Books like Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. reads as dark, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson
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69% genome match
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick · 1977
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69% genome match
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh · 1993
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83% genome match
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk · 1996
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69% genome match
Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock · 2008
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69% genome match
Junky
William S. Burroughs · 1953
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69% genome match
Drinking in America
Eric Bogosian · 1987
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69% genome match
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962
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69% genome match
Milkman
Anna Burns · 2018
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69% genome match
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis · 1985
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83% genome match
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
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69% genome match
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones · 2021
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69% genome match
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