It's horses for courses, but here are three oddish books that you might try chasing up. None of them exactly modern.

The Evolution Man (published in 1960 as "What we did to Father"), - everyday life in a tongue in cheek version of the old stone age, written by Ernest the Ape Man, with Father discovering fire with some tricky results, an dMother inventi g cooking; and Uncle Vanya objecting to all this new-fangled nonsense, with his slogan of "Back to the Trees.

And for something completely different, The Belovéd Vagabond by William J Locke, published in 1906, all about this travelling poet and musician who nearly gets sucked into bourgeous life, but escapes back to a saner lifestyle as a peasant. I remember some Sunday paper ran a feature about "Good Bad Books" once, and this scored very high.

And a third book which some would also see as a Good Bad Book, but I personally think is good without the qualification - The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge. Published 1960.