11 Top classics books like The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

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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 …

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Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

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

Cover of Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson by Paul Perry

2. Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson

By: Paul Perry

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing creates a sharp and savvy profile of one of the most provocative voices and disti… read more

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Cover of Factotum by Charles Bukowski

3. Factotum

By: Charles Bukowski

3.93

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of as… read more

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"عشق به درد آدم‌های واقعی می‌خورد."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"Моята пияна от бира душа е по-тъжна от всички мъртви коледни елхи по света"

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

Cover of Women by Charles Bukowski

4. Women

By: Charles Bukowski

3.81

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slac… read more

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"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met"

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

Cover of On the Road by Jack Kerouac

5. 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

Cover of Big Sur by Aram Saroyan, Jack Kerouac

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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Cover of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

7. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac

4.06

Format: None pages,

On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more

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8. 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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9. Pulp

By: Charles Bukowski

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a write… read more

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10. Ham on Rye

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more

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11. Hollywood

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages,

Henry Chinaski siempre ha estado en pie de guerra, sin bajar la guardia contra el <>y sus infinitos… read more

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12. 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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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. Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy

By: Robert Anton Wilson

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Take a quantum leap into the universe of Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy. It's a wise and wacky look at o… read more

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15. 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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16. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

By: Tom Wolfe

3.57

Format: 416 pages,

For a start, Kesey's own life with the Merry Pranksters is perhaps the consummate example of a phen… read more

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17. Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

By: Jann S. Wenner , Corey Seymour

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Bor… read more

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18. The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Ralph Steadman

4.43

Format: 250 pages,

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19. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

Cover of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

20. 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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"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Cover of Post Office by Charles Bukowski

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

10 must-read fiction books like The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Factotum

Charles Bukowski

3.93

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Women

Charles Bukowski

3.81

Transform Your Habits

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.61

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Transform Your Habits

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

John Fante

4.10

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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

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Women

Charles Bukowski

3.81

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