I have a decent library filled with authors like Palahniuk, Ryu and Haruki Murakami, Vonnegut, P. K. Dick, and Thompson.

I’m looking for more modern/contemporary authors who share that absurdism, surrealism, and just plain weirdness.

  • alternategait@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I was just talking to a friend about Bunny by Mona Awad because it has a sequel We Love You, Bunny that was recently released.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    10 days ago

    Everything Thomas Pynchon!!!

    The Dart by Alice Oswald is mindblowing.

    László Krasznahorkai.

    Lydia Davis

    Experimental Fiction by Thalia Fields

    Ducks, Newburyport

  • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    10 days ago

    Thanks for this thread! It’s a little less absurd but my immediate thought was The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. Phenomenal read.

  • Corngood@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago
    • Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled

    I’ve read most of his books, but this was the most magical for me. Knowing nothing about it was important, and it gave me a feeling of unease almost from the beginning.

    • Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon

    Someone else mentioned Pynchon, and I absolutely loved this book. It’s huge and absurdly ambitious and I learned a lot about astronomy, but it’s also an all-time great bromance and there’s a talking dog.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 days ago

    You might give the scp wiki a go, not a book, but a collective fiction about a agency that keeps things ‘normal’, along with the stuff it contains. At least one of the of the authors there, qntm, has parlayed it into a few books.

  • iagomago@feddit.it
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    9 days ago

    Pynchon. Surreal, paranoid, extremely zany and hazy. Start with Inherent Vice or Lot 49.

  • FrederikNJS@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    10 days ago

    It’s probably a bet more comedic than the authors you listed, but Douglas Adams is quite absurd, surreal and incredibly funny. Particularly the “trilogy in five parts”; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

      • FrederikNJS@sopuli.xyz
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        10 days ago

        I suspect that also means you’ve already read it…

        In that case I would also recommend Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. It’s a fantasy setting, but still with plenty of absurdities, but it isn’t very surreal. Like Adams, Pratchett has a lot of humor, and the books are just a lot of fun. There’s a very nice graphic on the Wikipedia page which shows how all the books relate.

  • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    This is very much not my genre so I’m not sure my suggestion is valid; maybe others can chime in if I’m way off base. But this year I read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and it felt pretty surreal to me.

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 days ago

    Just finished John Scalzi’s The Moon Hits Your Eye, and quite liked it.

    Others I’ve loved include:

    Air by Geoff Ryman

    The Seep by Chana Porter

    How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

    Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide

    Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

  • pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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    10 days ago

    authors like Palahniuk, Ryu and Haruki Murakami, Vonnegut, P. K. Dick, and Thompson. I’m looking for more

    I would try fanfiction websites for authors of similar talent

    • the_radness@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 days ago

      That’s a novel idea, I’ll give you that. However, I’m not looking for more of the same, if you know what I mean.