11 Top fiction books like Crooked Smile by Jack Moody

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Crooked Smile

By: Jack Moody

4.54

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Henry Gallagher is going to die. His liver is failing, and with each drink his chances of livin…

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1. Timequake

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a c… read more

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2. In the Miso Soup

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more

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3. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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4. New Millennium Boyz

By: Alex Kazemi

3.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brad Sela is living an apathetic suburban life in his affluent neighborhood until two new friends d… read more

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5. Happy Hour

By: Marlowe Granados

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more

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"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Money was limited, but my taste was not."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

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6. 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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  • fiction
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7. 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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8. Animals Eat Each Other

By: Elle Nash

3.48

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more

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"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

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9. Play The Devil

By: Scott Laudati

4.57

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Play The Devil is the debut novel from Scott Laudati. A semi-autobiographical tale of two best frie… read more

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10. Autumn Gothic

By: Brian Bowyer

4.26

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

In San Francisco, Sierra falls in love with her favorite author. After learning that Vivian Kane gr… read more

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11. Murder in Greasepaint: A Rock Cobbler Case

By: Whiskey Leavins

4.63

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Washed up pitching prospect, Rock Cobbler, now a hotshot detective with the Santa Lacrimosa PD like… read more

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12. Nudes

By: Elle Nash

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beginning with a story of an ex sex-worker drifting through a small rural town in the south, and en… read more

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13. Spore

By: Stuart Buck

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Spore is a psychedelic journey through life, death and fungal sex-parties read more

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14. Domestic Calicos

By: Clay Hunt

5.00

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Clay Hunt’s first full-length collection of poetry. Praise for Domestic Calicos: “Clay Hunt’… read more

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15. Crooked Smile

By: Jack Moody

4.54

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Henry Gallagher is going to die. His liver is failing, and with each drink his chances of livin… read more

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16. Poser: A Eucalyptus Lane Novel

By: Nevada McPherson

4.58

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Ambrose, a failed Bay Area drug dealer, is at the end of his rope after running afoul of his wicked… read more

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17. Lotus & The Apocalypse

By: Austin Davis

4.71

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

How would you feel if today was your last day on Earth? Lotus is the part of yourself you're afraid… read more

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18. Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work (Outcast-Press Anthologies)

By: Paige Johnson

4.24

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Compensated cuddle bunnies, cross-dressing diplomats, garden boy-seducing GILFs. That's just the st… read more

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"The days come and go, the cars passing by. Nothing is permanent in a prostitute’s life. Surely, no gloryhole is forever."

-Paige Johnson, Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work (Outcast-Press Anthologies)

"What amazes me, after all these years of selling my body, is that it’s always a man. Always… Always a man who is appalled by us enough to cause a scene. Even the men who chose to buy us."

-Paige Johnson, Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work (Outcast-Press Anthologies)

"How easy it is to justify the same act under a different name. A wife… A prostitute. Both are fucked in all the holes they have. Both do it to give their life some kind of value, both may enjoy being…"

-Paige Johnson, Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work (Outcast-Press Anthologies)

"I am not a victim, I am not a sinner, and I am no different than any other human selling their time and youth every day to a cluttered, blue-collar job. Accept the truth. You prefer to die under the …"

-Paige Johnson, Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work (Outcast-Press Anthologies)

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19. Oil Stains Like Rorschachs

By: Matthew McGuirk

4.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

In Matthew McGuirk's second collection, "Oil Stains Like Rorschachs" he takes us through the story … read more

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20. Daydreams, Obsessions, Realities

By: Matthew McGuirk

4.94

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Debut hybrid collection of poetry and prose from Matthew McGuirk that looks at topics ranging from … read more

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21. Quantum Diaper Punks

By: Stuart Buck

4.29

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Quantum Diaper Punks - age play! quantum physics! death cults! massacres! potent homemade drugs! read more

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8 must-read fiction books like Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz

Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Destroyed

Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

4.33

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