Category: Absurdist

Endling – Maria Reva

Posted on August 21, 2025 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Three women – a maverick biologist and two sisters embroiled in the Russian bride industry and searching for their missing mother – kidnap 13 hopeful bachelors and race across Ukraine trying to find a mate for a last-of-its-kind Lefty… Continue Reading “Endling – Maria Reva”

Category: Absurdist, Booker Prize, Literary fiction, Satire, War story

Bunny – Mona Awad

Posted on June 26, 2024 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Suzy Samantha Heather Mackey is a loner in her fiction writing class at Warren University. When she is befriended by a group of girls known as the bunnies she can’t help but be attracted to their Smut Salon clique, despite… Continue Reading “Bunny – Mona Awad”

Category: Absurdist, Horror, Literary fiction, Unreliable Narrator

The Metamorphosis & Other Stories – Franz Kafka

Posted on December 4, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to discover he has turned into a giant insect, in this 1915 novella. An establishing story in the existentialism genre. ⚈ “Gregor Samsa one day wakes to find he has turned into a dung… Continue Reading “The Metamorphosis & Other Stories – Franz Kafka”

Category: Absurdist, Classic literature, Existentialist, Literary fiction, Short Stories, Surreal, TranslatedTags:

The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro

Posted on October 30, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel Ryder, a famous pianist, arrives in a European city to perform a concert. However, he appears to have lost most of his memory and finds his new environment surreal and dreamlike. As both hero and anti-hero, he wades… Continue Reading “The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro”

Category: Absurdist, Experimental fiction, Literary fiction, Psychological, Surreal, UK author, Unreliable NarratorTags:

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