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A wickedly funny, hyper-articulate romp through the gritty underbelly of London, narrated by the ultimate unreliable and arrogant anti-hero. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with I, Lucifer.
- hedonistic
- chaotic
- gritty
- darkly comedic
- 01
The Last Werewolf
Glen Duncan
A blood-drenched, fiercely literate meditation on monstrous appetites and the exhausting burden of immortality.
- 02
Devil in the Gateway
Mike Carey
A darkly glamorous, philosophical noir where the ultimate antihero outwits the divine bureaucracy.
- 03
Inferno
Mike Care
A Machiavellian chess match played with cosmic stakes, where the sharpest weapon is a silver tongue.
- 04
The Devil You Know
Mike Carey
A gritty, sarcastic descent into a haunted London where the ghosts are dangerous but the living are worse.
- 05
The devil's detective
Simon Kurt Unsworth
A grim, supernatural noir where a weary investigator must navigate the ultimate corrupt bureaucracy to solve an escalating string of murders.
- 06
The Gospel Of Loki
Harris, Joanne M.
A sly, subversive retelling of Norse mythology from the perspective of its most infamous, unappreciated outcast.
- 07
The Dirty Streets Of Heaven
Tad Williams
A gritty, neon-soaked supernatural noir where the afterlife is just another corrupt bureaucracy and the angels are as world-weary as the demons.
- 08
Repossessed
A. M. Jenkins · 2007
A snarky, fish-out-of-water comedy that accidentally discovers the profound beauty of being a messy, ordinary human.
- 09
Aloha from Hell
Richard Kadrey
A whiskey-soaked, blood-spattered joyride through the grimiest corners of Los Angeles and the literal pits of Hell.
- 10
Prosper's Demon
K. J. Parker
A delightfully cynical plunge into the grimy business of exorcism, led by a narrator who might just be worse than the demons he hunts.
- 11
Johannes Cabal the necromancer
Jonathan L. Howard · 2008
A delightfully wicked romp through a demonic carnival run by a deadpan necromancer who just wants his soul back.
- 12
Filth
Irvine Welsh
A hilariously repulsive, drug-addled plunge into the mind of Scotland's worst police officer.
