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And Now for Something Completely Different
Unusual Fiction
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November 2001
Compiled by Ellen Olson,
of Rockford (IL) Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Alpert, Catherine Rocket City
Ashford, Daisy The Young visiters
Bakis, Kirsten Lives of the Monster Dogs
Boxer, Sara In the Floyd Archives; A Psycho-Bestiary
Crace, Jim Being Dead
Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves
Dunn, Mark Ella Minnow Pea
Eggars, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Fforde, Jasper The Eyre Affair
Garcia, Eric Anonymous Rex
Gardam, Jane Queen of the Tambourine
Green, George Dawes Caveman's Valentine
Hodgson, Barbara Hippolyte's Island
Howard, Maureen Natural History
Hudson, Virginia Cary Oh Ye Jigs & Juleps
Irving, John The Fourth Hand
Kidd, Chip The Cheese Monkeys
Kluge, Steve Last Days of Summer
Lafferty, R.A. Okla Hannali
Lethem, Jonathan Motherless Brooklyn, Gun with Occasional Music
Nabokov, Vladimir Pale Fire
Payne, C.D. Frisco Pigeon Mambo
Peric, Georges A Void
Ray, Rebecca Pure
Robbins, Tom Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Russell, Mary Doria The Sparrow
Ryman, Geoff 253
Spencer, William Browning Zod Wallop
Suskind, Patrick Perfume
Thompson, Jim The Killer Inside Me
Wallace, Daniel Ray in Reverse
Walker, Stephen Danny Yates Must Die
Welsh, Irving Maribou Stork
Just about ANYTHING by the following authors would qualify as unusual for many readers:
Kathy Acker
Jean Gene
HP Lovecraft
Alfred Jarry
Harry Crewsbr>
Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
Angela Carter
Marquis De Sade
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Boris Vian
Mervyn Peake
Raymond Queneau
Thomas de Quincey
Gertrude Stein
Terry Southern
Jim Thompson
Hunter S Thompson
Thomas Pynchon
Edgar Allan Poe
Dorothy Parker
Patrick McGrath
Sheridan LeFanu
Jack Kerouac
William Burroughs
Charles Bukowski
Andre Breton
Louis Aragon
Richard Braughtigan
Ambrose Bierce
Samuel Beckett
Georges Bataille
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