14 Best fiction books like Ketchup by Sam Pink

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Ketchup

By: Sam Pink

4.58

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

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1. The Halloween Tree

By: Ray Bradbury

3.78

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more

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"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

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2. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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3. Varieties of Disturbance

By: Lydia Davis

3.83

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles… read more

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"But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself."

-Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

"I looked at whale jawbones in the museum this morning. Then I did some shopping. Whenever I go into the drugstore it seems that many people are buying condoms and motion sickness medicine."

-Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

"No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back …"

-Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

"First they burned her - that was last month. Actually just two weeks ago. Now they're starvng him. When he's dead, they'll burn him too. Oh, how jolly. All this burning of family members in the summe…"

-Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

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4. Break It Down

By: Lydia Davis

4.03

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

Published to huge acclaim in the US, Lydia Davis's important debut collection of 34 stories seems t… read more

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"He did not know exactly when to thank his hostess after attending a dinner or a weekend party. In his uncertainty, he would thank her over and over again. It was as though he hoped to achieve through…"

-Lydia Davis, Break It Down

"The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and so…"

-Lydia Davis, Break It Down

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5. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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6. 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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7. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

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8. Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place

By: Scott McClanahan

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

When Scott McClanahan was fourteen he went to live with his Grandma Ruby and his Uncle Nathan, who … read more

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9. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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10. The Abortion

By: Richard Brautigan

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

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11. The Broom of the System

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the Systemstunned critics and m… read more

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12. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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13. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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14. Small Game

By: Blair Braverman

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers s… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

15. Ducks, Newburyport

By: Lucy Ellmann

3.97

Format: 1022 pages, Paperback

LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality … read more

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"Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,"

-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

"I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, “Ducky! Ducky!"

-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

"...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life..."

-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

"the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff"

-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

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16. 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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  • fiction
"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

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17. 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 Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han

18. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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19. Aesthetica

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.36

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more

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20. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

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21. Ketchup

By: Sam Pink

4.58

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

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