A few books to check out:

" Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass"  by Bruno Schulz

"The Book of laughter and Forgetting"  by Milan Kundera

"Music for Chameleons"  by Truman Capote

"Bastard Out of Carolina"  by Dorothy Allison

"Woman of the Dunes" by Kobo Abe

"A Second Infinity" by Michael D. Weaver

"Laughable Loves"  by Robert Aspirin

"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

"Birdy" by William Wharton

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Incriminating Evidence" by Lydia Lunch

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams

"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe

"No Exit" by Jean Paul Sarte

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson

"The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence"  by Robert M. Pirsig

"Seventh Heaven"  by Patti Smith

"It's Always Something" by Gilda Radner

and any of the comic collections about "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson