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    Hiya!

    Was wondering if anyone had recommendations for books based on the kind I'm reading lately. All somewhat dark and focused on humanity at its worst (sometimes at its best too).

    1. Adam Johnson – The Orphan Master's Son
    2. Gillian Flynn – Sharp Objects, Dark Places, Gone Girl
    3. David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
    4. Stephen King – Needful Things, Desperation
    5. Thomas Harris – Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon
    6. Hubert Selby – Last Exit to Brooklyn
    7. Bret Easton Ellis – Lunar Park
    8. John Fowles – The Collector
    9. Shirley Jackson – everything
    10. Katherine Mansfield – everything, especially short stories
    11. Ian McEwan – The Cement Garden
    12. Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber

    My taste is kind of middlebrow right now — nothing too trashy, but Bolano's 2666 defeated me when I tried to get through it last month.

    Thanks a lot! 🙂

    (Edited to add 1)

    by ChargeVisible

    2 Comments

    1. thecorniestmouse on

      Check out Claire Keegan’s novellas, you might like them. I’ve only read Small Things Like These but I know the others are similar in tone.

    2. *The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Polloc*k. Gritty Southern Gothic noir about small-town cruelty, violence, and religious mania. Great writing and reads almost like a memoir. Excellent novel!

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