books that, when I finished them, I thought... wtf did I just read

• Brat by Gabriel Smith
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Pizza Girl by Jean Kyuong Frazier
• Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• Reinhardt's Garden by Mark Haber
• The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
• Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• St. Sebastien's Abyss by Mark Haber
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• Melmoth by Sarah Perry
• Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi