11 Best novels books like The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink

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The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas

By: Sam Pink

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The basement was filthy. There was garbage all over. Any job I'd ever had involved garbage. I had b…

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Cover of The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock

1. The Devil All the Time

By: Donald Ray Pollock

4.13

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of characters f… read more

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  • fiction
"Some people were born just so they could be buried."

-Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

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2. Hill William

By: Scott McClanahan

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"You can tell McClanahan feels something when he writes and when he lives. He wants you to feel som… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"I couldn't believe it. Something wasn't right. I thought, "Batman smokes cigarettes." I couldn't believe it. "Batman smokes fucking cigarettes." I walked away and saw that Batman was just this stupid…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

"I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks were still gunning it throug…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

"That night I dreamed about flying turtles and forest fires and fucking the earth...The next morning I awoke and I listened to the tree company tearing away the woods and the timber. I heard the chain…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

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3. Taipei

By: Tao Lin

3.33

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

"At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail i… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • the united states of america
"On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in."

-Tao Lin, Taipei

"Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off."

-Tao Lin, Taipei

"Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusias…"

-Tao Lin, Taipei

"He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or…"

-Tao Lin, Taipei

Cover of Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

4. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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5. The Sarah Book

By: Scott McClanahan

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the ch… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • the united states of america
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6. 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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  • literature
  • fiction
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7. 100 Boyfriends

By: Brontez Purnell

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more

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  • fiction
"You never stop looking like art to me"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

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8. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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9. Fuccboi

By: Sean Thor Conroe

3.07

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • the united states of america
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10. The Novelist

By: Jordan Castro

3.41

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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11. Leave Society

By: Tao Lin

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—as an artist, a son, and a loner. A VI… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • the united states of america
"Patched-together or hard-won coverings of positivity flew away with ridiculous suddenness, like hats, or else gradually and unceremoniously, over days, like paint."

-Tao Lin, Leave Society

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

12. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

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Cover of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz

13. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

By: Taylor Lorenz

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more

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14. Body High

By: Jon Lindsey

4.20

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Squirting across the sunburned landscape of Southern California, Body High is a journey marked by m… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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15. Cherry

By: Nico Walker

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a pas… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"He said, “You look mentally ill."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Sometimes I wonder if life was wasted on me."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"He said, "You look mentally ill" I said "I am, Let's go"

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Emily’s gone to take a shower. The room’s half-dark and I’m getting dressed, looking for a shirt with no blood on it, not having any luck."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

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16. Abnormal Statistics

By: Max Booth III

3.99

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Suburban decay, familial horror, bleak lullabies. Abnormal Statistics is the debut story collection… read more

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  • fiction
"There are always concerns. Eating holes in your stomach. Scrambling your brain. Making your skin itch and itch and itch. Sometimes it feels like too much for a kid your age to handle. Sometimes it fe…"

-Max Booth III, Abnormal Statistics

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17. Teenager

By: Bud Smith

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like a… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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18. Bad Foundations

By: Brian Allen Carr

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson

19. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

By: Chelsea Hodson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more

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"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

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20. The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas

By: Sam Pink

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The basement was filthy. There was garbage all over. Any job I'd ever had involved garbage. I had b… read more

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  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • bizarro fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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21. Something Gross

By: Big Bruiser Dope Boy

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

"This genre-defying account (novel? narrative poem?) of the troubled love of a young man for an emo… read more

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  • fiction
  • the united states of america

18 must-read fiction books like The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink

Transform Your Habits

The Devil All the Time

Donald Ray Pollock

4.13

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Hill William

Scott McClanahan

4.01

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Taipei

Tao Lin

3.33

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Jesus' Son

Denis Johnson

4.26

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25 best-selling fiction books like The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan

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Fat City

Leonard Gardner

4.02

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Taipei

Tao Lin

3.33

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How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti

4.33

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Jesus' Son

Denis Johnson

4.26

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