Lynchian Novels

David Lynch: an artist so singular, his name became an adjective. The following fiction titles follow his vision of the uncanny surreal, with menacing tones, bizarre imagery, dark and absurd humor, clashes of the mundane and macabre, twisty dream logic, themes of innocence corrupted, and an abundance of the unearthly inexplicable. 


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Concrete Island

On a day in April, just after three o’clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland’s car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror…

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Earthlings

Dreamlike, shocking, and always strange, “Earthlings” asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Murata’s status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe.

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Let No One Sleep

After the IT firm where she works shuts down, Lucía has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment’s air vent. “Let No One Sleep” is a delirious novel in which the mundane and extraordinary collide, art revives and devastates, and identity is unhinged by the forces of globalized capitalism.


Nefando

A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game. Unsparing, addictive, and perverse, Nefando takes us to the darkest corners of the web, revealing the inevitable entanglement of digital and physical worlds.

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Overstaying

An impudent young woman lives alone in the small hometown she hates but can’t bring herself to leave. When a visitor turns up, promisingly new, she takes him in, and instantly her life revolves around him. Yet it is hard to tell what, exactly, this visitor is.


Solenoid

Combining fiction with autobiography and history, “Solenoid” ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania.” 

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That Time of Year

Tourist season is over. It’s time for the vacationing Parisians, Herman and his family included, to abandon their rural getaways and return to normal life. But where has Herman’s family gone? Concerned, he sets out into the oppressive rain and cold for news of their whereabouts. As time passes, Herman, wittingly and not, becomes one with a society defined by communal surveillance, strange traditions, ghostly apparitions, and a hospitality that verges on mania.


The Third Policeman

Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him.

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Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

“Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier” tells us what happened to key characters in the twenty-five years in between the events of the first series and the second, offering details and insights fans will be clamoring for.

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The Wishing Pool

The fourteen stories in this collection weave between pandemics, future civilizations, and the mysteries of a place called Gracetown, Florida.  

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Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant–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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Yume

Cybelle teaches English in a small city in Japan. She faces ostracism and fear daily, but she loves her job, despite its increasing difficulties. She vows to do her best — even when her sleep, appetite, and life in general start to get weird, and conforming to the rules that once helped her becomes a struggle.

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