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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Fan Man
William Kotzwinkle · 191 pages
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh · 352 pages
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's first novel, Trainspotting, is a collection of short-stories revolving around a group of friends, their drug use, and struggles in the city of Edinburgh.
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 256 pages
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the
Ulysses
James Joyce · 736 pages
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge Jo
The Soft Machine
William S. Burroughs
Satori In Paris
Jack Kerouac · 117 pages
Satori in Paris: An autobiographical account of Kerouac's search for his heritage in France, populated by seedy bars and all-night conversations. Pic: Ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson of North Carolina narrates his adventures with his brother Slim as they travel from the rural South to Harlem in the 1940s.
Bee Sting
Paul Murray · 645 pages
The Lost Weekend
Charles Jackson · 244 pages
A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism. Made into a motion picture.
Screwjack
Hunter S. Thompson · 64 pages
Collects three short stories in Thompson's unique gonzo style: a chronicle of his first experience with mescaline, the death of a friend, and a letter by the fictitious Raoul Duke.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 265 pages
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello · 218 pages
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 273 pages
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
Why Are We in Vietnam?
Norman Mailer · 208 pages
Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.
Wittgenstein's Nephew
Thomas Bernhard · 112 pages
Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys · 189 pages
Sasha Jensen is rescued from her dismal room in London where she has been drinking herself to death and returns to Paris where she is picked up by a young man. For the first time in ages, she begins to feel she is still alive, still capable of desires and emotions.
Snow White and Russian Red
Dorota Maslowska · 308 pages
How Late it Was, How Late
James Kelman · 373 pages
In Scotland, the portrait of a petty crook who had one run-in with police too many. It is a series of reflections as he sits in jail, contemplating his fate. He had been in trouble before, but this time it's different, the latest brawl with police cost him his eyesight. Now in addition to all his other troubles he is blind.
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth · 288 pages
Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
The Portable Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters · 625 pages
The collection includes excerpts, chronologically arranged, from novels which make up the Legend of Duluoz. Kerouac appears as a child in Doctor Sax, as a teenager in Maggie Cassidy, as a young man in On the Road, as a road-wary traveler in Tristessa, as a committed seeker of truth in the Dharma Bums, and as a man at the end of the road in Satori in Paris.
De Niro's Game
Rawi Hage · 280 pages
In the Christian part of Beirut, torn by civil war, two befriended young men make a different choice about whether to flee or join the fight.
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal · 98 pages
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 239 pages
1982, Janine
Alasdair Gray · 352 pages