10 best-selling literature books like Model Behaviour by Jay McInerney

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Model Behaviour

By: Jay McInerney

3.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

'I'm sick of all this pointless glamour,' his glamorous girlfriend said. 'I want a simple life.' If…

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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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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"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. Imperial Bedrooms

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

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3. The Rotters' Club

By: Jonathan Coe

3.96

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescen… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"...he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a…"

-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

"ja niin elämässäni kaikki tuntuu tänään muuttuneen, jopa kaupunki muuttaa muotoaan ympärilläni, minä istun Paradise Placella ja katson Muistojen saliin päin ja yhtäkkiä kaikki viittaa minuun ja Cicel…"

-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

"They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour…"

-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

"Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face an…"

-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

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4. H.P. Lovecraft's the Hound and Other Stories

By: None , None , Gou Tanabe

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A pair of decadent young men pursue the abhorrent thrill of grave robbing...a German submarine's cr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Lunar Park

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zerocatapulted him … read more

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  • novels
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Inherent Vice

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • american
  • fiction
Cover of Dexter's Final Cut (Dexter, #7) by Jeff Lindsay

7. Dexter's Final Cut (Dexter, #7)

By: Jeff Lindsay

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

With 1.7 million copies of the Dexter novels sold, and ever-increasing critical acclaim, Jeff Linds… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Double Dexter (Dexter, #6)

By: Jeff Lindsay

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The dark and witty New York Timesbestselling series... The inspiration for Showtime's critically ac… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis

4.33

Format: None pages,

In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

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. A Horse Walks into a Bar

By: David Grossman , Jessica Cohen

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"What do people see in me on the first impression? ... Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?"

-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar

"What do people see in me on the first impression? Can they still see what I was until not long ago? Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?"

-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar

"En tunnistanut itseäni, kun olin hänen kanssaan. En tunnistanut innostunutta, eloisaa poikaa, joka minusta kuoriutui. En tunnistanut ohimoilleni nousevaa kuumotusta, vaikka se johtui ajatusten kiihko…"

-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar

12. The Perfect Girlfriend

By: None

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his air… read more

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13. Model Behaviour

By: Jay McInerney

3.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

'I'm sick of all this pointless glamour,' his glamorous girlfriend said. 'I want a simple life.' If… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • americana
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • humor
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

14. The Map of Love

By: Ahdaf Soueif , أهداف سويف

4.07

Format: 253 pages,

With her first novel, In the Eye of the Sun, Ahdaf Soueif garnered comparisons to Tolstoy, Flaubert… read more

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15. 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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16. 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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17. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

By: Viv Albertine

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more

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"It’s true the good die young."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I think most people in long marriages have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome"

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

18. The Best of Everything

By: Rona Jaffe

3.64

Format: 320 pages,

When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction f… read more

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19. Glamorama

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.54

Format: 546 pages, Paperback

“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"How is your father?"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

20. The Rules of Attraction

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set at a small affluent liberal-arts college in New England eighties, The Rules of Attractionis a s… read more

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21. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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22. 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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23. Short Cuts: Selected Stories

By: Raymond Carver , Robert Altman

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly origi… read more

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24. The Bonfire of the Vanities

By: Tom Wolfe

3.90

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

25. A Man in Full

By: Tom Wolfe

4.28

Format: None pages, Paperback

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia -- a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and… read more

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26. Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)

By: Jeff Lindsay

4.00

Format: 120 pages,

The newest novel in the New York Timesbestselling series that inspired Showtime's #1 hit, Dexter. J… read more

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27. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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28. White

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ellis offers a first work of nonfiction meditating on the social-media age. The result is both a de… read more

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  • american
  • americana
  • the united states of america
"[I]t seems that everyone has fallen under the thrall of this idea that we’re all writers and dramatists now, that each of us has a special voice and something very important to say, usually about a f…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, White

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29. Aesthetica

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.36

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke

30. A Bright Ray of Darkness

By: Ethan Hawke

3.72

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage impl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"the theater is the living consciousness of the world."

-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness

"the actual joy of acting lies in the absence of personality."

-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness

"a man needs to aspire to greatness and if he gives up on his hope for excellence, his soul dies"

-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness

"It’s our job to transform literature into an event. We do this with why and how. Why our character speaks and how our character speaks."

-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness

Cover of Scar Tissue (Alex Abbott #1) by Ollie Ollerton

31. Scar Tissue (Alex Abbott #1)

By: Ollie Ollerton

3.93

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-m… read more

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  • fiction

17 best-selling fiction books like Model Behaviour by Jay McInerney

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

Transform Your Habits

The Rotters' Club

Jonathan Coe

3.96

Transform Your Habits

H.P. Lovecraft's the Hound and Other Stories

None , None , Gou Tanabe

3.75

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Transform Your Habits

Oblivion: Stories

David Foster Wallace

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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