Books

• Self-Reference Engine by Toh Enjoe

• The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts

• Transfinite Man by Colin Kapp

• Ubik by Philip K. Dick

• Permutation City by Greg Egan

• The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson

• Anathem by Neal Stephenson

• Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

I think this is a rather cliche answer but since no one's mentioned him yet I'll put in a plug for Phillip K. Dick. I don't think I've ever encountered weirdness done as well as he does it. My favorites are Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? but he has a lot of books and as far as I can tell, they're all weird af.

Gideon the ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Escapeology by Ren Warom

Weaveworld by Clive Barker

Kelly Link's short stories are weird

• Magic for Beginners
• Get in Trouble

The first story is often not that weird, but she is fantastic at magical realism. They aren't scary though. I recall for instance one story being about a cannon.

I haven't read those authors so I'm not sure if it's the same type of weird, but I recently read Hyperion which is both weird and good.

House of leaves is my all time favourite mindfuck horror literature. I just recommend going hard copy over ebook as the formatting is super important. I can't really describe it except to say I can see how Backrooms could be inspired by it.

It's well-known and well-studied, but also infamous as a book few people ever actually finish because it is so weird: Gravity's Rainbow.

I finished it. I'm not sure what I gained by reading it, outside of having a better understanding of what an acid trip might feel like. Very weird.

Other mainstream but weird recommendations: Mexican Gothic (highly recommend this) and A Night in the Lonesome October

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson.

The story follows Hiro Protagonist—a pizza delivery driver in a fractured, hyper-capitalized future reality and an elite hacker/swordfighter in the virtual "Metaverse".

If you like that, his other books are fantastic, especially Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and Diamond Age.

Imajica by Clive Barker

Teleportasm by Joshua Millican

Air by Geoff Ryman

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan (go in blind and stick with it)

14 by Peter Clines

The Hike by Drew Magary

Break the Bodies, Haunting the Bones By Micah Dean Hicks

Where They Wait by Scott Carson

Ever read Blindsight by Peter Watts?

The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes. Very reminiscent of Miéville and VanderMeer.

or Spanish

Borges, if you haven't read any of his works yet.

Asking around gave me this shortlist of suggestions:

• Agustina Bazterrica (in Spanish)
• Suzan Palumbo’s short fiction collection Skin Thief
• Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin’s Wax & Wane
• Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad
• Kev Lambert’s You Will Love What You Have Killed

checked Hiron Ennes, @AbouBenAdhem seems really interesting!

i read a few from Carlton Mellick III, they're pretty weird. some are translated to spanish: https://carltonmellick.com/books/

other bizzaro fiction in english: https://www.bizarrocentral.com/bizarro-books/

for weird horror, my favourite that might just be weird enough for the question is The Seven Days of Peter Crumb by Jonny Glynn

I haven't seen it mentioned yet so I'll throw in my rec: the spear cuts through water. You know how they say you need to know the rules to break the rules? This book is a masterclass in that. It does so many things that novels simply aren't supposed to... And the execution is flawless. The story is compelling, but I was most engaged with the way it was written. It felt like nothing else I've ever encountered - not because the ideas were new (nesting narratives, shifts in perspective, genre twists, etc) but because I've never seen so much of it executed so well together.

Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory and then all his other works.

Iain M. Banks if you're looking for this SciFi works.

Leguin - City of Illusions …and all her other books. Check out old school The Machine Stops E.M. Forster. And Ministry for the Future- Kim Stanley Robinson and all of his other books.

I can only recommend the books of Nick Harkaway, very China Miéville-like. I started with the Gone Away world. In Spanish I recently read 'te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas' by Solà. 'El último día de la vida anterior' by Andrés Barba also gave me some Mariana Enríquez vibes. Finally, 'the seven moons of Maali Almeida' (this was nominated for the Booker prize iirc) was also a blast, made me think of Pedro Páramo at times.

For horror - Kathe Koja

I also think you would like How to Lose the Time War, not horror but trippy weird and so great.

Ever read anything by Joe R. Lansdale?

The Laundry Files by Charles Stross are explicitly Lovecraftian and somewhat weird, though not as weird as any I've read by China Miéville. I also recommend one of Charles Stross' short stories called A Colder War.

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil was a lot of fun.

The Vorrh by Brian Catling. Very strange, dark historical fantasy set in colonial Africa. Exquisite, poetic prose and powerful imagery, one of my favourite books in recent memory.

I recently read Carrier Wave by Robert Brockway. It's strongly inspired by World War Z and King's The Stand, and while neither of those two are particularly weird this one adds its own twist on a not-quite-zombie apocalypse.

Beyond the Aquila Rift.

Bunch of short stories 2 of which were made into the love death and robots series.

It's hard to go wrong with Jeremy C. Shipp. I loved Vacation but it's hard to get ahold of at the moment. Their most recent work is The Merry Dredgers which I haven't read yet but looks fantastic.

This one is real weird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hothouse_(novel)