Suggest a weird/strange literary fiction book from 2022-2023
I’m looking for something pretty recent, and preferably a book that’s weird, strange, or odd in some way, specifically within the literary fiction genre.
Darryl by Jackie Ess, weird protagonist kind of horrible intimacy
Not recent but the weirdest thing I’ve read in a while is Yan Lianke’s the Day the Sun Died
Maybe something out of [Strange Light?](https://strangelight.com/) I think my suggestions are skewing pretty gay sorry
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[The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57224204) by Shehan Karunatilaka has elements of magical realism and Sri Lankan history. I picked it up since it won the 2022 Booker Prize and fell in love with the weird writing and plot.
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Lapvona
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This was written in 2017 or 2018 but *Spadework for a Palace* by Krasznahorkai was translated to English in 2022. The epigraph is “Reality is no obstacle”. It tells the story of a librarian named Herman Melvill who becomes obsessed with Herman Melville and gets progressively less realistic.
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Dead Girl Found
By: Giles Ekins
**Publisher’s summary**
When 19-year-old Julia Jarrett accuses her father, Donald, of abuse, their relatives and friends are outraged. The problem is, Julia died some months ago from a heroin overdose.
Her mother, Janet, is convinced that the accusing voice, heard during a spiritualist meeting, is that of her daughter. When Donald and Janet are both found dead, DCI Grace Swan is called in to investigate. But she has problems of her own; still grieving the sudden death of her partner and at odds with her superiors.
Dead Girl Found is a gripping murder mystery, told from alternating viewpoints. But which side holds the truth?
**This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18**.
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TJ Klune’s In the Lives Of Puppets. I’m only about a third of the way through it and it’s definitely weird/strange and I think literary fiction is a fair classification. I’m really enjoying it so far (reading it because his more famous The House in the Cerulean Sea is currently checked out of the local library).
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Chlorine by Jade Song, there’s also Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith though it’s from 2021, but it’s a great read.
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Darryl by Jackie Ess, weird protagonist kind of horrible intimacy
Not recent but the weirdest thing I’ve read in a while is Yan Lianke’s the Day the Sun Died
Maybe something out of [Strange Light?](https://strangelight.com/) I think my suggestions are skewing pretty gay sorry
[The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57224204) by Shehan Karunatilaka has elements of magical realism and Sri Lankan history. I picked it up since it won the 2022 Booker Prize and fell in love with the weird writing and plot.
Lapvona
This was written in 2017 or 2018 but *Spadework for a Palace* by Krasznahorkai was translated to English in 2022. The epigraph is “Reality is no obstacle”. It tells the story of a librarian named Herman Melvill who becomes obsessed with Herman Melville and gets progressively less realistic.
Dead Girl Found
By: Giles Ekins
**Publisher’s summary**
When 19-year-old Julia Jarrett accuses her father, Donald, of abuse, their relatives and friends are outraged. The problem is, Julia died some months ago from a heroin overdose.
Her mother, Janet, is convinced that the accusing voice, heard during a spiritualist meeting, is that of her daughter. When Donald and Janet are both found dead, DCI Grace Swan is called in to investigate. But she has problems of her own; still grieving the sudden death of her partner and at odds with her superiors.
Dead Girl Found is a gripping murder mystery, told from alternating viewpoints. But which side holds the truth?
**This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18**.
TJ Klune’s In the Lives Of Puppets. I’m only about a third of the way through it and it’s definitely weird/strange and I think literary fiction is a fair classification. I’m really enjoying it so far (reading it because his more famous The House in the Cerulean Sea is currently checked out of the local library).
Chlorine by Jade Song, there’s also Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith though it’s from 2021, but it’s a great read.