13 Best fiction books like The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke

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The Luckiest Guy Alive

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.02

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr. John Cooper Clarke for several deca…

"To freeze the moment In seventeen syllables Is very diffic - Haiku No. 1 "

-John Cooper Clarke, The Luckiest Guy Alive

"Five a.m. and mooching round Compartments in my brain Every corner occupied By garbage and disdain Down all day - up all night Beneath that energy draining light The Paperboy's Wife "

-John Cooper Clarke, The Luckiest Guy Alive

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Cover of The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

1. The Restraint of Beasts

By: Magnus Mills

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time in Scotland, there were three men who built high-tension fences, the kind that kee… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution by Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Jill Thompson, Steve Yeowell, None

2. The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

By: Grant Morrison , Peter Milligan , Jill Thompson , Steve Yeowell , None

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, a secret society called the Invisibles, who count among their number Lord Byron… read more

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  • fiction
"There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always."

-Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

"Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine."

-Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

"Ah, I feel a sadness on me, Dane. That's how the Irish people say it. In their language, you can't say, "I am sad," or "I am happy". They understood what we English have long forgot. We're not our sa…"

-Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

Cover of Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons, #2) by Arthur Ransome

3. Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons, #2)

By: Arthur Ransome

3.71

Format: 656 pages,

The second title in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, for grownups, for anyone captivat… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Cross and Burn (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #8) by Val McDermid

4. Cross and Burn (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #8)

By: Val McDermid

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Internationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermid' s work speaks for itself: her books have so… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

5. The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)

By: Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Audible Audio

"But the thing is," said Horley, "they didn't know each other at all. Never heard of each other. It… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston by Brian Bilston

6. You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

By: Brian Bilston

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

You Took the Last Bus Home is the first and long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious and su… read more

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  • poetry
  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood #1-3) by Clive Barker

7. Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood #1-3)

By: Clive Barker

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red." For those who only know Clive Bar… read more

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  • fiction

8. Notes of a Dirty Old Man

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages,

"People come to my door--too many of them really--and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man tur… read more

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9. Molloy

By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles

4.04

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea… read more

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  • fiction
"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."

-Samuel Beckett, Molloy

"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."

-Samuel Beckett, Molloy

"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."

-Samuel Beckett, Molloy

"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."

-Samuel Beckett, Molloy

10. Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechn… read more

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11. The Descent of Man

By: Grayson Perry

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys ar… read more

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12. Strange Weather in Tokyo

By: Hiromi Kawakami

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school… read more

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13. Me Moir - Volume One

By: Vic Reeves

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Vic Reeves' vivid, enchanting, and utterly hilarious childhood memoir is a comic masterpiece. Befor… read more

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14. Screwjack

By: Hunter S. Thompson

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book. They will not be disappoin… read more

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15. Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey

By: Richard Ayoade

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Would it be too much to say that my somewhat-wry prose has changed the way the film community think… read more

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16. Vile Bodies

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more

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17. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Earth Angel by Madeline Cash

18. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature
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21. Perfect Sound Whatever

By: James Acaster

3.85

Format: 304 pages, ebook

The hilarious and heartwarming new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author, un… read more

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  • music
  • humor
  • audiobook
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22. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • humor
  • audiobook
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23. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • music
  • audiobook
  • british literature
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24. The Luckiest Guy Alive

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.02

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr. John Cooper Clarke for several deca… read more

Similar categories in John Cooper Clarke's The Luckiest Guy Alive book and John Cooper Clarke's The Luckiest Guy Alive

  • music
  • poetry
  • british literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"To freeze the moment In seventeen syllables Is very diffic - Haiku No. 1 "

-John Cooper Clarke, The Luckiest Guy Alive

"Five a.m. and mooching round Compartments in my brain Every corner occupied By garbage and disdain Down all day - up all night Beneath that energy draining light The Paperboy's Wife "

-John Cooper Clarke, The Luckiest Guy Alive

Cover of Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins by Jeff Lemire

25. Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins

By: Jeff Lemire

4.27

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In the series that writer MARK MILLAR (HIT GIRL) called "the best comic of 2018," rural mystery and… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes

26. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

By: Nick Hayes

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
Cover of No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson

27. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

By: Mark Hodkinson

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and … read more

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  • music
  • audiobook
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28. Sincerity

By: Carol Ann Duffy

3.70

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns with  Sincerity , her last full collection as Poet Laureate, … read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
Cover of Alexa, what is there to know about love? by Brian Bilston

29. Alexa, what is there to know about love?

By: Brian Bilston

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Bilston is a magician with words’ - GuardianThe perfect, witty gift for Valentine’s and beyond. Al… read more

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  • poetry
  • humor
  • audiobook
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30. The Madness of Being: Stories

By: Ron D'Alena

4.38

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

The Madness of Being brings together fifteen memorable stories about the human condition, where ord… read more

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31. Unashamed

By: Harry Baker

4.57

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"A Joyous Book which artfully proves maths and poetry are two sides of the same Möbius strip" - Mat… read more

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  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

Cross and Burn (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #8)

Val McDermid

4.00

The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)

Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Pity

Andrew McMillan

3.71

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Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

Billy Connolly

4.16

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