10 best-selling thriller books like Kill 'Em All by John Niven

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Kill 'Em All

By: John Niven

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS It is 2017 – the time of Trump, Brexit and fake new…

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1. Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.05

Format: 548 pages, Paperback

Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at universit… read more

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  • dark
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

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2. Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #1)

By: Scott Brick , Kevin J. Anderson , Dean Koontz

4.03

Format: 498 pages, Audio Cassette

Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of myst… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday."

-Scott Brick, Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #1)

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3. Diary

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.64

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tour… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"‎A different toothbrush waits in every time zone."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

"Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

"All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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4. Glue

By: Irvine Welsh

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the ex… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Alan Partridge: Nomad

By: Steve Coogan , Alan Partridge , Rob Gibbons , Neil Gibbons

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

In Alan Partridge: Nomad, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey thro… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • audiobook

7. Amsterdam Rampant

By: Neil Cocker

3.43

Format: 331 pages,

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8. The Blade Artist

By: Irvine Welsh

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A succ… read more

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9. A Decent Ride (Terry Lawson, #3)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction A rampaging force of … read more

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10. Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)

By: Charlie Huston

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on bloo… read more

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11. Caught Stealing (Hank Thompson, #1)

By: Charlie Huston

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once … read more

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12. 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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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. How a Gunman Says Goodbye

By: Malcolm Mackay

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

The breathtaking, devastating second novel in the acclaimed Glasgow Trilogy, a Deanston Scottish Cr… read more

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18. Crime

By: Irvine Welsh

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Welsh's sizzling new novel, Crime, is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine S… read more

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19. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

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  • thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Spaceships Over Glasgow

By: Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more

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  • music
  • audiobook
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22. Kill 'Em All

By: John Niven

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS It is 2017 – the time of Trump, Brexit and fake new… read more

Similar categories in John Niven's Kill 'Em All book and John Niven's Kill 'Em All

  • music
  • humor
  • dark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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23. Perfect Sound Whatever

By: James Acaster

3.85

Format: 304 pages, ebook

The hilarious and heartwarming new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author, un… read more

Similar categories in James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever book and John Niven's Kill 'Em All

  • music
  • audiobook
  • humor
  • contemporary
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24. Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York T… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite."

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

"I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them"

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

"I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs."

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

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25. The Young Team

By: Graeme Armstrong

4.49

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Long Knives

By: Irvine Welsh

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Medi… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up."

-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

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27. A Likely Lad

By: Pete Doherty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his d… read more

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  • music
  • audiobook
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28. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

By: Dan Stone

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the e… read more

Similar categories in Dan Stone's The Holocaust: An Unfinished History book and John Niven's Kill 'Em All

  • audiobook
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29. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

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  • music
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

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30. The Black Dog

By: Kevin Bridges

3.60

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain's most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There’s too much pressure on folk nowadays to try and fully eradicate any form of sadness…"

-Kevin Bridges, The Black Dog

14 Top fiction books like Kill 'Em All by John Niven

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Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

Irvine Welsh

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #1)

Scott Brick , Kevin J. Anderson , Dean Koontz

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Diary

Chuck Palahniuk

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Glue

Irvine Welsh

3.31

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19 Top nonfiction books like Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie

Transform Your Habits

Telling Stories

Tim Burgess

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

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Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

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Thurston Moore

3.81

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