Books like Fight Club
12 books with a reading profile close to Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Deep and growth-minded; a moderate read.
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The Dinner
by Herman Koch
thriller, narrative
In an upscale Amsterdam restaurant, two couples meet for a multi-course meal to discuss a horrific crime committed by their teenage sons.
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Confessions
by Kanae Minato
thriller, narrative
Yuko Moriguchi, a middle school teacher, announces her resignation following the death of her four-year-old daughter, Manami.
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3
Penance
by Eliza Clark
thriller, narrative
Set in the seaside town of Crow-on-Sea, this novel uses a fictional true-crime format to document the murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson.
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The Perfect Nanny
thriller, narrative
The story opens with the discovery of two murdered children in a Parisian apartment.
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5
The Push
thriller, narrative
Blythe Connor is determined to be the warm, nurturing mother she never had, hoping to break a multi-generational cycle of maternal detachment.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Also deep · thriller, narrative
In eighteenth-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born among fish guts with an absolute sense of smell but no natural body odor of his own.
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No Country for Old Men
thriller, narrative
Llewellyn Moss, a welder and Vietnam veteran, discovers two million dollars in cash while hunting near the Rio Grande, leftovers from a botched drug deal.
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The Guest
by Emma Cline
thriller, narrative
Twenty-two-year-old Alex is cast out of her older boyfriend Simon’s wealthy Long Island home after a breach of etiquette.
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10
These Violent Delights
thriller, psychology
In 1970s Pittsburgh, Paul Fleischer, a solitary college student mourning his father's suicide, meets the charismatic and affluent Julian Loscalzo.
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Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
thriller, narrative
Amanda and Clay, a white middle-class couple from Brooklyn, rent a remote vacation home in Long Island with their two teenage children.
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12
Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
narrative, psychology
Roxane Gay’s collection of short stories centers on the private lives of American women navigating a broad spectrum of class, race, and trauma.
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