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A Frozen Turd In A Hot Fridge (The Zoomeister Diaries Book 1) by Neil Stilwell

Kelsey Grammer's lawyers will be in touch In some respects, it might be better for me to stop buying self-published books from Amazon (other global conglomerates written by people on the platform-formerly-and-forevermore-known-as-Twitter who exude a sense of desperate self-pity and have links in their bios to their creative outpourings. I've never yet been as blown away as I have been by the books which random intertextual coincidences like those across which I've stumbled in algorithmic suggestions or prefaces and introductions in other books to wonders like Laird Hunt's The Impossibly and the collected stories of Breece D'J Pancake . Is it sympathy on my part, or just my own desperate need to be seen? Nope. It’s their fault for making me feel uncomfortable. In respect to Neil and his diaries, I’m not sure I can sum up my feelings any better than British Amazon customer TUS, who, appearing to prefer reviewing athletic supports and camera equipment rather than

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

The Cartoonist by Richard Beard

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Glyph by Percival Everett

Weasels In The Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

When Lions Roared: The Lions, The All Blacks, And The Legendary Tour Of 1971, by Tom English and Peter Burns

The Book Of Paradise by Itzik Manger

A Dead Man In Deptford by Anthony Burgess

Dr. No by Percival Everett

Love Murder by Saul Black

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

King Rat by China Miéville

Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor

The Android Mirror by Christopher Hall

Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes

From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami

There There by Tommy Orange

Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Quicksand by Steve Toltz

Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInness

Every Third Thought by John Barth

Zorrie by Laird Hunt

How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

The World And All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

Count Zero by William Gibson

Narrator by Bragi Ólafsson

Remainder by Tom McCarthy

Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss

The Sealed Knot by Clare Clark

H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker

Mr Kafka and Other Tales by Bohumil Hrabal

A Hanging At Cinder Bottom by Glenn Taylor

Angel's Inferno by William Hjortsberg

The Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies, by Richard Morgan

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

The Killing Lessons by Saul Black

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (The Complete Novels)

A History of Wales by John Davies

Woken Furies by Richard Morgan

The End Specialist by Drew Magary

The Trees by Percival Everett

The Heat's On by Chester Himes

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer