6 Best thriller books like Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

Cover of Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

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…

"How is your father?"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"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

If you liked the thriller plot in Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Mr Phillips

By: John Lanchester

3.25

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Mr. Phillips, c'est vous, c'est moi, l'homme de la rue, le " petit homme " de Gogol, que rien ne di… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Crash by J.G. Ballard

2. 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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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
"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

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3. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, … read more

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  • american
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Love is a skill you learn."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

"A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

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4. The Revisionists

By: Thomas Mullen

3.97

Format: 570 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, fro… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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5. Porno

By: Irvine Welsh

3.31

Format: None pages,

Diez anos despues de Trainspotting, Sick Boy esta en franca decadencia. Acaba de dejar su piso en u… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
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6. Slaves of New York

By: Tama Janowitz

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for l… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Dead Babies

By: Martin Amis

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemb… read more

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  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Frisk

By: Dennis Cooper

3.83

Format: None pages,

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. 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

10. Choke

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.25

Format: None pages,

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay eld… read more

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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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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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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

12. 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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13. 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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14. 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
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

15. Story of My Life

By: Jay McInerney

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights,… read more

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16. Bright Lights, Big City

By: Jay McInerney

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation,… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

Cover of Brightness Falls (The Calloway Trilogy, #1) by Jay McInerney

17. Brightness Falls (The Calloway Trilogy, #1)

By: Jay McInerney

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Brightness Falls is the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway. Set against the world of New York pu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"He looks out the window at the falling snow, then turns and takes his wife in his arms, feeling grateful to be here even as he wonders what he is going to do with his life in strictly practical terms…"

-Jay McInerney, Brightness Falls (The Calloway Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

18. 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
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
"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

19. Super-Cannes

By: J.G. Ballard

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself,… read more

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20. The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

By: Irvine Welsh

4.15

Format: None pages,

"A family saga, a revenge fantasy, a Twilight Zone-esque parable, and, most importantly, a very fun… read more

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21. Love Junkie

By: Robert Plunket

4.50

Format: None pages,

The critically acclaimed author of the cult favorite My Search for Warren Harding now writes a hila… read more

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22. 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
  • 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

23. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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24. The Book With No Name (Bourbon Kid, #1)

By: Anonymous

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of mur… read more

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25. Pygmy

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

The Manchurian Candidatemeets South Park--Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel since the generation-defin… read more

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26. The Eye of the Moon (Bourbon Kid, #2)

By: Anonymous

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

Following a massive rampage that left the streets of Santa Mondega soaked with blood, the elusive s… read more

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27. 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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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
"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

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28. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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29. Invisible Monsters

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a su… read more

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  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
"Sorry, mom. Sorry, God."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"Make me into anything, but just love me."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"The future is just wasted on some people."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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30. Ways and Means

By: Daniel Lefferts

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Daniel Lefferts’s searing debut novel Ways and Means, a striving finance student confronts the l… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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31. Killing The Elite

By: Anonymous

4.91

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

It's a big day for the Dead Hunters. The president of the United States is due to present them with… read more

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11 Best american books like Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

Transform Your Habits

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

Chuck Palahniuk

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Slaves of New York

Tama Janowitz

4.00

Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

3.25

Transform Your Habits

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

3.65

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10 Best classics books like Crash by J.G. Ballard

Transform Your Habits

Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Blue of Noon

Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings

3.86

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