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Looking for a weird book

Books that don't behave. Some of these are short, some structural, some just unusual.
  1. House of Leaves — Mark Z. Danielewski novel
    Footnotes inside footnotes. A house with extra rooms.
  2. If on a winter's night a traveler — Italo Calvino novel
    The book is about you reading the book.
  3. Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov novel
    A 999-line poem with a deeply weird commentary.
  4. Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell novel
    Already mentioned. Counts here too.
  5. Geek Love — Katherine Dunn novel
    Carnival family deliberately breeds disabilities. Strange and great.
  6. Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer novel
    Already mentioned. Wears two genres.
  7. 100 Years of Solitude — García Márquez novel
    The Buendía family. Magical realism's foundation.
  8. Mrs. Caliban — Rachel Ingalls novella
    A housewife and an amphibious man.
  9. Things That Are — Amy Leach essays
    About squirrels, sea cucumbers, gravity.
  10. The Master and Margarita — Bulgakov novel
    Soviet Moscow + the Devil. Funny.