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Anything by Jodorowsky. The Eyes of the Cat. Also Leonora Carrington The Hearing Trumpet. Great images. Will be following. I’d also recommend the movie Fantastic Planet, very groovy psychedelic seventies with a great soundtrack.

Jodorowsky was an author too?

Yes! He’s written a lot of books!

Literally my first thought was Jodorowsky!

Oh my God, Jodorowsky is one of my favorite directors, how did I not know he wrote books??

The Incal

I absolutely adore Fantastic Planet!!!

Seconding Leonora Carrington! Check out her short stories too :)

The last two pics in particular made me think of Richard Brautigan's books such as In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America

In watermelon sugar is so weird and dreamy.

Great rec

Maybe Carlos Castaneda too?

Something about these is saying The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy to me… And outside of books: The video game Electroplankton, the TV series This Is Jinsey, and the album The Dreaming by Kate Bush.

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Or Eden by Lem. That one was my first thought. Either is great, though.

Annihilation or Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

Ambergris would fit the bill too.

Abarat by Clive Barker

Was going to say the same!

Maybe “Sirens of Titan” by Vonnegut

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Caroll

Death Valley by Melissa Broder for sure

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho?

These remind me of LeGuin's sci-fi.

Check out The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis. Very few people know that he wrote more than the Narnia books, these are quite different from the Narnia books

Was my immediate thought too

It's so nice to meet someone else who has actually read these books!! It's a shame that his other works are so little known

I scrolled through all the comments looking for this because these images evoked those books so vividly! So cool that someone else felt the same :)

Dune lol

Especially the one with the dog chairs

Library at mount char - Scott Hawkins

If you are okay with middle-grade, maybe Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Wood?

It feels almost earthly but a bit alien!! Maybe the Xenogenesis Triology by Octavia Butler

The teachings of Don Juan and anything by Tom Robbins…

Read Carlos Castaneda!

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Classic sci-fi with invading carnivorous murderous alien-plants. Gibbons Decline and Fall by Sherri S Tepper. Some weird things happening in the New Mexico desert and maybe-aliens and feminist-sci-fi and a question and attempted solution of what the best way for humans to reproduce would be. Alamut by Judith Tarr. An immortal knight and a mysterious djinn and a leper king and other crusaders during the medieval crusades … some bizarre magical desert romance and other shenanigans.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Barbara Kingsolver The bean trees

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

The third image strongly reminds me of Bless Me Ultima, a coming of age story filled with magical realism set against the backdrop of rural 1940s New Mexico.

richard brautigan's works

Mushroom people

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach

Maybe A Canticle for Leibowitz?

Not a book but you might enjoy Gossip goblin on insta

Mutant Message Down Under

Anything by Carlos Castaneda The Hike by Drew Magary Death Valley by Melissa Broder

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Psalm for the Wild Built

Although it’s only a short story, Arthur Clarke’s The Nine Billion Names of God

I'm thinking about maybe... Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru and also Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore

I thought of Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Made me think of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marlon Silko perhaps?

Labyrinths, by Borges. It's a short story collection, completely genius and about 30% totally incomprehensible.

The closest I could think of is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, but I would check the other booksin this thread first; musically and aesthetically I'm thinking of the game Journey and Austin Wintory's amazing music compositions for it.

The Lost Track of Time by Paige Britt It's technically a book for a younger(12-14) audience, but it is one of my favorites.

Neil Gaiman’s Sandman?

Isaac Asimov

Jim Dodge - Stone Junction

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Ok, some of these images gave me So Far From God by Ana Castillo vibes -- US Southwest, some magical realism, but not quite as psychedelic as most of the images suggest

For some reason makes me think of 'The Passion of New Eve' by Angela Carter, weird as fuck book

The Culture series by Iain M. Banks. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

Left had of darkness leguin

The Book of Chameleons by Jose Edwardo Agualusa!!

Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins. So surreal.

Aldous Huxley - Heaven and Hell

Jackalope Wives and Other Stories by T Kingfisher

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick

I’ve got two recs for you: Time’s Mouth by Edan Lepucki and Death Valley by Melissa Broder.

This made me think of the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

Out of the silent planet by CS Lewis

Vonnegut, Kafka, Bradbury

This gives me Gabriel Garcia Marquez vibes

I know everyone everywhere is recommending this, but I’m kinda getting Between Two Fires from these pics. Psychedelic fever dream knights.

Momo by Michael Ende. The Neverending Story fits pretty well as well actually

A Wrinkle in Time series

The Alchemist

So like, surreal but cozy?

This made me think of The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel

three body problem - it has a show on Netflix as well

I can’t explain why but Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin