Books like Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
A stockbroker is woken at 4 AM by a phone call and must navigate a surreal night of psychics, homeless prophets, and the stock market's metaphysical underpinnings.
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Still Life with Woodpecker
Princess Leigh-Cheri, an exiled royal and environmentalist, falls for Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an outlaw bomber known as the Woodpecker, in a love story built out of dynamite, pyramids, a pack of Camels and the moon.
Another Roadside Attraction
A countercultural couple runs a hot dog stand and a flea circus, until the mummified body of Christ shows up in their basement.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
Trout Fishing in America
A series of short, odd pieces in which the phrase 'Trout Fishing in America' becomes a person, a hotel, a place and a way of life, Brautigan's gentle, sideways picture of the country in the 1960s.
Under the Glacier
A young emissary from the bishop is sent to a remote parish beneath Snæfellsjökull, where the pastor no longer holds services and strange guests gather for something no one will explain.
Treasure Island!!!
A directionless young woman who works at a pet-lending store reads Treasure Island and resolves to live by its core values of boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing, which goes badly for everyone around her, parrot included.
Exalted
In Los Angeles, Emily runs an astrology meme account that charges people to read their charts, and Dawn is one of her most devoted followers, as both women's lives, relationships and finances near collapse.
Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout meets his creator in a Holiday Inn bar, and the meeting becomes a reckoning with free will, American madness, and the author's own despair.
The Broom of the System
A Cleveland switchboard operator searches for her great-grandmother, who has vanished from a nursing home with several other residents, while her boss courts her and her cockatiel starts preaching.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A slothful, brilliant, hot-dog-cart-pushing medievalist wages war against modern New Orleans in one of literature's great comic antiheroes.
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An eleven-year-old boy on Long Island, starting from a school trip to the stock exchange and working from a pay phone, builds a vast paper empire, told almost entirely in unattributed dialogue.