Absurdist Fiction

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    • By: Franz Kafka
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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

    • 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....

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    • By: Miguel de Cervantes
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-06
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 793 ratings
    • FonoLibro, el líder en audiolibros en español, celebra los 400 años de la obra mas importante y universal de nuestra lengua Las Aventuras del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha....

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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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    • Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
    • By: Italo Calvino
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Series: Our Ancestors
    • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures.....

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    • By: Jaroslav Kalfar
    • Narrated by: Jot Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • 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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    • 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....

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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....

    Regular price: $16.00

    • A Novel
    • By: Peter Mendelsund
    • Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-25
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A surrealist story of mourning and messiahs, deserts and droughts, cowboys and junkies, miracles and mass hysteria, the lure of despair and the solace of friendship. Peter Mendelsund's Weepers is a novel for this age: our age of anesthesia and anger.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Eley Williams
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jon Glover
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom....

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    • By: Megan Milks
    • Narrated by: Megan Milks
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting from the walls....

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    • Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
    • By: Randall Munroe
    • Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,974 ratings
    • For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach....

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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 '...

    Regular price: $7.99

    • By: Miguel de Cervantes
    • Narrated by: Eladio Ramos, Jesús Ramos
    • Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-17
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • Tras saber que el Turco baja por la costa con una peligrosa armada, Don Alonso Quijano, el caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, saldrá, una vez más....

    Regular price: $38.00

    • By: Vladimir Nabokov
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 555 ratings
    • A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life....

    Regular price: $17.95