Beauty Queen

10 best books like Beauty Queen (Linda Glovach): Requiem for a Dream, Cut, Glass, Candy, Candy, The Basketball Diaries, Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh), Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Requiem for a Dream

Author	Hubert Selby Jr.
ISBN	1560252480

In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised...

Cut

Author	Patricia McCormick
ISBN	0439324599

Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.

Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She...

Glass

Author	Ellen Hopkins
ISBN	1416940901

Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster...

Candy

Author	Luke Davies
ISBN	0345423879

"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other. . . ."

He met Candy...

Candy

Author	Kevin Brooks
ISBN	0439683289

When Joe Beck, a fifteen-year-old suburban kid, gets lost in a disreputable neighborhood on his way to an appointment in London, he is struck dumb by his first sight of beautiful and seemingly innocent Candy. She talks with him, teases him, but reveals nothing about herself except her phone number....

The Basketball Diaries

Author

Jim Carroll

The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball.

Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving...

Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)

Author	John Hodge
ISBN	0786882212

Trainspotting, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh


Trainspotting is a phenomenal work that has achieved cult status, provocative, challenging, intriguing, creative, humorous, edgy as it is, the motion picture that has launched the career of a few excellent performers, from Ewan McGregor...

Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson

Author	Paul Perry
ISBN	1560256052

Fear and Loathing creates a sharp and savvy profile of one of the most provocative voices and distinctive personalities of our time. To Hunter S. Thompson, being a Gonzo journalist means doing whatever it takes to get to the truth; everything from dropping acid with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters...

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

Author	Jann S. Wenner
ISBN	0316005274

Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and his singular and provocative style challenged...

The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Author	Anita Thompson
ISBN	1555916228

Anita Thompson. The Gonzo Way. [Golden]: Fulcrum, [2007]. First edition, first printing. Twelvemo. 112 pages.

Anita Thompson pays tribute to her late husband as a writer and as a citizen, through her own words and those of who knew him best. With elegant prose and entertaining anecdotes,...

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Author	Robert A. Glover
ISBN	0762415339

Originally published as an e-book that became a controversial media phenomenon, No More Mr. Nice Guy! landed its author, a certified marriage and family therapist, on The O'Reilly Factor and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Robert Glover has dubbed the "Nice Guy Syndrome" trying too hard to please...