13 Best classics books like Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

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Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

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Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc…

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1. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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2. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

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"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

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3. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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4. A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953

By: Anaïs Nin , Henry Miller

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

The intimacy between Nin and Miller, first disclosed in Henry and June, is documented further in th… read more

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5. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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6. Big Sur

By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his min… read more

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7. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

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Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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8. Little Birds

By: Anaïs Nin

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex … read more

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9. Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)

By: Anaïs Nin

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Taken from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, Henry and Junespans a single year in Nin… read more

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10. 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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11. The Haunted Life: and Other Writings

By: Jack Kerouac

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

1944 was a troubled and momentous year for Jack Kerouac. In March, his close friend and literary co… read more

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12. The Subterraneans

By: Jack Kerouac

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road,… read more

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13. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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14. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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15. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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16. Under the Volcano

By: Malcolm Lowry

3.77

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more

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"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

17. The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac

4.71

Format: None pages,

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more

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18. Delta of Venus

By: Anaïs Nin

4.14

Format: None pages,

In Delta of VenusAnais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination pos… read more

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19. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

By: Anaïs Nin , Gunther Stuhlmann

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves … read more

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20. Portnoy's Complaint

By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more

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21. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

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"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

11 best-selling fiction books like Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Transform Your Habits

A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

Anaïs Nin

3.71

Transform Your Habits

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

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14 best-selling fiction books like Post Office by Charles Bukowski

Transform Your Habits

Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)

John Fante

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Transform Your Habits

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.61

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