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10 best books like Stories in the Worst Way (Gary Lutz): Child of God, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Portnoy's Complaint, The Book of X, Black Hole, Song for the Unraveling of the World, Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book One, War, So Much War, Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories, Orfeo

Child of God
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0679728740
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525541330
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
Portnoy's Complaint
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN0099399016
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Hilariously funny, boldly intimate, startlingly candid, Portnoy’s Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon...
The Book of X
AuthorSarah Rose Etter
ISBN1937512819
There is a quarry made of meat, marbled rich with fat. There is a family who lives at the meat quarry’s edge. There is a girl who lives with a knotted body, as does her mother, as does her mother’s mother. There is a girl who yearns to be seen with kind eyes, to be touched with soft hands, to be loved by an open...
Black Hole
AuthorCharles Burns
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it,...
Song for the Unraveling of the World
AuthorBrian Evenson
ISBN1566895480
A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia,...
Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book One
AuthorBrian K. Vaughan
Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 9781401219215

Y: THE LAST MAN, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising.

Written...
War, So Much War
AuthorMercè Rodoreda
ISBN1940953227
Despite its title, there is little of war and much of the fantastic in this coming-of-age story, which was the last novel Mercè Rodoreda published during her lifetime.

We first meet its young protagonist, Adrià Guinart, as he is leaving Barcelona out of boredom and a thirst for freedom, embarking...
Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories
AuthorJim Shepard
ISBN1400033497
I’ve been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this point I’d have to list darts, re-closing...
Orfeo
AuthorRichard Powers
ISBN0393349845
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus.

In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab—the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt...
Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Two
AuthorBrian K. Vaughan
ISBN1401222358
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.

Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied...
Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three
AuthorBrian K. Vaughan
Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 9781401225780

Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied...
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