If you loved
Books like Women
A booze-soaked, unapologetic stumble through the messy, tragicomic realities of late-in-life hedonism. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Women.
- gritty
- hazy
- chaotic
- sleazy
- melancholic
- 01
Factotum
Charles Bukowski
A beer-soaked, deadpan drift through the soul-crushing drudgery of mid-century American wage labor.
- 02
Hollywood
Charles Bukowski
A booze-soaked, deadpan stumble through the glittering, absurd machinery of the film industry.
- 03
You get so alone at times that it just makes sense
Bukowski
A late-night, whiskey-soaked meditation on the quiet absurdity and profound isolation of modern life.
- 04
La bâtarde
Violette Leduc · 1965
A feverish, unapologetic plunge into the depths of desire, shame, and the fierce pursuit of self-creation.
- 05
Henry and June
Anais Nin · 1986
An uncensored, deeply intimate plunge into a year of bohemian passion, sexual awakening, and tangled desires.
- 06
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
- 07
Choke
Chuck Palahniuk · 2001
A pitch-black, visceral plunge into modern alienation and the desperate, absurd lengths we go to for a scrap of human connection.
- 08
Memoirs of a Beatnik
Diane di Prima
A smoky, unapologetic plunge into the bohemian underground, fueled by female desire and artistic rebellion.
- 09
Reasons to live
Amy Hempel · 1985
A masterclass in saying everything by saying almost nothing, wrapping profound grief in sharp, brittle wit.
- 10
Slow days, fast company
Eve Babitz
A sun-drenched, martini-soaked love letter to the glamorous decay of 1970s Los Angeles.
- 11
The Game
Neil Strauss · 2005
A slick, neon-lit descent into a bizarre subculture of manipulation that ultimately reveals the hollow core of manufactured intimacy.
- 12
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion
A sun-bleached, razor-sharp descent into the hollow core of 1960s Hollywood and the fractured psyche of a woman with nothing left to lose.
