If you're looking for your next mind-bending read, here are 10 great surreal books to get you started:

• 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