Absurdist Comedy

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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....

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    • 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....

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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....

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    • 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 280 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....

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    • 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....

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    • 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 64 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....

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    • 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....

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    • 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 86 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....

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    • 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....

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    • 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 292 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....

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    • 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 '...

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    • By: Marc Horn
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-25
    • Language: English
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    • Al Getty is a dedicated private investigator on the hunt for cheating partners. Ethan Notes is an obsessive stalker fixated on a beautiful woman. ...

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    • 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....

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    • 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 91 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....

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    • By: Adam Cosco
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • 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 ...

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    • By: Stefano Benni
    • Narrated by: Luca Dal Fabbro
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-21
    • Language: Italian
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Tutto può accadere nel bar sotto il mare. Un bar in cui tutti vorremmo capitare, una notte, per ascoltare i racconti del barista, dell'uomo col cappello, dell'uomo con la gardenia, della sirena, del marinaio, dell'uomo invisibile, della vamp e degli altri misteriosi avventori. Sompazzo...

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    • A Novel
    • By: Frankie Barnet
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who’s promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means.

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