Dark Character-Driven Fiction
Discover gripping dark character-driven fiction, from Chuck Palahniuk's Choke to The Wasp Factory. Explore psychological thrillers and twisted tales that define the genre.
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The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily Express".
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When I Was Five I Killed Myself
by Howard Buten
First published in France more than two decades ago, Buten's astonishing portrayal of childhood through the eyes of eight year-old Burton Rembrandt has become a revered classic of modern literature.
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Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow diners who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, offer him financial support.Meanwhile, he cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops and spends his days working at Colonial Dunsboro, where his stoner colleagues are sentenced to the stocks for any deviation from the colonial lifestyle. Oh, yeah, and he's desperate to find the truth of his paternity, which his addled mother suggests may be divine.