12 must-read novels books like The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger

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The Contortionist's Handbook

By: Craig Clevenger

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

John Vincent Dolan is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction.…

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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
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"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. Kiss Me, Judas

By: Will Christopher Baer

3.80

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Have you ever loved someone who's mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine add… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"Disappear, she says. I love that word."

-Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

"And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain."

-Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

"Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence? I try to smile. What's the difference, really."

-Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

"I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself."

-Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

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3. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Love is a skill you learn."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

"A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

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4. Diary

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.64

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tour… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
"‎A different toothbrush waits in every time zone."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

"Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

"All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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5. 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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6. Knockemstiff

By: Donald Ray Pollock

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

Knockemstiff - litteralement " etale les raides " - existe vraiment. Ce n'est pas la moindre bizarr… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Acid House

By: Irvine Welsh

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Description from the inside sleeve: This scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous colle… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger

8. The Contortionist's Handbook

By: Craig Clevenger

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

John Vincent Dolan is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction.… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

9. 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

10. A Feast of Snakes

By: Harry Crews

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird … read more

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11. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

By: Harry Crews , Michael McCurdy

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Hardcover

A Childhoodis the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrai… read more

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12. Apathy and Other Small Victories

By: Paul Neilan

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life fall… read more

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13. Midnight Cowboy

By: James Leo Herlihy

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Joe Buck, naively charming Texan cowboy, seeks his fortune in the Big Apple, but encounters Ratso R… read more

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14. The Raw Shark Texts

By: Steven Hall

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to… read more

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15. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

By: Irvine Welsh

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened … read more

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16. The Demon

By: Hubert Selby Jr.

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The m… read more

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17. Snuff

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.35

Format: None pages,

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where n… read more

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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

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19. 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

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20. Lullaby

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

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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

Cover of Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

21. Not Forever, But For Now

By: Chuck Palahniuk

2.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of profess… read more

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  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"We're bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

"The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who'll do the job properly."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

"Religion ... is merely what people invent when they wake late at night filled with ancient terror of being found out in their little nest of grasses and torn to shreds by the inevitable."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

13 Best fiction books like The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger

Transform Your Habits

Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Kiss Me, Judas

Will Christopher Baer

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

Chuck Palahniuk

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Diary

Chuck Palahniuk

3.64

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14 Top fiction books like Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

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Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

3.95

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Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

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The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

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