10 Top fiction books like The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker by Jack Skelley

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The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker

By: Jack Skelley

3.89

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los…

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1. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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2. Horse Crazy

By: Gary Indiana

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A love story set in the age of AIDS, Horse Crazy tells of a successful 35-year-old writer's obsessi… read more

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Cover of I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext by Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark, John Kinsella, Matias Viegener

3. I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext

By: Kathy Acker , McKenzie Wark , John Kinsella , Matias Viegener

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. Closer

By: Dennis Cooper

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more

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5. I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more

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6. Speedboat

By: Renata Adler

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more

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7. Glamorama

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.54

Format: 546 pages, Paperback

“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more

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"How is your father?"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

8. After Kathy Acker: A Biography

By: Chris Kraus

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kathy Acker: Rich girl, street punk, scholar, stripper, victim, media-whore ... and cultural icon. … read more

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9. Blood and Guts in High School

By: Kathy Acker , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more

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10. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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11. Great Expectations

By: Kathy Acker

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker's Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, an… read more

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12. My Mother: Demonology

By: Kathy Acker

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

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13. Chelsea Girls

By: Eileen Myles

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more

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14. Try

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

By: Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more

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16. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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17. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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18. I Wished

By: Dennis Cooper

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more

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"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

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19. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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20. Weird Fucks

By: Lynne Tillman

3.17

Format: None pages, None

Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more

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21. The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker

By: Jack Skelley

3.89

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los… read more

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15 must-read fiction books like I Wished by Dennis Cooper

Transform Your Habits

Horse Crazy

Gary Indiana

2.78

Transform Your Habits

Story of the Eye

Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Left Hand

Paul Curran

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

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