The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz (1934)

Proustian recollection filtered through the Kafkaesque, that reads like a proto-David Lynch screenplay: A book like The Street of Crocodiles needs those points of comparison for the uninitiated. Bruno Schulz’s eerie collection of stories, originally published in 1934, is a portrait of a family and town that resembled his own youth in Poland and is unlike anything you’ve read before.