Books like Choke
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout and sex addict, pays for his mother's care home by choking on purpose in restaurants and letting his rescuers send him money, until he learns something about his mother and himself.
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Survivor
The last surviving member of a death cult hijacks a jet and narrates his life into its black box as the plane runs out of fuel over the Australian outback.
Invisible Monsters
A fashion model with a ruined face reinvents herself as a series of disguises, hunting the people who destroyed her life.
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.
Earthlings
As a girl, Natsuki believed a plush hedgehog from the planet Popinpobopia had given her magic powers, and her cousin Yuu believed he was an alien; as adults, unable to fit into the society she calls the Factory, they set out to escape it.
Perfume & Pain
Astrid Dahl, a lesbian novelist cancelled after a West Hollywood bookstore event, retreats to her Sapphic Scribes writing group, tries to give up pills and drink, and falls for nearly every woman in her orbit while her agent waits for the next book.
The Nix
A satirical family epic spanning from the 1968 Chicago riots to the present, connecting a mother's secret past to her son's public disgrace.
Yellowface
When her more successful friend dies, a struggling white novelist steals the unfinished manuscript about Chinese labourers in World War I, publishes it as her own, and lives in fear of being found out online.
Portnoy's Complaint
A Jewish-American man's obscene, hilarious complaint against his mother, his desire, and his inability to reconcile his appetites with his conscience.
Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
May We Be Forgiven
Harry Silver, a Nixon scholar, sleeps with his brother's wife, and within weeks his brother George's life explodes, leaving Harry to look after his house, his children and his dog.
Pretend I'm Dead
A housecleaner in Taos, New Mexico drifts through odd jobs and stranger relationships, narrating her life with deadpan humour and unacknowledged pain.
Naked Lunch
A drug addict's hallucinatory narrative dissolves plot, character, and language itself into a stream of images that broke every rule of what a novel could be.