Absurdist Comedy

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    • A Contrabandista's Quest for the Meaning of Life
    • By: A. C. Weisbecker
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • A. C. Weisbecker's rollicking novel of high times and hard times hilariously chronicles the adventures of a group of pot-smoking, number-crunching banditos-in-hiding....

    Regular price: $9.77

    • By: Kazuo Ishiguro
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • A gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control....

    Regular price: $20.20

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    • A Novel
    • By: Richard Brautigan
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • Trout Fishing in America is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's culture....

    Regular price: $12.86

    • A Novel
    • By: Jonas Karlsson
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Hilarious, profound, and achingly true to life, Jonas Karlsson's new novel explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of a hero you won't soon forget....

    Regular price: $16.00

    • By: Steven Wright
    • Narrated by: Steven Wright
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • Uniquely humorous and deeply profound, Harold documents the meandering, surreal, often hilarious, and always thought-provoking stream-of-consciousness ruminations of a 1960s third grader during a single day in class....

    Regular price: $14.99

    • By: Adam Cosco
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-25
    • Language: English
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    • Jonny Hollywood is living the dream. As the king of late-night television, his charm and charisma light up screens across America, masking a past ...

    Regular price: $9.99

    • By: Nathaniel Haselton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • "Bigfoot Buds" is a hilarious, heartwarming, and utterly absurd tale of friendship, cannabis, and the unexpected magic of rural life. When Hank '...

    Regular price: $7.99

    • By: Ivan Goncharov
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • A member of the landed gentry, with a seemingly guaranteed income from his estate in the country, Oblomov lives in Petersburg, uninterested in the business that provides his living and barely aware that the revenue is diminishing....

    Regular price: $18.30

    • A Novel
    • By: Jonas Jonasson
    • Narrated by: Peter Kenny
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what’s truly important in life....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • A Novel
    • By: Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Wilson-Broyles - translator
    • Narrated by: Peter Kenny
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In the fading days of late summer, 2011, self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse in a few weeks’ time—on September 21, at approximately 9:20 pm—ending the world as we know it....

    Regular price: $24.29

    • By: Yukio Mishima
    • Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • A Novel
    • By: Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel
    • Narrated by: Dave Barry, Mark Thompson, Sean Kenin, Orlagh Cassidy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • A Novel
    • By: Esther Yi
    • Narrated by: Greta Jung
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—Y/N is a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction....

    Regular price: $13.99

    • By: William Giraldi
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi's About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Nearly True Stories
    • By: Brett Gelman
    • Narrated by: Brett Gelman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny world of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible, where your worst fears of who you are or might become are always just around the corner....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • By: Italo Calvino
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Series: Our Ancestors
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • This witty novella, a picaresque gem brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood. Set in the time of Charlemagne and narrated by a nun with her own secrets to keep, The Nonexistent Knight tells the story of Agilulf, a gleaming white suit of armor with nothing inside it....

    Regular price: $11.17

    • By: Mark Haber
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • A darkly comic meditation on art, obsession, and the enigmatic power of friendship, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss stalks the museum halls of Europe, feverishly seeking salvation, annihilation, and the meaning of belief....

    Regular price: $11.17

    • By: Sean Penn
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Bob Honey, the disillusioned divorcee with a penchant for murder by mallet, weaves his way toward Washington DC, for the ultimate showdown with a certain nefarious "landlord", but nothing is as it seems, and Bob will have more than just the government working against him....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • A Novel
    • By: Jonathan Ames
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Ames
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety....

    Regular price: $24.50