If you loved
Books like Money
A manic, filthy, and hilariously grotesque joyride through the neon-lit excesses of the 1980s. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Money.
- sleazy
- hangover-soaked
- feverish
- neon-lit
- 01
London Fields
Martin Amis · 1989
A dread-soaked, fatalistic plunge into urban decay and the dark gravity of self-destruction.
- 02
Dead Babies
Martin Amis · 1975
A pitch-black comedic dive into the chaotic and cynical underbelly of 1970s England.
- 03
Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo · 2003
A surreal, claustrophobic crawl through a hyper-capitalist apocalypse from the backseat of a soundproof stretch limousine.
- 04
Bad behavior
Mary Gaitskill · 1988
A raw, disenchanted plunge into the longing and angst of an urban fringe generation desperate for connection.
- 05
The Debt to Pleasure
John Lanchester · 1996
A wickedly funny, sensory-drenched culinary memoir that slowly rots into a brilliant, sinister psychological portrait.
- 06
Porno
Irvine Welsh
A grimy, high-octane reunion of aging degenerates scheming their way through the sleazy underbelly of Edinburgh.
- 07
The way we live now
Anthony Trollope
A sprawling, razor-sharp social satire where the currency is gossip, the elite are morally bankrupt, and the house of cards is destined to fall.
- 08
Filth
Irvine Welsh
A hilariously repulsive, drug-addled plunge into the mind of Scotland's worst police officer.
- 09
High-rise
J. G. Ballard · 1975
A clinical, claustrophobic descent into the feral underbelly of modern luxury.
- 10
Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley · 2004
A dizzying, sharply cynical romp through the intellectual pretensions and hedonistic chaos of the Roaring Twenties.
- 11
Remainder
Tom McCarthy
A chilling, deadpan descent into the obsessive pursuit of perfect, manufactured authenticity.
- 12
The Polysyllabic Spree
Nick Hornby · 2004
A laugh-out-loud, highly relatable chronicle of the eternal battle between the books we buy and the books we actually read.
