9 must-read fiction books like On Drinking by Charles Bukowski

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On Drinking

By: Charles Bukowski

3.88

Format: 272 pages, ebook

CHARLES BUKOWSKI es uno de los escritores más conocidos y celebrados de las letras estadounidenses …

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1. Tough Guys Don't Dance

By: Norman Mailer

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity."

-Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance

"Despair is the emotion we feel at the death of beings within us."

-Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance

"Mi resi conto, allora, che l'unico vero collaudo della forza – del tono muscolare, per così dire – della sanità mentale è la capacità di sostenere l'urto di un interrogativo dietro l'altro senza che …"

-Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance

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2. Non-Fiction

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.57

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Non… read more

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  • short stories
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction

"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction

"Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction

"That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction

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3. That Yellow Bastard (Sin City #4)

By: Frank Miller

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a Sin City short story, "The Babe Wore Red," Frank Miller deviated from his stark black-and-whit… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Nagi sad

By: Wiesław Myśliwski

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

Debiut literacki wielkiego pisarza. Nagi sad to przejmujaca opowiesc o milosci ojca i syna. To milo… read more

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  • fiction
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5. This Census-Taker

By: China Miéville

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, and Karen Russell, This Census Takeris the poignant and… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Collected Poems, 1909-1962

By: T.S. Eliot

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac

4.06

Format: None pages,

On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction

8. Antología poética

By: Alfonsina Storni

3.59

Format: 128 pages,

Conocida y alabada por un publico aplisimo, Alfonsina Storni es autora de referencia por su valenti… read more

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9. Vintage Hughes

By: Langston Hughes

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attract… read more

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10. Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

3.73

Format: None pages,

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11. Os Cus de Judas

By: António Lobo Antunes

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Logo depois de voltar da guerra em Angola, Antonio Lobo Antunes escreve Os cus de Judas, sobre suas… read more

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12. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)

By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more

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13. Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

By: Dr. Seuss

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Library Binding

In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing… read more

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14. The Torture Garden

By: Octave Mirbeau

3.00

Format: None pages,

Lidandets lustgardav Octave Mirbeau ar en av de stora dekadenta klassikerna. Romanen vackte enormt … read more

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15. Person

By: Sam Pink

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

You see him at the liquor store. You see him at the bus stop, trying to look at you without being s… read more

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16. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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17. The Event: an epic joke

By: Sam Pink

4.35

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Where do YOU stand? read more

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18. On Drinking

By: Charles Bukowski

3.88

Format: 272 pages, ebook

CHARLES BUKOWSKI es uno de los escritores más conocidos y celebrados de las letras estadounidenses … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • alcohol
  • essays
  • fiction
  • drinking
  • audiobook
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19. A City Inside

By: Tillie Walden

3.91

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman s life from childho… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System by Alec Karakatsanis

20. Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System

By: Alec Karakatsanis

4.39

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society’s normalization of t… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. Un secol de poezie română scrisă de femei. Volumul I (1990–2019)

By: Alina Purcaru

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Primul volum al acestui proiect de cartografiere și recuperare în tot ce are mai reprezentativ poez… read more

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  • poetry

20 must-read fiction books like Girls Against God by Jenny Hval

Transform Your Habits

Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

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