Friday Mood Recs: Weird Little Books
Strange, surreal, eerie, trippy, and downright odd books for your reading list
A couple weeks ago I was at my local independent bookstore and I saw a table display with the subtitle “weird books for weird people.” I was instantly drawn to it.
I love a weird book…especially a weird little book. The addition of the diminutive matters to me because as much as I love a strange story, I’m not always up for 300+ pages of weird. There are exceptions, of course. I will read a Mona Awad book of any length, and occasionally a weird epic like Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift really does it for me. But, for the most part, I believe that brief is better when it comes to weird.
So, inspired by that display, today I have 20 weird little books of my own accompanied by a one sentence pitch. If you need a dose of the strange in your reading life, one of these might be right for you!
