Weird Books For Weird People

This is one of my absolute all-time favorite books, I love it so much. I listened to it and would 100% recommend that if you like audiobooks. I don’t want to give too much away but I will say, if you don’t like gross things or descriptions of decomposing bodies, skip this one.

A father and son find three impossible corpses buried in their own backyard, and what follows is them trying to get to the bottom of this strange mystery.

Gabriel’s house and health are deteriorating around him, and his skin starts peeling off in sheets. We’re taken on a surreal journey as he finds mutating manuscripts in his parents home, that are different every time he reads them.

Strange things and people start showing up, possibly from the odd novels he’s been finding, and he is determined to make sense of these hauntings.

This was really weird and I’m not even entirely sure I know what happened, but I really enjoy it.

Marcos’s wife left him. His father’s dementia is getting worse. And he just tries not to think too much about how he makes a living. It just happened so quickly.

One day it was reported that animal meat was poisonous to humans thanks to an infectious virus. Then the government started the Transition making it legal to eat human meat, Special Meat.

One day he is given a special treat: a live specimen of the finest quality. He knows personal contact is forbidden but he starts to treat her like a human being and becomes tortured by what has been lost and may be saved.

I originally gave this four stars, but I think about this book so much that I just had to go change it to five. I love this one, it’s so weird.

The woman puts her art career on hold to stay home and raise their son while her husband travels for work. But one more toddler bed time might make her lose her mine.

Coincidentally, she starts to think she may be turning into a dog, finding odd hair growing on her neck, craving raw meat, noticing sharper canine teeth, as she begins to find a new voice deep within herself.

A tornado warning lands a family trapped in their bathroom on the verge of self-destruction as things spiral out of control.

This is slightly less weird than a lot of the other books, maybe weird in a more mundane way? I really liked it but definitely understand why people might not.

At 40 years old, her life seems to be perfect, everything you could hope for. And after 15 years together, she is just as obsessed with her husband as ever, but she’s not sure if the feelings are reciprocated.

She meticulously keeps things perfect to be sure he loves her as much as always, but one day she realizes she may have gone too far.

It’s just another day at LitenVärld, the Swedish furniture store, when an elderly woman vanishes into a portal to another dimension.

It’s up to Jules and Ava, two minimum wage employees and exes, to track her down and protect the company’s bottom line. They face carnivorous furniture and a deep resentment between them.

This tells the unexpected tale of Keiko Furukura, a 36-year-old Tokyo resident who never fit in with her family or at school. Instead, she discovers peace at Smile Mart. Following store rules from the manual, she mimics colleagues to play the part of a ‘normal’ person for eighteen years. While she’s content, pressure mounts from family and coworkers to find a husband and pursue a ‘real’ career, pushing Keiko to desperate measures

This one is weird. Very weird, and quite dark. I would definitely check content warnings on this, I don’t want to mention them all here but child SA is probably the biggest one.

And I feel like if you’ve read the synopsis or any of the blurbs on it, you should just throw that out the window because it nothing like those. Like, they’re the most misleading descriptions of a book I’ve ever seen.

I honestly don’t even know how to describe this one without giving a lot away, but the vague idea of Natuski thinking she’s an alien is more prominent in the second half but it’s weird. It’s one of those books I feel like I can’t say I liked but also I loved it?

Ella Minnow Pea lives on the made-up island of Nollop near South Carolina. The place was named after Nevin Nollop, who penned sentence with all twenty-six letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

But now, Ella’s on a mission to stop the island’s Council from a totalitarian takeover. As letters fall from Nollop’s memorial statue, they also vanish from the story and life on Nollop.

I actually think this one is good to go into blind so I’m not going to give a description for it, but you can find that on Amazon or Goodreads. I will say it’s very weird, but he writing is so good, like so, so good

This is a silly weird horror not dark serious horror and I really enjoyed it for that.

A young family just moved into their newly built home in an unfinished development when they start to notice cracks forming, both in the home and their lives.

But when the husband finds a mysterious DIY channel online, he can fix all of the problems. He starts to change, though, after hearing dark subliminal suggestions. Home improvement, insecurities, and haunted houses collide in this book.

This is the one I haven’t read yet but am very excited for and will hopefully get to sooner than later.

A woman is fleeing her father in the ICU and her husband’s worsening illness when she shows up at a Best Western in the California high desert.

On a nearby hike, she finds a cactus that does not belong in southern California. But there it is, with a gash on the side that beckons like a door, so in she goes on a desolate, hilarious, and poignant journey.