14 Best novels books like Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Cover of Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Survivor

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, …

"Suicide is very contagious."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"Suicide is very contagious."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

If you liked the novels plot in Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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
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  • 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

Cover of Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

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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  • novels
  • literature
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  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Clown Girl by Chuck Palahniuk, Monica Drake

3. Clown Girl

By: Chuck Palahniuk , Monica Drake

3.48

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber… read more

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  • humor
  • dark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
"The only value of wasted time is knowledge."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Clown Girl

"Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Clown Girl

"I asked the cardiologist why an electrocardiogram was called an EKG, instead of an ECG. He said, "Nazis. Nazis invented the machine." After he left, I found a napkin on my breakfast tray and wrote th…"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Clown Girl

"In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the ce…"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Clown Girl

Cover of Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

4. 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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  • fiction
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5. Slaughterhouse-Five

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages,

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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6. Breakfast of Champions

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more

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7. American Psycho

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
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8. Filth

By: Irvine Welsh

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gea… read more

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  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger

9. The Contortionist's Handbook

By: Craig Clevenger

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

John Vincent Dolan is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction.… read more

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  • thriller
  • novels
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10. Dermaphoria

By: Craig Clevenger

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Trade Paperback

Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth's only memory is a woma… read more

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  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman

11. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, preeminent pop culture… read more

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  • humor

12. Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty

By: None

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down)Harris Wittels comes a hysterical … read more

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13. 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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  • american
  • novels
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
"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

14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.99

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more

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  • horror
  • literature
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  • contemporary
  • novels
"Carry the fire."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If only my heart were stone."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You always did."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

19. Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more

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20. Survivor

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, … read more

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  • thriller
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Suicide is very contagious."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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21. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

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"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

14 Top fiction books like Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

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

Clown Girl

Chuck Palahniuk , Monica Drake

3.48

Transform Your Habits

Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis

3.10

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20 Best fiction books like American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

Transform Your Habits

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

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