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A dizzying, drug-fueled descent into the hollow heart of 1980s campus life, where everyone is talking but nobody is listening. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The rules of attraction.
- chaotic
- hedonistic
- drug-hazed
- claustrophobic
- 01
Less than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis · 1998
A sun-bleached, cocaine-dusted descent into the moral vacuum of 1980s Los Angeles.
- 02
Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis · 2006
A hallucinatory, metafictional descent into suburban dread where a writer's darkest creations bleed into his waking life.
- 03
Bad behavior
Mary Gaitskill · 1988
A raw, disenchanted plunge into the longing and angst of an urban fringe generation desperate for connection.
- 04
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
An intoxicating descent into the dark, obsessive underbelly of elite academia, where beauty and terror are inextricably linked.
- 05
Gossip Girl
Cecily von Ziegesar
A deliciously toxic, brand-name-dropping plunge into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's teenage elite.
- 06
Valley of the dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 1966
A glittering, pill-popping descent into the glamorous and ruthless underbelly of mid-century show business.
- 07
Exit to Eden
Anne Rice
A lush, unapologetic exploration of power, pleasure, and the vulnerability required to find true love at the edge of transgression.
- 08
A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin · 1953
A chilling, perfectly engineered trap of a novel that locks you inside the mind of a charming sociopath.
- 09
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, champagne-soaked tragedy about the hollow pursuit of an impossible past.
- 10
Bright lights, big city
Jay McInerney · 1992
A frantic, second-person plunge into the neon-lit exhaustion of urban excess and addiction.
- 11
Boy Meets Boy
David Levithan · 2006
A joyful, utopian queer rom-com that feels like a warm hug and a confetti cannon going off at the same time.
- 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.
