The 5 Strangest Books of 2012
The 5 Strangest Books of 2012
By Misha Grunbaum
December 10, 2012

What does Black Balloon love if not strange, wonderful books that upend our traditional ideas of a story? Now that it’s December, I’d love to highlight a few of the most unusual titles of 2012. Whether you favor fiction, history, or sequential art, there's something for you among these five books.

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BBbB (Black Balloon bites Binet)
BBbB (Black Balloon bites Binet)
By James Rickman
May 03, 2012

HHhH, Laurent Binet's account of the assassination of a top-ranking Nazi in 1942, is divided into 257 mini-chapters. In an attempt to comprehend Binet's layering of fact and fiction, as well as the totally incomprehensible era he describes, I'm going to try out his "infranovel" techniques myself.

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