8 Best thriller books like Filth by Irvine Welsh

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Filth

By: Irvine Welsh

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gea…

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Cover of Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

1. Lullaby

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.74

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. Aft… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
"I'm in love. So kill me."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

"We're all of us haunted and haunting."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

"Some people still think knowledge is power."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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2. Haunted

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.59

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing… read more

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  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

"Some stories, you use up. Others use you up."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

"As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked?"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

"As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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3. American Psycho

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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4. Filth

By: Irvine Welsh

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gea… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

5. Choke

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.25

Format: None pages,

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay eld… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. Last Exit to Brooklyn

By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more

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7. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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8. Kill Your Friends

By: John Niven

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-b… read more

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9. 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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  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

10. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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11. Layer Cake

By: None

3.77

Format: None pages,

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12. Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)

By: None

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the underbelly of Edinburgh, Trainspotting is a story inhabited by a galaxy of immensely col… read more

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13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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14. Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess , Stanley Kubrick

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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15. Pygmy

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

The Manchurian Candidatemeets South Park--Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel since the generation-defin… read more

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16. Viva La Madness

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Now Connolly is back with a sequel that sees him on the same stunning form, with his trademark razo… read more

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17. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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18. Survivor

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, … read more

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  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Suicide is very contagious."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

Cover of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

19. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

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  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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20. Invisible Monsters

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a su… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
"Sorry, mom. Sorry, God."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"Make me into anything, but just love me."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"The future is just wasted on some people."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Cover of The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

21. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

11 Best fiction books like Filth by Irvine Welsh

Transform Your Habits

Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

3.74

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Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk

3.59

Transform Your Habits

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

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Irvine Welsh

2.50

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Transform Your Habits

Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

3.95

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Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

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