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Dirty Realism Books
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Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,945 ratings — published 1971
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 118,350 ratings — published 1982
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 86,009 ratings — published 1978
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 75,750 ratings — published 1975
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 39,315 ratings — published 1939
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.01 — 77,442 ratings — published 1981
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.24 — 40,104 ratings — published 1983
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,635 ratings — published 1973
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,664 ratings — published 1938
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,601 ratings — published 1992
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,723 ratings — published 1983
Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.67 — 44,076 ratings — published 1994
Hollywood (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 27,548 ratings — published 1989
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,706 ratings — published 1977
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 245,572 ratings — published 2005
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.15 — 218,383 ratings — published 1985
The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,015 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.18 — 641,250 ratings — published 1996
Canada (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.53 — 28,044 ratings — published 2012
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,999 ratings — published 1969
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,466 ratings — published 1976
The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.69 — 20,201 ratings — published 1986
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,726 ratings — published 1972
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.06 — 145,733 ratings — published 1992
Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,868 ratings — published
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 35,615 ratings — published 2002
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.11 — 178,553 ratings — published 1993
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,814 ratings — published 2001
Hot Water Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,187 ratings — published 1983
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 41,037 ratings — published 2011
Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,294 ratings — published 1939
Dirty Havana Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,998 ratings — published 1994
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,256 ratings — published 2008
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.11 — 65,148 ratings — published 1978
1933 Was a Bad Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,881 ratings — published 1985
This Boy's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.97 — 30,519 ratings — published 1989
Ray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,602 ratings — published 1980
Tree of Smoke (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.60 — 15,316 ratings — published 2004
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,231 ratings — published 1976
Caribou Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,579 ratings — published 2010
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,823,156 ratings — published 1937
Essential Bukowski: Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,178 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.47 — 782,332 ratings — published 2022
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,043 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,228 ratings — published 1953
Fay (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,150 ratings — published 2000
Joe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,718 ratings — published 1991
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,072 ratings — published 2006
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,106 ratings — published 1979
On Drinking (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,763 ratings — published 2019
“In this cell you are small. They’ve taken your belt and your shoelaces. You break a little. You put your hands over your face so they don’t see. They don’t listen when you shout for water, Please. Your tongue is so dry it feels too big for your mouth. You don’t sleep. Someone behind the door shouts BASTARDS BASTARDS. You think you can see an old man crouched and watching you in that dark corner over there. You try and make spit to drink but you can’t. In the morning they give you half a plastic cup of warm water. Across your tongue they drag a cotton bud which they drop into a plastic bag with your name on it. They take your fingerprints, your photograph, and then when you get home, she tells you she’s pregnant.”
― Billy and the Devil
― Billy and the Devil
“The bed lets out a slight gasp of air from the mattress like an old cat fart, but it looks like she’s too caught up in herself to notice.”
― Untethered
― Untethered
