If you're looking for your next mind-bending read, here are 10 great surreal books to get you started: Contents: Two Short Parables by Franz Kafka The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Nose by Nikolai Gogol The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol Memoirs of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét The Statement of Randolph Carter by H. P. Lovecraft