7 best-selling crime books like Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford

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Wild at Heart

By: Barry Gifford

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The heroes of Barry Gifford's world are Sailor and Lula, unconditional lovers whose dreams and adve…

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1. Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

By: Mark Frost

3.89

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, this novel b… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
"A traveller learns more than a passenger."

-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

"When a dark age comes, hold the light inside."

-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

"This ‘gargantuan multidimensional clusterfuck."

-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

"Pardon my French for a second, Chief, but what the fuck?"

-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

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2. The Lime Twig

By: Leslie A. Fiedler , John Hawkes

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' excit… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Crash

By: J.G. Ballard

3.59

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

Cover of Maigret (Maigret, #19) by Ros Schwartz, Georges Simenon

4. Maigret (Maigret, #19)

By: Ros Schwartz , Georges Simenon

3.69

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

We present a new translation of this gripping novel which sees the Inspector brought out of his pea… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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5. The Getaway

By: Jim Thompson

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal ca… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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6. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

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7. The Killer Inside Me

By: Jim Thompson

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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8. Martian Time-Slip

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophre… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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9. Wild at Heart

By: Barry Gifford

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The heroes of Barry Gifford's world are Sailor and Lula, unconditional lovers whose dreams and adve… read more

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  • romance
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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10. Lock No. 1 (Maigret, #18)

By: Georges Simenon , David Watson

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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11. The Rum Diary

By: Hunter S. Thompson

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found . Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp,The … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

12. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

By: Douglas Coupland

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brough… read more

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13. Ubu Roi

By: Barbara Wright , Alfred Jarry , Franciszka Themerson

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main chara… read more

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14. The Ruined Map

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

4.09

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined M… read more

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15. Exterminator!

By: William S. Burroughs

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself… read more

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16. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

By: Philip K. Dick

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more

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17. Duluth

By: Gore Vidal

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Perhaps Vidal's most outrageous novel, this is an indescribable fantasy purportedly set in the city… read more

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18. Cities of the Red Night

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern i… read more

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19. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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20. The Informers

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, … read more

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21. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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22. The Death of Superman (The Death and Return of Superman, #1)

By: Rick Burchett , Roger Stern , Dennis Janke , Jerry Ordway , Dan Jurgens , Louise Simonson , Doug Hazlewood , Tom Grummett , None , Jon Bogdanove , Brett Breeding , None

4.30

Format: 373 pages,

The story that drew national media attention when DC Comics killed their greatest hero is collected… read more

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23. Secret Rendezvous

By: Kōbō Abe , Juliet Winters Carpenter

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunescomes Secret Rendezvous,the bizarrely erotic and com… read more

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24. I Smell Esther Williams

By: Mark Leyner

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear expl… read more

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25. Drive (Drive, #1)

By: James Sallis

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and d… read more

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26. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)

By: James Ellroy

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more

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27. Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more

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28. 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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  • fiction
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29. Room to Dream

By: David Lynch

4.33

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking fi… read more

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"Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not."

-David Lynch, Room to Dream

"I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a g…"

-David Lynch, Room to Dream

Cover of Ominous Whoosh: A Wandering Mind Returns to Twin Peaks by John   Thorne

30. Ominous Whoosh: A Wandering Mind Returns to Twin Peaks

By: John Thorne

4.45

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Audacious. Cryptic. Vexing. These are a few words that describe David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin … read more

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31. Twin Peaks Unwrapped

By: Ben Durant

4.03

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

The Twin Peaks Unwrapped Podcast has over 200 episodes, and now they have a book. Hosts Ben Durant … read more

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3.89

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3.83

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J.G. Ballard

3.59

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3.69

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings

3.86

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