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Penny Harrigan, a junior lawyer, is swept up by the billionaire C. Linus Maxwell, who launches a line of sex toys that leaves women around the world unable to leave their homes, in a satire of consumer culture and desire.
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Fight Club
A young man starts an underground fight club that metastasizes into a nationwide anarchist movement, and the narrator realises too late that he and the leader may be the same person.
Not Forever, But For Now
Cecil and his older brother Otto, two young men still kept by governesses in a grand house in Wales, are heirs to a family business of murder for hire, and their grandfather, a contract killer with stories about famous victims, wants Otto in the trade.
The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart, a bored Manhattan psychiatrist, begins letting the roll of a die make his decisions, from the trivial to the criminal, and turns the idea into a therapy for his patients.
Super Sad True Love Story
In a near-future New York where everyone rates each other and books are dying, an ageing schlub falls for a young Korean-American woman.
Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout meets his creator in a Holiday Inn bar, and the meeting becomes a reckoning with free will, American madness, and the author's own despair.
American Psycho
Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street banker obsessed with business cards, grooming and restaurant reservations, is also a serial killer, or says he is, in a satire of 1980s greed and male vanity.
Stranger in a Strange Land
A human raised by Martians returns to Earth as a messianic figure whose alien perspective reshapes religion, politics, and love.
Crash
A London advertising man and a scarred crash researcher share an erotics of car accidents, and Ballard works out, with clinical patience, where that desire goes.
Sabbath's Theater
A sixty-four-year-old puppeteer of unspeakable depravity refuses to apologise for a life devoted to art, sex, and the refusal of every social norm.
Cat's Cradle
A writer researching what the inventors of the atomic bomb did on the day it fell tracks down the children of one of them, and follows them to a Caribbean island where ice-nine, a substance that freezes all water it touches, is waiting.
Brave New World
In a World State where people are bred in hatcheries, conditioned for their place and kept content with the drug soma, a few misfits and a young man raised on a reservation begin to question what happiness costs.
The Compound
Lily, bored and beautiful and in no hurry to return to a world that is falling apart, wakes in a remote desert compound as one of twenty contestants on a hit reality show, where the last one left wins and every task earns another luxury, or a necessity like food or a front door.