Absurdist Comedy

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    • By: Ivan Goncharov
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A member of the landed gentry, with a seemingly guaranteed income from his estate in the country, Oblomov lives in Petersburg, uninterested in the business that provides his living and barely aware that the revenue is diminishing....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Tad Crawford
    • Narrated by: Phil Kane
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife....

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    • A Satirical Novel of Hollywood
    • By: Chris Ver Wiel
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Tecosky
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • Morgan Beale is a pop icon - and hates every second of it....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel
    • Narrated by: Dave Barry, Mark Thompson, Sean Kenin, Orlagh Cassidy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of....

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    • By: Luigi Pirandello
    • Narrated by: Peter Tucker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Late Mattia Pascal (Italian: Il fu Mattia Pascal) is a 1904 novel by Luigi Pirandello. It is one of his best-known works and was his first major treatment of the theme of the mask....

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    • One cat’s journey to discover home is where the heart is
    • By: Dion Leonard, Sophie Pembroke
    • Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pug who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life....

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    • By: Ma Jian
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism....

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    • By: Steven Wright
    • Narrated by: Steven Wright
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Uniquely humorous and deeply profound, Harold documents the meandering, surreal, often hilarious, and always thought-provoking stream-of-consciousness ruminations of a 1960s third grader during a single day in class....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Richard Brautigan
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Trout Fishing in America is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's culture....

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    • By: Antti Tuomainen
    • Narrated by: Ville Leppanen, Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car....

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    • Ciclo di Malaussène 1
    • By: Daniel Pennac
    • Narrated by: Claudio Bisio
    • Series: Ciclo di Malaussène, Book 1
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-18
    • Language: Italian
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Benjamin Malaussène ha uno strano lavoro, è il capro espiatorio dell'Ufficio Reclami del Grande Magazzino di Parigi. Una cliente è...

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    • By: Mark Haber
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A darkly comic meditation on art, obsession, and the enigmatic power of friendship, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss stalks the museum halls of Europe, feverishly seeking salvation, annihilation, and the meaning of belief....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Sean Adams
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin, Allyson Ryan, Sarah Naughton, Todd Haberkorn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Blending the piercing humor of Alexandra Kleeman and the jagged satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before - and after - its demise....

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    • By: Jason Mott
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ronald Peet
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • An author goes on a book tour for his new bestseller which, as people keep telling him, is one hell of a book. One morning, he meets The Kid: a young Black boy who looks just like the one he keeps seeing on the news. And The Kid wants him to tell his story....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Esther Yi
    • Narrated by: Greta Jung
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—Y/N is a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Noa Yedlin
    • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Rebecca Stern
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics. There’s just one problem—he’s dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize must stay within his grasp, and so conspire to conceal Avishay’s corpse until the committee’s announcement.

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    • Hospital, Book 2
    • By: Han Song, Michael Berry - translator
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
    • Series: Hospital, Book 2
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the follow-up to the visionary Hospital, Yang Wei discovers that there’s more to the mysterious hospital than meets the eye—and none of it is as it seems....

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    • By: Stefano Benni
    • Narrated by: Luca Dal Fabbro
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-21
    • Language: Italian
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Tutto può accadere nel bar sotto il mare. Un bar in cui tutti vorremmo capitare, una notte, per ascoltare i racconti del barista, dell'uomo col cappello, dell'uomo con la gardenia, della sirena, del marinaio, dell'uomo invisibile, della vamp e degli altri misteriosi avventori. Sompazzo...

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