Books like Invisible Monsters
12 books with a reading profile close to Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. Inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.
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1
These Violent Delights
Also inward-looking · 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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2
The Silent Wife
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Todd and Jodi share an affluent life in Chicago, maintaining a twenty-year domestic partnership built on silence and denial.
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3
The Last House on Needless Street
Also inward-looking and open-ended · thriller, psychology
In a boarded-up house at the end of a dead-end street, Ted Corden lives in isolation with his daughter, Lauren, and his religious cat, Olivia.
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4
Homesick for Another World
Also inward-looking · psychology, literary
Ottessa Moshfegh’s short story collection tracks the internal lives of social outcasts, addicts, and neighborhood creeps inhabiting gritty urban landscapes and neglected suburbs.
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5
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Lou Ford is a deputy sheriff in Central City, Texas, who presents himself to the town as a polite, slow-talking, and dull-witted lawman.
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6
Fight Club
thriller, psychology
An insomniac office worker finds relief from his corporate boredom by engaging in underground bare-knuckle boxing matches orchestrated by Tyler Durden, a charismatic soap salesman.
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7
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
thriller, literary
Frank Cauldhame is a sixteen-year-old living on a remote Scottish island, where he maintains a series of elaborate, violent rituals involving animal sacrifice and makeshift explosives.
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8
Asterios Polyp
psychology, literary
Asterios Polyp is a high-concept architect who has never seen one of his blueprints actually constructed.
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9
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
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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10
Confessions
by Kanae Minato
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Yuko Moriguchi, a middle school teacher, announces her resignation following the death of her four-year-old daughter, Manami.
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11
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
by Eric LaRocca
Also inward-looking and open-ended · literary, experimental
Two women, Agnes and Ashley, meet in an online chat room in the early 2000s and begin an intense correspondence.
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12
The Push
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
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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