with strange clarity.”
GuardianReview excerpt

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Dooneen

Keith Ridgway

“Lucid and affecting, appealingly labyrinthine.”
Michael Donkor "The GuardianReview excerpt

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Perverts

Mac (Marisa) Crane

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Fabulous Bodies

Chuck Tingle

An aspiring influencer who works as a grave robber must survive a dangerous delivery after the dead rock star she is transporting awakens.

Synopsis

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At the Edge of the Woods

Kathryn Bromwich, Gemma Dawson

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The Good Eye

Jess Gibson

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Cat Love

Tomás Q. Morín

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The Summer of the Serpent

Cecilia Eudave, Robin Myers

“Here, traditional logic is unreliable, death is an obsession, and the line between reality and the fantastic is porous.”
BooklistReview excerpt

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Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep

Paul Tremblay

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Agnes Lives!

Hallie Elizabeth Newton

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Green City Wars

Adrian Tchaikovsky

“[A] charmingly bizarre SF noir….Interstitial fiction at its most engaging and mind-bending.”
Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewReview excerpt

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The Children

Melissa Albert

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Sublimation

Isabel J. Kim

“A mind bending thriller about personhood, homeland nostalgia, global migration, and all forms of alienation.”
R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of YellowfacePublished endorsement

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The Husbands: A Read with Jenna Pick

Holly Gramazio

“Clever, fresh, inventive, The Husbands is wholly original.”
Louise O’Neill, author of Asking For ItPublished endorsement

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Through the Night Like a Snake

Sarah Coolidge, Mónica Ojeda

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The Women of Weird Tales

Greye La Spina, Everil Worrell

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Take Me with You

Steven Rowley

“If you’re lucky, you get to be old enough to complain about your knees.”
The New York TimesReview excerpt

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The Dream Hotel

Laila Lalami

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A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L Peck

After his death, Soren Johansson enters a vast library and must find the book containing his life story to escape Hell.

Synopsis

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Ghostroots

'Pemi Aguda

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Tantrum

Rachel Eve Moulton

“Such a fun horror novella that explores family duty and the darker side of motherhood.”
BuzzfeedPublished endorsement

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Root Rot

Saskia Nislow

“Dysfunctional family dynamics find a potent natural outlet in Nislow's eerie and lush body-horror debut.”
Publishers WeeklyReview excerpt

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Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

“Beagin establishes her place among artfully eccentric writers like Nell Zink, Elif Batuman, and Jennifer Egan.”
Kirkus ReviewsReview excerpt

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Same Bed Different Dreams

Ed Park

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The Disappointment

Scott Broker

“The Disappointment is a bravura tragicomedy if ever there was one.”
Shelf Awareness(starred review)Review excerpt

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Blackouts

Justin Torres

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Public Access Afterworld

Jane Schoenbrun

“Adroitly beautiful, funny, and scathing, Public Access Afterworld is a book from a talented storyteller with much to say, who’s not afraid to say it.”
SenLinYu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of AlchemisedPublished endorsement