Books like American Psycho
If you liked American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Because shares tags: horror, psychological, classic.
Eleanor joins a ghost study at Hill House, bonds fast with Theodora, and feels the house single her out by name.
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Because shares tags: horror, classic.
The full Poe shelf in one volume: mad narrators, rotting houses, Dupin, and the Raven.
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Don Quixote
Because shares tags: classic, satire.
A poor gentleman maddened by knight romances rides out as Don Quixote with Sancho Panza, until the world answers back.
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Candide
Because shares tags: classic, satire.
Voltaire's Candide follows a sheltered boy across earthquakes, wars, and Eldorado as his tutor's sunny optimism falls apart. Short, savage,…
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Northanger Abbey
Because shares tags: classic, satire.
Naive Catherine Morland mixes gothic novels with real Bath society and love.
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Cat's Cradle
Because shares tags: satire, classic.
Jonah researches the atom bomb and finds ice-nine and Bokononism on San Lorenzo.
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World War Z
Because shares tags: horror, satire.
A UN researcher collects survivor accounts from Patient Zero in China to Yonkers and the Redeker Plan, charting the zombie war.
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The Silence of the Lambs
Because shares tags: horror, psychological.
Clarice Starling seeks Hannibal Lecter's help to catch Buffalo Bill before Catherine Martin runs out of time.
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Misery
Because shares tags: horror, psychological.
A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave.
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V for Vendetta
Because shares tag: classic.
A masked rebel stalks fascist London while lost girl Evey finds her nerve, in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1988 DC graphic novel.
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Under the Dome
Because shares tag: horror.
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Because shares tag: horror.
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
