Books like Bad behavior
Bad behavior by Mary Gaitskill reads as bleak, raw. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Angels
Denis Johnson · 1983
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Lust & other stories
Susan Minot · 1989
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The Pleasures of the Damned
Charles Bukowski · 2007
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The man who fell in love with the moon
Tom Spanbauer · 1991
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Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock · 2008
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Rock Springs
Richard Ford · 1987
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Between Here and the Yellow Sea
Nic Pizzolatto · 2006
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Where I'm Calling From
Raymond Carver · 1988
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Man Descending
Guy Vanderhaeghe · 1982
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Winner take nothing
Ernest Hemingway · 1933
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Like a House on Fire
Cate Kennedy · 2012
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At the gates of the animal kingdom
Amy Hempel · 1990
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