11 must-read novels books like Steps by Jerzy Kosiński

Cover of Steps by Jerzy Kosiński

Steps

By: Jerzy Kosiński

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted …

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1. Trout Fishing in America

By: Richard Brautigan

3.76

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more

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"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

2. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

Cover of Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass

3. Omensetter's Luck

By: William H. Gass

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more

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Cover of Steps by Jerzy Kosiński

4. Steps

By: Jerzy Kosiński

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted … read more

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5. Dog Soldiers

By: Robert Stone

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more

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6. The Body Artist

By: Don DeLillo

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble Review In whatever form Don DeLillo chooses to write, there is simply no other A… read more

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7. Mating

By: Norman Rush

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more

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Cover of V. by Thomas Pynchon, Carlos Martín Ramírez

8. V.

By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Cover of Pick-Up by Charles Willeford

9. Pick-Up

By: Charles Willeford

4.01

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

He Holed Up With a Helpless Lush Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is … read more

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"No whiskey, no religion, nothing."

-Charles Willeford, Pick-Up

"There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats."

-Charles Willeford, Pick-Up

Cover of The Atrocity Exhibition by William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, V. Vale, Phoebe Gloeckner, Andrea Juno, Ana Barrado

10. The Atrocity Exhibition

By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more

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Cover of Angels by Denis Johnson

11. Angels

By: Denis Johnson

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Adazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angelstells the story of two born losers. Jamie h… read more

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12. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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13. Dirty Havana Trilogy

By: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez , Natasha Wimmer

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For the last four decades, Fidel Castro's communist Cuba has survived a harsh economic blockade. In… read more

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14. JR

By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more

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15. The Abortion

By: Richard Brautigan

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

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16. Teorema

By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

4.26

Format: None pages,

Una novela en la que los sentimientos, los pensamientos y las convicciones morales y religiosas ocu… read more

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17. Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970

By: Richard Brautigan , Gordon Legge

3.40

Format: None pages,

A collection of 62 very short stories set in 1960s California, particularly around the author's hom… read more

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18. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)

By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more

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19. The Gospel Singer

By: Harry Crews

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more

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20. Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

By: John Lanchester , B.S. Johnson

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Paperback

B.S. Johnson's funniest and most accessible novel, reissued for the first time in 25 years. Christi… read more

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21. Masters of Atlantis

By: Charles Portis

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

1917 France, Lamar Jimmerson finds a little book of Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, alchemical… read more

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