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Books like The Beautiful and Damned
A glittering, slow-motion trainwreck of a marriage drowning in champagne and squandered potential. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Beautiful and Damned.
- decadent
- glittering
- suffocating
- doomed
- 01
This Side of Paradise
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, melancholic portrait of a generation waking up from the intoxicating dream of youth to find themselves adrift.
- 02
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, champagne-soaked tragedy about the hollow pursuit of an impossible past.
- 03
Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, champagne-soaked tragedy about the hollow pursuit of an impossible past.
- 04
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A whimsical yet deeply melancholic fable about the absurdity of social expectations and the relentless, tragic march of time.
- 05
Revolutionary road
Richard Yates
A beautiful, remorseless portrait of a marriage suffocating under the opulent desolation of 1950s suburban life.
- 06
The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett
A sparkling, gin-soaked romp through 1930s New York where the banter is as deadly as the bullets.
- 07
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
A glittering, razor-sharp tragedy about a woman trapped by the very society she was bred to conquer.
- 08
The Buccaneers
Edith Wharton
An elegant, witty, and lushly romantic exploration of spirited young women clashing with rigid social traditions in pursuit of true love.
- 09
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1982
A sun-drenched, alcohol-soaked drift through 1920s Europe, where unspoken grief hides behind endless glasses of wine.
- 10
Less than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis · 1998
A sun-bleached, cocaine-dusted descent into the moral vacuum of 1980s Los Angeles.
- 11
Rules of Civility
Amor Towles
A sparkling, martini-dry plunge into 1930s Manhattan society, where ambition and chance collide in a haze of jazz and cigarette smoke.
- 12
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara · 1934
A razor-sharp, alcohol-fueled chronicle of a man's spectacular, self-inflicted ruin over a single holiday weekend.
