Basically books where the metaphors and real moments are mixed together, you could be reading a part that sounds like a metaphor but suddenly realise oh this is actually happening in the story. As an example, The Passion by Jeanette Winterson has many moments like this, one moment a woman is asking a man to steal her heart, you'd think that is supposed to be in a idiomatic way, but then no he has to actually go into her house and steal her physical heart and it just leaves you thinking how is this happening. I want to try more books like that
by Lesbihun
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Jon McGregor’s books are often very surreal with parts in stream-of-consciousness.
Martin Macinnes writes very, very surreal books. His most recent book, In Ascension, has been very well reviewed and nominated for the Booker Prize. I did not enjoy Infinite Ground at all (just not my style) but I think you would like it from what you say.
It’s non-fiction, but Demon Camp by Jennifer Percy has a bit of this running through it. It’s about veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who understand their PTSD as demon possession and go to these camps to be exorcised. Jennifer Percy joins them for a bit and by the end, she’s questioning reality and so are you.
Bunny by Mona Awad
Mister Magic by Kristen White
Piranesi
Life of Pi
Nightwood
A short read but The Yellow Wallpaper. Also Virginia Woolf plays around with this idea a bit in some of her novels like The Waves and To The Lighthouse.