Absurdist Fiction

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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 255 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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    • By: Aoko Matsuda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services - from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime....

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    • Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy
    • By: Michael Foley
    • Narrated by: John O'Mahony
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Michael Foley examines the elusive condition of happiness common to philosophy, spiritual teachings and contemporary psychology, then shows how these are becoming increasingly difficult to apply....

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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 38 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: 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 3 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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    • 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 259 ratings
    • On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned....

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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 216 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: Anne de Marcken
    • Narrated by: Jessica Preddy
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.

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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 153 ratings
    • An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery....

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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 224 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: 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 211 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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    • Stories
    • By: Izumi Suzuki
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina....

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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 out of 5 stars 50 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: 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 241 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....

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    • By: Alexander Boldizar
    • Narrated by: Tony Beltran
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future. Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet, causing another man to die in his place.

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    • 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 538 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....

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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 86 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: Lina Wolff, Frank Perry - translator
    • Narrated by: Krys Janae
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early 20s and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood....

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    • By: J. D. Wilkes
    • Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as "The Deadening", where vampire cults roam wild and time is immaterial....

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