Recs if you like The Unconsoled...

Not all collections hold things you can touch. This one holds worlds that breathe, selves that dissolve, and realities that refuse to hold their shape. These are the fictions that live on the edge of what language can contain - and sometimes just beyond. Admission is free, through entry requires a signed waiver: the curator cannot be held responsible for any transformations that occur upon your exit. We welcome specimen recommendations!

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

dreamy, surreal, reflective texts 🤍 composed of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs

I guess you could call it liminal...

: of, relating to, or suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings especially: having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality

Kafka’s books examine themes of anxiety, alienation, and the powerlessness of the individual. This list includes titles with similar subject matter.

Books exploring memory

Books that can be a little weird, a little silly, or a little sinister. Just like Cosmo Sheldrake. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes haunting, sometimes airy, and sometimes dark. But always distinct, strange, different, and beautiful. ❤️‍🩹 (And one just cuz it was written by his brother)

a collection of existential crises, surreal detours, grotesque little creatures, and the occasional philosophical cockroach. somewhere between the absurdity of being alive and the absurdity of trying to understand it.

Surreal stories for a weirder winter

Novel as travelogue, travelogue as novel

memory

You’re a mirrorball, sometimes it doesn’t feel so glamorous, it’s hard to be at a party when you feel like an open wound, cry your eyes violet, you’re down bad crying at the gym, it was not convenient, if they call you a "slut!" it might as well be worth it for once, they told you all of your cages were mental so you got wasted like all your potential, if the shoe fits walk in it 'til your high heels break, they kicked out the stage lights but you’re still performing, your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems, say you’ll remember me