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Loved The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt? If its male lead, brothers and first person narrator hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Butcher's Masquerade, The Blacktongue Thief and Post Office. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.
What’s inside The Sisters Brothers: Male Lead · Brothers · First Person Narrator · Dark Comedy · Assassins
Matt Dinniman
Dark Comedy · Violent · First Person Narrator · Quest Narrative · Male Lead
Christopher Buehlman
Anti-Hero · Dark Comedy · Morally Gray Character · Assassins · Quest Narrative
Charles Bukowski
Dark Comedy · Anti-Hero · Dry Humor · First Person Narrator · Male Lead
Scott Lynch
Anti-Hero · Morally Gray Character · Brothers · Dark Comedy · Male Lead
Elijah Kinch Spector
Dry Humor · Assassins · Morally Gray Character · Anti-Hero · First Person Narrator
T. Kingfisher
Dry Humor · Assassins · Morally Gray Character · Adventure · Quest Narrative
Joe Abercrombie
Dark Comedy · Anti-Hero · Quest Narrative · Violent · Morally Gray Character
Kel Kade
Assassins · Dry Humor · Male Lead · Violent · Morally Gray Character
Chuck Palahniuk
Dark Comedy · Anti-Hero · Violent · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction
Robert V.S. Redick
Brothers · Assassins · Quest Narrative · First Person Narrator · Male Lead
Jay Kristoff
Anti-Hero · Violent · Morally Gray Character · Quest Narrative · First Person Narrator
Marlon James
Anti-Hero · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction · Male Lead · Violent
Brynne Weaver
Anti-Hero · Dark Comedy · Brothers · Violent · Morally Gray Character
Brent Weeks
Assassins · Anti-Hero · Violent · Morally Gray Character · Male Lead
H.G. Parry
Morally Gray Character · Anti-Hero · Male Lead · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
Ian Mortimer
Brothers · Quest Narrative · Male Lead · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction
Margaret George
Morally Gray Character · Male Lead · Anti-Hero · First Person Narrator · Assassins
Jonathan Tropper
Brothers · Dark Comedy · First Person Narrator · Male Lead · Literary Fiction
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Dark Comedy · Dry Humor · Morally Gray Character · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator
Gregory David Roberts
Anti-Hero · First Person Narrator · Male Lead · Literary Fiction · Adventure
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