20 Strange And Weird Books You Must Read | FAVBOOKSHELF

20 Strange And Weird Books You Must Read - Favbookshelf

I love reading books where there is something different about the story or the characters are full-on bizarre and quirky. When we read these books, we come across plots, characters, or storytelling styles that are strange, unusual and weird, but in a good way.

Here are 20 wonderfully weird, strange, and unusual books that make you feel all sorts of things but are totally worth reading.


20 Strange And Weird Books You Must Read - Favbookshelf
20 Strange And Weird Books You Must Read – Favbookshelf

#1 Beatlebone by Kevin Barry


Beatlebone by Kevin Barry- best weird books
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry

About the book

Title: Beatlebone

Author: Kevin Barry

Publisher: Doubleday

Pages: 299

Goodreads Ratings: 3.47/5

It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he had bought eleven years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his parents’ memories, he sets off to calm his unquiet soul in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.

Beatlebone is a tour de force of language and literary imagination that marries the most improbable elements to the most striking effect. It is a book that only Kevin Barry would attempt, let alone succeed in pulling off—a Hibernian high-wire act of courage, nerve, and great beauty.

Why do we recommend this?

If you are a Beatles fan or heard their name, this book is highly recommended, and more people should know about their stories.

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#2 Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland


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Girlfriend in a Coma by
Douglas Coupland

About the book

Title: Girlfriend in a Coma

Author: Douglas Coupland

Publisher: ReganBooks

Pages: 288

Goodreads Ratings: 3.62/5

“What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me?”

It’s 15th December 1979, and Richard’s girlfriend Karen has entered a deep coma. She only took a couple of valium washed down with a cocktail, but now she’s locked away in suspended animation, oblivious to the passage of time. What if she were to wake up decades later—a 17-year-old girl in a distant future, a future where the world has gone dark?

Why do we recommend this?

I recommend this book for its message and the ability of the writer to write awkwardly and sympathetically. If you like this combination, you should read this book.

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#3 Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link


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Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link

About the book

Title: Stranger Things Happen

Author: Kelly Link

Publisher: Small Beer Press

Pages: 266

Goodreads Ratings: 3.83/5

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into a new, strange, and wonderful territory.

A detective girl must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear.

Why do we recommend this?

It has eleven extraordinary stories that are quirky, spooky, and smart. And all have happy endings. The best part is that every story contains a secret prize, and it feels like each story was written especially for you.

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#4 Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie


Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie
Imaginary Homelands by
Salman Rushdie

About the book

Title: Imaginary Homelands

Author: Salman Rushdie

Publisher: Odyssey Editions

Pages: 448

Goodreads Ratings: 3.98/5

In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie presents ten years’ worth of concentrated thought on topics from India, Europe, and America’s most cherished literary traditions and authors to the politics of oppression, the joy of film and television, and the enduring value of the imagination.

Writing with lively and intelligent insight—from the provocative to the humorous to the deeply profound—Rushdie demonstrates why he is celebrated as one of our greatest literary minds.

Why do we recommend this?

This book has essay collection that takes you back to Rushdie’s heroic efforts to speak out in favor of freedom of speech, secularism, atheism, multiculturalism, artistic integrity, and literary and intellectual sophistication.

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#5 A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin


A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
A Game of Thrones by
George R. R. Martin

About the book

Title: A Game of Thrones

Author: George R.R. Martin

Publisher: Bantam

Pages: 835

Goodreads Ratings: 4.44/5

A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear.

Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of Thrones.

Why do we recommend this?

This book is a magnificent start to a seminal epic fantasy series. So, if you loved watching the first season of Game of Thrones and want to know more, you’ll most likely love reading A Game of Thrones, as this book covers all of it.

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#6 A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness


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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

About the book

Title: A Monster Calls

Author: Patrick Ness

Publisher: Walker Books

Pages: 237

Goodreads Ratings: 4.35/5

This bestselling novel is about love, loss and hope from the two-time Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has had the same dream every night ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don’t quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there’s a visitor at his window. It’s ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.

Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd. He weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief, healing and, above all, the courage it takes to survive.

Why do we recommend this?

When you read this beautiful book with a gripping story, you will feel like this is one of those books that will stay with you long after you’ve read it.

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#7 Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis


Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Masters of Atlantis by
Charles Portis

About the book

Title: Masters of Atlantis

Author: Charles Portis

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Pages: 248

Goodreads Ratings: 3.75/5

In 1917 France, Lamar Jimmerson finds a little book of Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, alchemical metaphors, and the Codex Pappus, said to be the sacred Gnomonic text. He expands the noble brotherhood, survives scandalous schism, bids for governor of Indiana, and sees Gnomons gather in an East Texas mobile home. This is an America of misfits and con men, oddballs and innocents.

Why do we recommend this?

This book is so hilarious from start to finish; sheer entertainment of the highest order—a wildly eccentric satire that never lets up and never lets down, and you should read this.

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#8 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)


If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)

About the book

Title: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Author: Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)

Publisher: Vintage Classics

Pages: 260

Goodreads Ratings: 4.04/5

Italo Calvino’s masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book’s central character. Based on a witty analogy between the reader’s desire to finish the story and the lover’s desire to consummate their passion, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, of course, are constantly and comically frustrated.

In between chasing missing chapters of the book, the hapless readers tangle with an international conspiracy, a rogue translator, an elusive novelist, a disintegrating publishing house, and several oppressive governments. The result is a literary labyrinth of storylines that interrupt one another—an Arabian Nights of the postmodern age.

Why do we recommend this?

I highly recommend this book as it’s one of those books which stands alone and shines like the sun. There is nothing quite like it. It’s one of a kind; unique.

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#9 The Weirdness by Jeremy P. Bushnell


The Weirdness by Jeremy P. Bushnell
The Weirdness by
Jeremy P. Bushnell

About the book

Title: The Weirdness

Author: Jeremy P. Bushnell

Publisher: Melville House

Pages: 288

Goodreads Ratings: 3.56/5

At thirty, Billy Ridgeway still hasn’t gotten around to becoming a writer; he thinks too much to get anything done except making sandwiches at a Greek deli with his buddy Anil. But the Devil shows up with fancy coffee one morning, promising to make Billy’s dream of being published come true: as long as Billy steals The Neko of Infinite Equilibrium, a cat-shaped statue with magical powers, from the most powerful warlock in the Eastern United States.

The Devil’s bidding sends Billy on a wild chase through New York City, through which Billy discovers his own strength, harnessing his powers as a hell-wolf and finally fighting the warlock face-to-face. God even makes a guest appearance, and He’s not who you thought He was.

Bushnell’s stunningly imaginative debut is about finding meaning in life, confronting your biggest critics, and discovering that a boring life might be the best life of all.

Why do we recommend this?

I find this book wonderfully quirky, weird and, well, just plain fabulously odd and plenty of witty dialogue. This book is one of the most unique stories I have ever read, so it undoubtedly made it into this list of best weird books.

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#10 Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food by Benjamin R. Cohen


Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food by Benjamin R. Cohen
Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food by Benjamin R. Cohen

About the book

Title: Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food

Author: Benjamin R. Cohen

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Pages: 320

Goodreads Ratings: 4.67/5

In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to today: How could you tell the food you bought was the food you thought you bought? Could something manufactured still be pure? Is it okay to manipulate nature far enough to produce new foods but not so far that you question its safety and health? How do you know where the line is? And who decides?

Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades to provide a captivating window into the origins of manufactured foods and the perceived problems they wrought. Cohen follows farmers, manufacturers, grocers, hucksters, homemakers, politicians, and scientific analysts as they struggled to demarcate and patrol the ever-contingent, always-contested border between purity and adulteration, and as, at the end of the nineteenth century, the very notion of a pure food changed.

Why do we recommend this?

If you want to know the difference between acceptable and unacceptable practices that remain central to daily decisions about the foods we eat, how we produce them, and what choices we make when buying them, then you should read this book.

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#11 Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen


Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

About the book

Title: Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Author: Anne Helen Petersen

Publisher: Mariner Books

Pages: 304

Goodreads Ratings: 3.95/5

Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you’re too exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt, or feel like you work all the time, or feel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into a monetisable hustle? Welcome to burnout culture.

While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era, in Can’t Even, BuzzFeed culture writer and former academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation, born out of distrust in the institutions that have failed us, the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace, and a sharp uptick in anxiety and hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure to “perform” our lives online.

The genesis for the book is Petersen’s viral BuzzFeed article on the topic, which has amassed over eight million reads since its publication in January 2019.

Why do we recommend this?

This book offers a galvanising, intimate, and ultimately redemptive look at the lives of this much-maligned generation. It should be required reading for both millennials, and their parents and employers trying to understand them.

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#12 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick


The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

About the book

Title: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Author: Brian Selznick

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Pages: 534

Goodreads Ratings: 4.22/5

Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy.

A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo’s dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.

Why do we recommend this?

It is a genuinely fantastic children’s book. It’s filled with everyday wonder and magic, which makes you wish it will never end, and the illustrations are also so unique.

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#13 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami


1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

About the book

Title: 1Q84

Author: Haruki Murakami

Publisher: Knopf

Pages: 925

Goodreads Ratings: 3.93/5

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realises, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84—“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.”

Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unravelled.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s 19841Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

Why do we recommend this?

You can’t make a list of quirky and imaginatively weird books and not include 1Q84. This book is absolutely, magnificently beyond beautiful and, above all, a love story, and an unbelievably hopeful one at that. Because in 1Q84, true love exists, and it matters; it makes a difference.

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#14 Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy


Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy
Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy

About the book

Title: Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History

Author: Cody Cassidy

Publisher: Penguin Books

Pages: 240

Goodreads Ratings: 3.87/5

Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire—and most critically, who was the first to brave the slimy, pale oyster?

In this book, writer Cody Cassidy digs deep into the latest research to uncover the untold stories of some of these incredible innovators (or participants in lucky accidents).

With a sharp sense of humour and boundless enthusiasm for the wonders of our ancient ancestors, Who Ate the First Oyster? profiles the perpetrators of prehistory’s greatest firsts and catastrophes, using individuals’ lives to provide a glimpse into ancient cultures, show how and why these critical developments occurred, and educate us on a period of time that, until recently, we’ve known almost nothing about.

Why do we recommend this?

This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.

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#15 “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel


"The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two by
Studs Terkel

About the book

Title: “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two

Author: Studs Terkel

Publisher: Pantheon

Pages: 589

Goodreads Ratings: 4.29/5

“As in Hard Times and Working, this master interviewer again creates a turbulent epic of human experience by quoting the words of those who lived it… A vivid resurrection of a lost time.”—Newsday.

Studs Terkel, the noted Chicago-based journalist, gathers the reminiscences of 121 participants in World War II (called “the good war” because, in the words of one soldier, “to see fascism defeated, nothing better could have happened to a human being”). These participants, men and women, famous and ordinary, tell stories that add immeasurably to our understanding of that cataclysmic time.

One Soviet soldier recounts that, surrounded by the Germans, his comrades tapped the powder from their last cartridges and inserted notes to their families inside the casings; Russian children, he goes on, still turn these up every now and again and deliver the notes to the soldiers’ families. Terkel touches on many themes along the way, including institutionalised racism in the United States military, the birth of the military-industrial complex, and the origins of the Cold War.

Why do we recommend this?

This was a really readable history of different aspects of World War Two, covering the European and Pacific theatres through interviews with participants and eyewitnesses.

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#16 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks


World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

About the book

Title: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Author: Max Brooks

Publisher: Crown

Pages: 342

Goodreads Ratings: 4.02/5

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, travelled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.

He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

Why do we recommend this?

This book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the reader’s part.

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#17 Geek Love by Katherine Dunn


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Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

About the book

Title: Geek Love

Author: Katherine Dunn

Publisher: Random House Vintage

Pages: 348

Goodreads Ratings: 3.96/5

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose maternal and paternal families set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities.

There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan; Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins; albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. The Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry.

Why do we recommend this?

Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.

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#18 The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins


The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

About the book

Title: The Library at Mount Char

Author: Scott Hawkins

Publisher: Crown

Pages: 390

Goodreads Ratings: 4.09/5

Carolyn’s not so different from the other human beings around her. She’s sure of it. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone, and even remembers what clothes are for. After all, she was a normal American herself, once. That was a long time ago, of course—before the time she calls “adoption day,” when she and a dozen other children found themselves being raised by a man they learned to call Father.

Father could do strange things. He could call light from darkness. Sometimes he raised the dead. And when he was disobeyed, the consequences were terrible. In the years since Father took her in, Carolyn hasn’t gotten out much. Instead, she and her adopted siblings have been raised according to Father’s ancient Pelapi customs. They studied the books in his library and learned some of the secrets behind his equally ancient power. Sometimes, they’ve wondered if their cruel tutor might secretly be God.

Now, Father is missing. And if God truly is dead, the only thing that matters is who will inherit his library—and with it, power over all of creation. As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come, fierce competitors for this prize align against her. But Carolyn can win. She’s sure of it. What she doesn’t realise is that her victory may come at an unacceptable price—because in becoming a God, she’s forgotten a great deal about being human.

Why do we recommend this?

This book has great characters, especially the despicable ones. The whole concept of whether they were Gods or not was fascinating. The plot was just complex and wonderful. Just go read it!

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#19 The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator)


The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator)
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator)

About the book

Title: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Author: Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator)

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Pages: 407

Goodreads Ratings: 4.28/5

“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen and a half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest,” says the narrator of Walter Moers’s epic adventure. “What about the Minipirates? What about the Hobgoblins, the Spiderwitch, the Babbling Billows, the Troglotroll, the Mountain Maggot… Mine is a tale of mortal danger and eternal love, of hair’s breadth, last-minute escapes.”

Welcome to the fantastic world of Zamonia, populated by all manner of extraordinary characters. It’s a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed, turned on its head, and lavishly illustrated by the author.

Why do we recommend this?

The writing style is phenomenal, the pictures are fun, and the layout is different and not too distracting, which is simple to read.

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#20 Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes (translator), Mary Warnock (contributor), Richard Eyre (contributor)


Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes (translator), Mary Warnock (contributor), Richard Eyre (contributor)
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes (translator), Mary Warnock (contributor), Richard Eyre (contributor)

About the book

Title: Being and Nothingness

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes (translator), Mary Warnock (contributor), Richard Eyre (contributor)

Publisher: Routledge

Pages: 688

Goodreads Ratings: 3.98/5

Being and Nothingness is undoubtedly one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th century. The central work by one of the century’s most influential thinkers altered the course of Western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual’s relationship with the world.

Known as ‘the Bible of existentialism’, its impact on culture and literature was immediate and was felt worldwide, from the absurdist drama of Samuel Beckett to the soul-searching cries of the Beat poets. Being and Nothingness is one of those rare books whose influence has affected the mindset of subsequent generations. 

Why do we recommend this?

Its message remains as potent as ever—challenging readers to confront the fundamental dilemmas of human freedom, choice, responsibility & action.

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So, these are our recommendations for some of the best strange and weird books you must read. Do tell us which book is your favourite and most weird and unusual, and how many books you have already read.


Summing up, here’s the list of our favourite weird and unusual books.

1Beatlebone by Kevin BarryBuy now
2Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas CouplandBuy now
3Stranger Things Happen by Kelly LinkBuy now
4Imaginary Homelands by Salman RushdieBuy now
5A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinBuy now
6A Monster Calls by Patrick NessBuy now
7Masters of Atlantis by Charles PortisBuy now
8If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)Buy now
9The Weirdness by Jeremy P. BushnellBuy now
10Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food by Benjamin R. CohenBuy now
11Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen PetersenBuy now
12The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian SelznickBuy now
131Q84 by Haruki MurakamiBuy now
14Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody CassidyBuy now
15“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs TerkelBuy now
16World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max BrooksBuy now
17Geek Love by Katherine DunnBuy now
18The Library at Mount Char by Scott HawkinsBuy now
19The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator)Buy now
20Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes (translator)Buy now
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