Books like Lolita
A middle-aged European intellectual becomes obsessed with a twelve-year-old American girl, narrating his predation in dazzling, unreliable prose that implicates the reader.
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Pale Fire
A deranged scholar's commentary on a 999-line poem by a dead colleague becomes a hallucinatory novel about exile, madness, and the impossibility of knowing another person.
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.
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.
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.
Eileen
In 1964, in a grim Massachusetts town, Eileen Dunlop, a lonely, self-loathing secretary at a juvenile prison who looks after her alcoholic father, becomes infatuated with Rebecca, the glamorous new education director, and is drawn into a crime.
Invisible Monsters
A fashion model with a ruined face reinvents herself as a series of disguises, hunting the people who destroyed her life.
Our Lady of the Flowers
In a prison cell, the narrator, Jean, conjures out of his solitude the Montmartre underworld of Divine, a drag queen, her pimp Darling and the young murderer called Our Lady of the Flowers.
Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
Cigano, an American drifter living rough in Rio de Janeiro after leaving prison clean of heroin, meets Narcisa, a poet and street addict, and falls for her.
Humboldt's Gift
Charlie Citrine, a successful writer in 1970s Chicago, is losing his money to an ex-wife, a small-time gangster and a demanding girlfriend while he mourns Von Humboldt Fleisher, the brilliant, self-destructive poet who was his mentor.
Nightwood
In Paris and Berlin between the wars, a circle of exiles orbits the restless, unreachable Robin Vote, and her abandoned lover Nora pours out her grief to a garrulous, unlicensed doctor in a novel of baroque, incantatory prose.
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.
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.