 | Moscow Stations by Venedikt Erofeev
Buy used from: £35.00 Drinking was never so fun. A short pickled classic
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 | A Mammal's Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie (Atlas Arkhive , No 5) by Erik Satie
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £73.54 Frankly better than his music: his odd little life. Try other Atlas Archives too.
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 | Satie: Seen Through His Letters by Erik Satie
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £10.56 More Satie, from Satie
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 | Satie Remembered by R Orledge
Buy used from: £15.08 One more...Collection of other peoples opinions on Satie.
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 | Joko's Anniversary by Roland Topor
Buy used from: £49.99 Underapprieciated author of absurd fiction.
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 | Friedrich Durrenmatt: Fictions v. 2: Selected Writings: Fictions v. 2 by F Durrenmatt
Buy new: £19.47 / Used from: £14.15 The Picador version of his novels appears out of print, but this is a fair replacement.
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 | Philosopher or Dog? by Machado De Assis
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 I have most of the translated works of Assis, some is rather mannered and dated, the rest is brilliant.
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 | Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Buy used from: £3.69 First rate novel based on a second rate fiction.
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 | The Circus of Dr.Lao (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) by Charles G. Finney
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £8.61 An odd little book that should be popular as a cult classic.
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 | The Golem (European Classics) (European Classics) by Gustav Meyrink
Buy new: £6.64 / Used from: £1.97 One of the best works by Meyrink, try his short stories too, like "The Opal"
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 | The Man outside by W Borchert
Buy new: £10.44 / Used from: £3.52 I recommend his other collection of short stories "The Sad Geraniums".
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 | A rose of flesh by Jan Wolkers
Oh dear, one for the 2nd had shops, the better novel of Jan Wolkers oeuvre. Shame no collections of his short stories in English.
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 | Man with the Black Coat, The: Russia's Literature of the Absurd (European Classics) by Daniil Kharms
Buy new: £16.50 / Used from: £11.64 Kharms, a master of the short short tale. Includes a good Introduction here.
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 | Incidences by Daniil Kharms
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.61 Vulgar tales, absurdist fiction.
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| Poil De Carotte (Easy Reader) by Jules Renard
Sorry Jules Renard is a favorite author of mine, but looks like you'll need to seach in 2nd hand shops for English translations. It's worth the search.
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 | The Experience of the Night (Europe 1996) by Marcel Bealu
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £5.99 Another £1.99 source fee rip-off- so go to you nearest bookshop for this one.
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 | The Heart of a Dog (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.28 Satire told through the eyes of a dog.
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 | Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace
Buy used from: £1.49 An English James Ellroy, morally dubious fiction based on fact. Latest is based on a Football Manager- UGH! Stick to serial killers!
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 | The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War (Everyman's Library Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £8.35 Ferret out his other collection "The Red Commissar" and the Biography "The Bad Bohemian".
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 | Payback by Gert Ledig
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £2.00 Dresden was a war crime. War is never right. The world is better without the Nazis, but don't forget the price paid in blood.
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 | What News of the War? by Robert Bober
Buy used from: £0.01 novel looking at life just after WW2 in a Jewish Dressmakers Shop. Also with G.Perec: Ellis Island: A Reader and Resource Guide
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 | The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis by Jacques Roubaud
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £1.98 Poetry. OULIPO style.
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 | The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.94 The style of writing in his second language like Nabokov, adds something, it feels clean, clear.
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 | The Notebook: The Proof ; the Third Lie : Three Novels by Agota Kristof
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £7.00 Terse style.
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| Andrej Rublev by Andrei Tarkovskii
Buy used from: £57.49 Insight into the movie, through this Kino-novel.
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