10 must-read contemporary books like Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters

Cover of Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Web of the City

By: Harlan Ellison

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Harlan Ellison was awarded an honorary degree from UCLA for the excellence of his imaginative writi… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Ellison's Web of the City book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • fiction
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2. McGlue

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.67

Format: None pages,

Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's McGlue book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal

3. Myra Breckinridge

By: Gore Vidal

3.57

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Determined to reinvent himself and explore new territory in his work, Gore Vidal published a provoc… read more

Similar categories in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • lgbt
  • humor
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
"That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb."

-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge

"Not only are the male students drawn to violence (at second hand), they are also quite totalitarian-minded, even for Americans, and I am convinced that any attractive television personality who wante…"

-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge

"I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever possess. Clad only in garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the entire elite of the Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for "why" or "…"

-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge

4. Duluth

By: Gore Vidal

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Perhaps Vidal's most outrageous novel, this is an indescribable fantasy purportedly set in the city… read more

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5. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

Similar categories in Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

Similar categories in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • audiobook
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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7. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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8. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

9. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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10. Lapvona

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.53

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But such was death - it had nothing to say."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Cover of Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters

11. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more

Similar categories in John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • comedy
  • queer
Cover of Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr

12. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller

13. Bluebeard's Castle

By: Anna Biller

3.22

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, an… read more

Similar categories in Anna Biller's Bluebeard's Castle book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

14. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Cover of Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha  Allen

15. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's Wrong Norma book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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17. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Hearing Test

By: Eliza Barry Callahan

3.40

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Barry Callahan's The Hearing Test book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

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19. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

Cover of Pregaming Grief by Danielle Chelosky

20. Pregaming Grief

By: Danielle Chelosky

4.61

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Evoking the spirit of Annie Ernaux — who in Simple Passion "experienced pleasure like a future pain… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Chelosky's Pregaming Grief book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

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21. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Flunker book and John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

  • fiction
  • queer

14 Best fiction books like Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters

Transform Your Habits

Web of the City

Harlan Ellison

3.50

Transform Your Habits

McGlue

Ottessa Moshfegh

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Myra Breckinridge

Gore Vidal

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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9 Best fiction books like Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal

Transform Your Habits

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

Muriel Spark

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Driver's Seat

John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Spire

William Golding

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Europeans

Henry James , Tony Tanner , Patricia Crick

4.21

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