Books like The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God
Short, strange, funny stories from Israel, among them the novella Kneller's Happy Campers, set in an afterlife for people who took their own lives.
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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.
Death and the Penguin
Viktor, a struggling writer in post-Soviet Kyiv who lives with a depressed penguin called Misha, is hired by a newspaper to write obituaries of people who are still alive.
Bliss
Harry Joy, an advertising man in an Australian city, is dead for nine minutes after a heart attack, and when he comes back he decides he is in Hell.
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.
The Elephant Vanishes
Seventeen early stories, from newlyweds who hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night to a housewife who has stopped sleeping altogether.
Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Bender's first collection of short, strange fables, among them a man whose lover is going through reverse evolution and a girl with a hand made of fire.
Bliss Montage
Eight surreal stories about women in flight from the past: one lives in a house with her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends, another takes a drug that makes her disappear.
Damned
Madison Spencer, the thirteen-year-old daughter of film stars, wakes up in Hell, which turns out to be run like a corrupt, bureaucratic high school, and sets out to make the best of it.
Pastoralia
Six stories set in dystopian theme parks and corporate hellscapes where dignity is the only luxury, and small acts of human decency are heroic.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Sixteen stories about lonely, awkward people reaching for one another in odd ways, among them a woman who teaches swimming lessons to elderly neighbours on her kitchen floor.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Saunders' debut collection of stories set in failing theme parks and corporate wastelands, including a Civil War park with real ghosts, established his mix of satire and heartbreak.