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 281 ratings
    • On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned....

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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: 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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    • 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 795 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 62 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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    • 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 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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    • 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 163 ratings
    • An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery....

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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 213 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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    • 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 1,980 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Vigdis Hjorth
    • Narrated by: Nano Nagle
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • A controversial best seller from one of Norway’s most intelligent and highly-regarded novelists, Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory, as well as a furious account of a woman’s struggle to survive and be believed....

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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 557 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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    • 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: 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 252 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: 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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