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10 best books like High Life (Matthew Stokoe): Requiem for a Dream, Dermaphoria, Apathy and Other Small Victories, This Time You Lose, All the Beautiful Sinners, Three Days to Die, The Philanthropist's Danse, The Barrens, Alleinstehender Psychopath sucht Gleichgesinnte, The Magdalen Martyrs

Requiem for a Dream
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
ISBN1560252480
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...
Dermaphoria
AuthorCraig Clevenger
ISBN1596921021
Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth's only memory is a woman's name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Eric finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present,...
Apathy and Other Small Victories
AuthorPaul Neilan
ISBN0312351747
The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely...
This Time You Lose
AuthorChris Stralyn
ISBN1466375132
What would you do if street thugs invaded your home? What if you're a daycare provider, caring for a dozen children at the time? Lisa Kaamp, a most unlikely heroine, faces just such a nightmare in This Time You Lose, the suspense driven story of one woman's struggle to survive when she and the children she...
All the Beautiful Sinners
AuthorStephen Graham Jones
ISBN1590710088
Nazareth, Texas
Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the town's sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect--an American Indian--holds chilling connections to the disappearance of Doe's sister years before. And the closer Doe gets to the fugitive's trail,...
Three Days to Die
AuthorJohn Avery
HE DIDN'T MEAN TO OVERHEAR ... but he did.

HE ONLY HEARD A FEW WORDS ... but he heard too much.

HE RAN ... but he was followed -- a mistake that would turn thirteen-year-old Aaron Quinn's, and his beautiful, courageous, single mother, Ashley's, worlds upside down.

THE CLOCK...
The Philanthropist's Danse
AuthorPaul Wornham
Twelve people. Five days. One fortune.

Johnston Thurwell, one of the world’s richest men, dies unexpectedly. His family expects to inherit his wealth, but instead discover the dying philanthropist has spent his last days planning something called The Danse. The twelve most important...
The Barrens
AuthorRosamond Smith
ISBN0786710381
In this gripping psychological thriller, Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times best-selling author and one of the most versatile and original voices in contemporary American fiction, delivers a startling, complex tale of a serial killer and the people that his ghastly crimes touch—and transform....
Alleinstehender Psychopath sucht Gleichgesinnte
AuthorJeff Strand
ISBN1594263493
Andrew Mayhem ist zurück - pleite, planlos und immer noch mit dem Hang, in skurill-makabre Abenteuer verstrickt zu werden. Diesmal zwingen ihn die Umstände, sich als Serienmörder auszugeben, um eine Gruppe von Psychopathen zu infiltrieren, die sich in einem abgeschiedenen Landhaus in Alaska...
The Magdalen Martyrs
AuthorKen Bruen
ISBN0312353510
Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned.

Jack is amazed when Cassell...
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