49 books
—
2 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Dirty Realism Books
Showing 1-50 of 511
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 34 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,853 ratings — published 1971
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.13 — 124,185 ratings — published 1982
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.79 — 89,277 ratings — published 1978
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,481 ratings — published 1975
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,431 ratings — published 1939
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.99 — 82,598 ratings — published 1981
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.24 — 42,246 ratings — published 1983
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,951 ratings — published 1973
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,325 ratings — published 1938
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 43,731 ratings — published 1992
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,786 ratings — published 1983
Pulp (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.67 — 45,895 ratings — published 1994
Hollywood (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 28,646 ratings — published 1989
Love is a dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,176 ratings — published 1977
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 273,343 ratings — published 2005
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 251,363 ratings — published 1985
The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,372 ratings — published 1985
The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.69 — 20,721 ratings — published 1986
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.18 — 668,080 ratings — published 1996
Canada (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.53 — 28,514 ratings — published 2012
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,715 ratings — published 1969
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.19 — 20,305 ratings — published 1976
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,153 ratings — published 1972
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.07 — 158,613 ratings — published 1992
Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,127 ratings — published 1982
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,989 ratings — published 2002
Dirty Havana Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,223 ratings — published 1994
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 187,228 ratings — published 1993
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.71 — 225,404 ratings — published 2001
Hot Water Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 16,652 ratings — published 1983
This Boy's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,177 ratings — published 1989
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 44,811 ratings — published 2011
Tropic of Capricorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,892 ratings — published 1939
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,927 ratings — published 2008
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 70,487 ratings — published 1978
1933 Was a Bad Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,048 ratings — published 1985
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.55 — 138,644 ratings — published 2015
Ray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,670 ratings — published 1980
Tree of Smoke (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.61 — 16,395 ratings — published 2004
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,632 ratings — published 1976
Caribou Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,692 ratings — published 2010
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,976,984 ratings — published 1937
Essential Bukowski: Poetry ― A Poetry Collection of Raw and Funny Verse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,391 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.46 — 929,303 ratings — published 2022
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,740 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,192 ratings — published 1953
Fay (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,225 ratings — published 2000
Joe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,882 ratings — published 1991
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,194 ratings — published 2006
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,573 ratings — published 1979
“I’m too big of a fan of sin and debauchery to be a Christian.”
― Inappropriate
― Inappropriate
“There are two types of men when it comes to approaching lone pretty women in bars. The shit type and the don’t-have-the-balls-to-be-a-shit jealous type, and I was the latter and in situations like this the prey becomes the hunter and it’s all just an under-stocked meat market trading in egos, tits and shame.”
― Untethered
― Untethered
