Top 10 Strangest Books Ever Written

There are some pretty weird books out there. This list is proof of that.
The Top Ten
1 Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook - Annick Giroux

Even if you like metal, there are things in this book that are just too bizarre for words.

But this book is pretty cool!

Great book, tasty dishes!

2 Codex Seraphinianus - Luigi Serafini

This is truly the strangest book ever. No competition. It is weird in all senses, and I just think the heavy metal cookbook was voted to number one just because it's about metal. Don't judge a book by its cover, people.

The heavy metal cookbook may be weird, but this book is even weirder. It should be number 1.

I wish I could buy this just to see how bizarre it is.

3 Teach Your Wife to Be a Widow - Donald I. Rogers
4 Where Underpants Come From: From Cotton Fields to Checkout Counter - Joe Bennett
5 A History of Thimbles - Edwin F. Holmes

Tell me true, if you have read this in detail, was this an intriguing read?

6 Baboon Metaphysics - Horace Bent
7 How to Be Danish - Patrick Kingsley

Wow... Just in case you have that sudden urge to stop being who you are and become a Great Dane. It's all Dutch to me. Nice.

8 Saucepans and the Single Girl - Jinx Morgan
9 Jurassic Towel Origami - Alison Jenkins
10 Pets Who Want To Kill Themselves - Duncan Birmingham

Whoever thinks it's funny is sick, and whoever thinks it's not odd need their eyes tested.

The Contenders
11 Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
12 Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart - Sherry Argov

Strangely, there are many women that have read that crappy book otherwise it wouldn't have become a best-seller. I wonder what were they thinking! It really escapes me.

13 Gadsby - Ernest Vincent Wright

This is a lipogram novel that doesn't contain the letter "E" in any page which is apparently the most used letter in the alphabet. It has 260 pages and it's 50,000 words long.

14 The Rotters' Club - Jonathan Coe

This book contains the longest sentence ever written in english, spanning 13,955 words long.

15 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino

This story describes you reading this novel, then immerses you in a character that's part to a book. Basically second-person and takes the 4th wall to the next level.

16 Never Again - Doug Nufer

This is a novel that uses each unique word and doesn't allow the same words used twice.

17 Le Train de Nulle Part - Michel Thaler

A French novel that doesn't use any verbs.

18 Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn

The most interesting part of this novel is that letters are gradually excluded as you read further.

19 Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
20 El Pelotudo Argentino - Mario Ruben Kostzer
21 Manual Para la Vida de la Boluda Total - Fabio Alberti
22 Natural Harvest: A Collection of Semen-based Recipes - Paul "Fotie" Photenhauer
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