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I have been on a spree of quirky books lately. Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy (Re-read it, still very strange), Catch-22, and recently, a very hilarious and somewhat tragic book called Going Bovine by Libba Bray.

I am looking for more books similar in feeling. Now, I'm not looking for anything weird (HaHaHaHa POTATO LLOLOLOLOOL). Just quirky. Like earthbound.

Discworld.

That book made me fear British people. *Slowly backs away from Brad*

The City and the City <or> Un Lun Dun (China Mieville)

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)

Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)

Haunted (Chuck Palahniuk)

Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)

American Gods <or> The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)

Fangirl (Rainbow Rowell)

Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World <or> Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

Audition <or> Piercing (Ryu Murakami) (slightly more hardcore)

I read Fangirl.

I loved it! Pretty funny.

There's a ton of books that try to have "nerdy" protagonists, but this is the only one I've read where the author actually seemed to know anything about fanfic.  

The Zork Chronicles
100% Lunar Boy

John dies at the end.

Lol. I was about to recommend Going Bovine.

I reccomend Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And, of course, I also reccomend everything he ever wrote.