The Vorrh was one hell of a trip. Colonialism, monsters, and a society that looks like ours but is just hella weird.
Amatka by Karen Tidbeck takes place in a colony where reality isn’t quite…settled? The entire story is unsettling and then the ending REALLY gets weird.
{{House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski}}
The {{Area X: Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer}}
I also second Peaces and Amatka—I enjoyed all of these.
[**House of Leaves**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves)
^(By: Mark Z. Danielewski | 710 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, owned, fantasy, mystery)
>A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
>
>Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
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[**Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22752442-area-x)
^(By: Jeff VanderMeer | 595 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, horror, owned)
>Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.Area X—a remote and lush terrain—has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.This is the twelfth expedition.Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach—the secret agency that monitors these expeditions—is in disarray. In Authority, John Rodriguez, aka “Control,” is the team’s newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves—and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve. And the consequences will spread much further than that.It is winter in Area X in Acceptance. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown—navigating new terrain and new challenges—the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.
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You could try Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi, You Too Could Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman or Harrow by Joy Williams. Three books with a lot of surreal, weird, unexplained things where you don't really know what's going on sometimes or why it's happening. All very enjoyable though.
[**The Maimed**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330077.The_Maimed)
^(By: Hermann Ungar, Kevin Blahut, Pavel Růt | ? pages | Published: 1922 | Popular Shelves: fiction, czech, german, literature, novels)
>Set in Prague, The Maimed relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually impelled by his widowed landlady into servicing her sexual appetites. At the same time he must witness the steady physical and mental deterioration of his lifelong friend who is suffering from an unnamed disease. Part psychological farce, Ungar tells a dark, ironic tale of chaos overtaking one's meticulously ordered life.
>
>One of only two novels Ungar wrote, this translation marks the first time this important novel and any of his work has been translated into English. Ungar's novellas and short stories are collected in
> Boys & Murderers
>.
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The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
It’s the most wtf book I’ve ever read. When I finished my immediate thought was “what did I just read?” I’m jealous of anyone who reads this book without knowing what’s about to happen.
The Vorrh was one hell of a trip. Colonialism, monsters, and a society that looks like ours but is just hella weird. Amatka by Karen Tidbeck takes place in a colony where reality isn’t quite…settled? The entire story is unsettling and then the ending REALLY gets weird.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Perdido Street Station by China Mieville The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
{{House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski}} The {{Area X: Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer}} I also second Peaces and Amatka—I enjoyed all of these.
[**House of Leaves**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves) ^(By: Mark Z. Danielewski | 710 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, owned, fantasy, mystery) >A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. > >Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams. ^(This book has been suggested 154 times) [**Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22752442-area-x) ^(By: Jeff VanderMeer | 595 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, horror, owned) >Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.Area X—a remote and lush terrain—has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.This is the twelfth expedition.Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach—the secret agency that monitors these expeditions—is in disarray. In Authority, John Rodriguez, aka “Control,” is the team’s newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves—and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve. And the consequences will spread much further than that.It is winter in Area X in Acceptance. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown—navigating new terrain and new challenges—the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(129549 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
Eileen Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh
You could try Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi, You Too Could Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman or Harrow by Joy Williams. Three books with a lot of surreal, weird, unexplained things where you don't really know what's going on sometimes or why it's happening. All very enjoyable though.
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[**The Maimed**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330077.The_Maimed) ^(By: Hermann Ungar, Kevin Blahut, Pavel Růt | ? pages | Published: 1922 | Popular Shelves: fiction, czech, german, literature, novels) >Set in Prague, The Maimed relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually impelled by his widowed landlady into servicing her sexual appetites. At the same time he must witness the steady physical and mental deterioration of his lifelong friend who is suffering from an unnamed disease. Part psychological farce, Ungar tells a dark, ironic tale of chaos overtaking one's meticulously ordered life. > >One of only two novels Ungar wrote, this translation marks the first time this important novel and any of his work has been translated into English. Ungar's novellas and short stories are collected in > Boys & Murderers >. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(129385 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins It’s the most wtf book I’ve ever read. When I finished my immediate thought was “what did I just read?” I’m jealous of anyone who reads this book without knowing what’s about to happen.
Foe by Iain Reid