Books That Inspired American Slacker
Explore the American slacker books that shaped a generation, from Fight Club and American Psycho to Poe—a curated reading list of gritty, dark fiction.
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. "A seminal book.” —The Washington Post One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. “A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing.... An important book.” —Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, The Shards!
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Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
This underground classic first published in 1996 tells the darkly funny story of a god-forsaken man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture.
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The Crow
by J. O'Barr
Eric Draven has returned from the dead, driven only by hate and the need to wreak revenge on those who killed him and raped and then killed his beloved Shelly.
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X-Men: Twilight of the Age of Apocalypse (X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse Gold Deluxe Edition)
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes many masterpieces by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
