If you loved
Books like Choke
A pitch-black, visceral plunge into modern alienation and the desperate, absurd lengths we go to for a scrap of human connection. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Choke.
- grimy
- absurd
- chaotic
- bleak
- 01
Snuff
Chuck Palahniuk · 2008
A claustrophobic, pitch-black satire that traps you in a grimy waiting room to confront the grotesque extremes of human commodification.
- 02
Rant
Chuck Palahniuk · 2007
A chaotic, fragmented fever dream of urban decay, vehicular carnage, and time-bending paradoxes.
- 03
Another roadside attraction
Tom Robbins
A psychedelic, philosophical road trip through the absurdity of Western civilization and the magic of the counterculture.
- 04
Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
A torrential, darkly hilarious howl of grief and obscenity from a man refusing to go quietly into old age.
- 05
Factotum
Charles Bukowski
A beer-soaked, deadpan drift through the soul-crushing drudgery of mid-century American wage labor.
- 06
Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski
A brutally honest, darkly funny plunge into a bruised adolescence where cynicism and cheap booze are the only shields against a harsh world.
- 07
A Dirty Job
Christopher Moore · 2006
A hilariously morbid romp through the bureaucracy of the afterlife, anchored by the fierce love of a neurotic single dad.
- 08
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
A wildly absurd, darkly hilarious road trip through the broken heart of American consumerism, complete with felt-tip pen doodles.
- 09
Practical Demonkeeping
Christopher Moore · 1992
A chaotic, laugh-out-loud romp through a quirky coastal town besieged by a very hungry, very inconvenient monster.
- 10
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson · 2005
A manic, neon-soaked descent into the dark heart of the American Dream, fueled by chemical excess and biting cynicism.
- 11
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous
A raw, cynical confession of emotional terrorism that forces you into the mind of a deeply unlikable but magnetic narrator.
- 12
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
