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A surreal, claustrophobic crawl through a hyper-capitalist apocalypse from the backseat of a soundproof stretch limousine. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Cosmopolis.
- claustrophobic
- surreal
- sterile
- apocalyptic
- anxious
- 01
Libra
Don DeLillo · 1988
A chilling, hypnotic descent into the shadowy mechanics of history and the paranoid heart of the American dream.
- 02
Falling Man
Don DeLillo · 2007
A haunting, ash-dusted meditation on the sudden fracture of ordinary life and the lingering echoes of collective trauma.
- 03
Money
Martin Amis · 1984
A manic, filthy, and hilariously grotesque joyride through the neon-lit excesses of the 1980s.
- 04
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 1991
A pitch-black, blood-soaked satire of 1980s excess that traps you inside the hollow, brand-obsessed mind of a monster.
- 05
No country for old men
Cormac McCarthy
A relentless, sun-baked chase that strips away the illusions of justice and leaves only the cold reality of fate.
- 06
Martin Dressler
Steven Millhauser · 1996
A hypnotic, architectural fairy tale about the dizzying heights and hollow center of the American Dream.
- 07
Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis · 2006
A hallucinatory, metafictional descent into suburban dread where a writer's darkest creations bleed into his waking life.
- 08
Bright lights, big city
Jay McInerney · 1992
A frantic, second-person plunge into the neon-lit exhaustion of urban excess and addiction.
- 09
Up in the Air
Walter Kirn
A witty, perceptive dive into the sterile comforts and psychic costs of a perpetually airborne, rootless existence.
- 10
Permutation City
Greg Egan
A dizzying plunge into the deep end of hard science fiction that will leave you questioning the fundamental nature of your own consciousness.
- 11
The gold coast
Nelson DeMille · 2001
A sardonic, suspenseful plunge into the collision between fading high-society opulence and ruthless underworld power.
- 12
White tears
Hari Kunzru
A feverish, dread-soaked descent into the dark, unquiet ghosts of America's musical past.
