Books like Ask the dust
Ask the dust by John Fante reads as melancholic, cynical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The People Look Like Flowers At Last
Charles Bukowski · 2007
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Junky
William S. Burroughs · 1953
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Trilogía sucia de La Habana
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez · 1998
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David Boring
Daniel Clowes · 2000
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Apathy and Other Small Victories
Paul Neilan · 2006
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Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell · 2006
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Ambrose Bierce's Civil War
Ambrose Bierce · 1956
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Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock · 2008
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69% genome match
Death Wish
Iceberg Slim · 1977
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Tex
S. E. Hinton · 1979
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Of Mice and Men & Cannery Row
John Steinbeck · 1947
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Winner take nothing
Ernest Hemingway · 1933
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69% genome match
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