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surreal, speculative

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Science fiction, fantasy, and otherwise unreal fiction I've read. Also including authors I've read more than one book/story from whose work tends to fall in this category.
I am choosing titles that tend more towards the "weird" - for example, I'm a big fan of Kazuo Ishiguro, but I think that Never Let Me Go isn't strange enough for this list, despite the sci-fi conceit.
Another favorite author of mine is Shirley Jackson. Many of her stories have a creepy edge, but so far I'm only including The Sundial and The Haunting of Hill House because they are the novels that lean most towards the supernatural.

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  • Cover of: Kangaruu noto

    First published in 1996 — 3 editions work
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  • Cover of: Gun, with occasional music

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  • Cover of: The killer thing

    Cover of edition killerthing0000wilh First published in 1967 — 6 editions work
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  • Cover of: The Other Side

    First published in 1967 — 4 editions work
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  • Cover of: Julian Comstock: a story of 22nd-century America

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  • Cover of: Ficciones

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  • Thomas Ligotti

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  • Philip K. Dick

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  • Cover of: Don't look now: stories

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  • Cover of: Soon I Will Be Invincible

    First published in 2007 — 5 editions work
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  • H.P. Lovecraft

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  • Cover of: Neuromancer

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  • Cover of: The sundial

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  • Cover of: The Pillowman

    First published in 2003 — 4 editions work
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  • Cover of: The Turn of the Screw

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  • Cover of: The ghostly tales of Henry James

    First published in 1963 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

    Cover of edition isbn_9780375703768 First published in 1998 — 11 editions work
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  • Cover of: Extremities

    Cover of edition extremitiesstori00koja First published in 1998 — 2 editions work
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  • Cover of: Bloodchild and other stories

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  • Cover of: Suna no onna

    First published in 1967 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: Boneshaker

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  • Cover of: Venus, inc

    First published in 1984 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: Three a.m.

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: Death sentences

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  • Cover of: The Stars My Destination

    Cover of edition starsmydestinati0000alfr Cover of edition starsmydestinati00best Cover of edition starsmydestinati00bestrich Cover of edition starsmydestinati0000best First published in 1956 — 25 editions work
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  • Cover of: The fifty year sword

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: Die Handschrift von Saragossa

    First published in 1950 — 40 editions work
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  • Cover of: Alif the Unseen

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  • Cover of: A Monster Calls

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  • Cover of: The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schultz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    First published in 1989 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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  • Cover of: Kalpa Imperial: the greatest empire that never was

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  • Cover of: Man in the Empty Suit

    First published in 2013 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: The Fall of the Stone City

    First published in 2013 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: The Bloody Chamber

    First published in 1978 — 8 editions work
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  • Cover of: The Demolished Man

    Cover of edition demolishedman00best Cover of edition demolishedman00best Cover of edition demolishedman00best_458 First published in 1951 — 32 editions work
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  • Cover of: Against the Day

    Cover of edition againstday00thom First published in 2006 — 9 editions work
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  • Cover of: Fleurs bleues: Translated from the French by Barbara Wright.

    First published in 1967 — 3 editions work
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  • Cover of: Le città invisibili

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  • Cover of: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor)

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  • Cover of: Dhalgren

    Cover of edition dhalgren00samu Cover of edition dhalgren00del Cover of edition dhalgren00dela Cover of edition dhalgren00dela_0 First published in 1975 — 23 editions work
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  • John Ajvide Lindqvist

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  • Cover of: Navidad y matanza

    First published in 2007 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: Hazarski rečnik: a lexicon novel in 100,000 words

    Cover of edition dictionaryofkhaz00pavi Cover of edition dictionarykhazar00pavi_277 First published in 1984 — 7 editions work
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  • Cover of: Beloved

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  • Cover of: Shovel Ready: A Novel

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  • Cover of: Stars in my pocket like grains of sand

    Cover of edition starsinmypocketl00dela_0 First published in 1984 — 10 editions work
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  • Cover of: American elsewhere

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition work
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  • Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskiĭ

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  • Cover of: The house on the strand

    Cover of edition houseonstrand00duma Cover of edition houseonstrand00daph_2 Cover of edition houseonstrand00maur First published in 1705 — 41 editions work
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August 13, 2011 Created by Diandra Rodriguez Created new list.