Books like Love Is a Dog from Hell
Love Is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski reads as cynical, raw. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Pleasures of the Damned
Charles Bukowski · 2007
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91% genome match
Fires
Raymond Carver · 1983
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69% genome match
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
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69% genome match
Gates of Eden
Ethan Coen · 1998
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69% genome match
Whoreson
Donald Goines · 1988
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69% genome match
Trilogía sucia de La Habana
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez · 1998
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69% genome match
Junky
William S. Burroughs · 1953
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69% genome match
Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock · 2008
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69% genome match
Bone palace ballet
Charles Bukowski · 1997
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84% genome match
Rule of the Bone
Russell Banks · 1995
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69% genome match
Death Wish
Iceberg Slim · 1977
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69% genome match
Tex
S. E. Hinton · 1979
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69% genome match
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