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Across Absurdist, Classics, and Literary — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Happy Death by Albert Camus.

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Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

Slow Learner Early Stories — Thomas Pynchon

Slow Learner Early Stories

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

Moby Dick — Herman Melville

Herman Melville

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Beyond Tula A Soviet Pastoral

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Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

The Nose — Nikolay Gogol

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

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Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass — Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

Moral Tales — Jules Laforgue

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

Amerika: The Missing Person A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text — Franz Kafka

Amerika: The Missing Person A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

The Search for the Dice Man — Luke Rhinehart

The Search for the Dice Man

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

Blue Movie: 50th Anniversary Edition — Terry Southern

Blue Movie: 50th Anniversary Edition

Themes: Absurdist • Classics • Literary

The Talking Jewels — Denis. Diderot

The Talking Jewels — Denis. Diderot

Themes: Absurdist • Classics

Life for Sale — Yukio Mishima

Themes: Absurdist • Classics

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Themes: Absurdist • Classics

The Golden Ass — Apuleius

Themes: Absurdist • Classics

All this and More A Novel — Peng Shepherd

All this and More A Novel

Themes: Absurdist • Literary

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace — Matthieu Simard

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

Matthieu Simard

Themes: Absurdist • Literary

Idaho Winter — Tony Burgess

Themes: Absurdist • Literary

The Music of Chance — Paul Auster

The Music of Chance

Themes: Absurdist • Literary

The Book Tour — Andi Watson

Themes: Absurdist • Literary

Fans of Happy Death by Albert Camus will find 24 titles here, all united by Absurdist, Classics, Literary. Authors represented include Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Thomas Pynchon, Herman Melville, and others.

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