17 best-selling fiction books like Left Hand by Paul Curran

Left Hand

By: Paul Curran

4.13

Format: None pages,

"Left Hand is every reason why Paul Curran is one of the smartest, most daring, meticulous, violent…

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1. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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3. Cows

By: Matthew Stokoe

2.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mother's corpse in bits, dead dog on the roof, girlfriend in a coma, baby nailed to the wall, and a… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Stokoe's Cows book and Paul Curran's Left Hand

  • literature
  • bizarro fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
"Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Touch me."

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Can you handle it?"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"There were couples, too, together on the slashed seats, and they were the most densely coloured of all. Their belonging, their completeness, pushed them out from the background of safety glass and pr…"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"There had been no love there, upstairs tonight, but it would come - Lucy would force it into being. She had no choice. She would never find her black lumps of poison or cut them out, and like Steven …"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

4. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Frisk

By: Dennis Cooper

3.83

Format: None pages,

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Closer

By: Dennis Cooper

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more

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  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror

7. Left Hand

By: Paul Curran

4.13

Format: None pages,

"Left Hand is every reason why Paul Curran is one of the smartest, most daring, meticulous, violent… read more

Similar categories in Paul Curran's Left Hand book and Paul Curran's Left Hand

  • unfinished
  • literature
  • bizarro fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • novels

8. Blood and Guts in High School

By: Kathy Acker , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more

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9. Guide

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else's hand; Mason has lurid fa… read more

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10. Try

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. Audition

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife… read more

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12. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Woom

By: Duncan Ralston

3.25

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Warning: this book contains graphic violence and sexuality most readers will find offensive. "I… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Fluids

By: May Leitz

3.43

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

A woman, desperate for companionship. Another woman desperate for acceptance. Love and obsession qu… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. I Wished

By: Dennis Cooper

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's I Wished book and Paul Curran's Left Hand

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

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16. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories

By: qntm

4.34

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, de… read more

Similar categories in qntm's Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories book and Paul Curran's Left Hand

  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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18. Amygdalatropolis

By: B.R. Yeager

3.69

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"

-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

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19. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Waif

By: Samantha Kolesnik

3.55

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

Angela has everything she thought she ever wanted—a successful husband, a lavish house, and a botto… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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21. I Fear My Pain Interests You

By: Stephanie LaCava

2.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned… read more

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  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror

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Dennis Cooper

3.79

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3.72

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Kristopher Triana

3.67

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Aron Beauregard

3.38

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