Quack’s Weird Duck Book Club: 8 Strange Duck Books You Never Knew You Needed

When we first introduced Quack in War Origin, he had one very important job.

Save Gabe’s soul.

No pressure.

Once Gabe learned his Topside power could actually be useful, he went all in. So far in, in fact, that he overused it and his soul began to crack, which is a bad thing even in Hell.

The only way to fix him was to bind his soul to a living creature. A human would have been ideal, but Gabe was not comfortable forcing someone into that kind of permanent commitment. A large, intelligent animal might have worked too.

But that would have been too easy.

Our job as authors is not to make our characters’ lives easy. Who wants to read that? Our job is to provide them with learning opportunities. Preferably painful ones.

In the end, Gabe did not have a choice.

He wound up bonded to a duck.

Not an eagle. Not a wolf. Not a majestic black stallion galloping dramatically through the mist.

A duck.

And to take this learning opportunity to the next level, the duck was loud, opinionated, overweight, and deeply offended by anyone who pointed out that last part. He also had a lot to say about humans, bread, transportation, and Gabe’s general incompetence.

Basically, we gave Gabe a feathered roommate who lives in his head, has no indoor voice, and cannot be evicted.

Despite all his rough-around-the-edges qualities, this deeply unlovable duck became a fan favorite.

Which led us to a very important question: What other wonderfully weird duck books are out there?

Apparently, quite a few.

Two Quack-Approved Duck Books

Fup by Jim Dodge

This darkly funny novella features a 99-year-old moonshiner, his enormous grandson, and a twenty-pound mallard named Fup.

Fup drinks whiskey, causes trouble, and possesses the kind of oversized personality Quack would either deeply admire or immediately challenge to a fight.

Probably both.

No Small Bills by Aaron Rosenberg

Bob Spinowitz is abducted by aliens and returned to Earth with a duck’s head.

Years later, the aliens come back because an interdimensional invasion is on the way, and DuckBob may be the only person capable of stopping it.

This is the kind of premise that raises a lot of questions, beginning with, “How did someone think of this?” and ending with, “Why am I already invested?”

More Weird Duck Books

These are only two of the eight wonderfully strange, Quack-approved books we found.

The complete list includes magical ducks, philosophical ducks, plastic ducks lost at sea, endangered ducks, and at least one book that is more than a thousand pages long.

Because apparently this website needed an entire waterfowl department.

Visit Quack’s Weird Duck Book Club in the C.G. Harris Amazon storefront to see all eight books.

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