Books like The Third Policeman
A young man who has spent his inheritance on the works of de Selby, a crackpot philosopher, helps plan a robbery to pay for his commentary on him, and finds himself in a strange parish whose policemen are obsessed with bicycles.
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At Swim-Two-Birds
A lazy Dublin student lies in bed writing a novel about Dermot Trellis, a novelist who makes his characters live with him in a hotel, where they plot against him while figures from Irish legend and cowboy westerns wander in.
Watt
Watt arrives at the house of the mysterious Mr Knott to serve him, and tries, with exhausting logical thoroughness, to make sense of everything that happens there.
Molloy
A decrepit wanderer looking for his mother, and the agent Moran, sent to find him, each tell stories that dissolve as they go, in the first novel of Beckett's trilogy.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
When his wife remarks that his nose tilts to the right, Vitangelo Moscarda realises that everyone sees a different man, and sets out to destroy every one of the Moscardas others believe in.
Darkmans
In Ashford, Kent, a hospital laundry manager, his drug-dealing son and the people around them find that something from the fifteenth century, perhaps a royal court jester, is working its way into the present.
Cosmos
Two young men renting rooms in a Polish country house find a hanged sparrow in the woods and become obsessed with a web of signs that may or may not mean anything.
The Hearing Trumpet
Marian Leatherby, ninety-two, deaf and toothless, is given a hearing trumpet by her friend Carmella, overhears her family planning to put her in a home, and is packed off to a strange institution for old women run by a cult of self-improvement.
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.
The Bee Sting
The Barnes family of a small Irish town is coming apart: the father's car dealership is failing after the 2008 crash, the mother watches the money and the marriage slip away, and their teenage daughter and young son each struggle in secret.
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.
The Late Mattia Pascal
Unhappily married and in debt in a small Ligurian town, Mattia Pascal wins a fortune at Monte Carlo and, reading of his own death in the newspaper, decides to start a new life under a new name.
Ubik
In 1992 Joe Chip works for a firm that hires out people who can block telepaths and precogs from spying on its clients. When a job on the Moon goes wrong, the world around him starts to slip backwards in time.