My Idea of Fun

Humorous Literary Fiction

Author: Will Self

“High-energy, high-caloric prose. . . a wonderfully rich and wicked novel” ( The New York Times Book Review). Will Self’s first novel, about a man selling his soul to the devil, is violent, hilarious, outrageous, and, above all, completely original…..Read More

11 Books Similar to My Idea of Fun

Asterix and the Goths

Asterix and Obelix escort Getafix to the druids' annual conference in the Forest of the Carnutes. Little do they know that the Goths are lying in ambush, ready to kidnap… Continue Reading Posted in: Sequential Art

The Acid House

The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Libros en español, Manners And Customs, Short Stories

The Quantity Theory Of Insanity

What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because "somebody" has to? What if a mysterious tribe… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary British & Irish Literature, Fiction, Manners And Customs, Short Stories, Student Collection

Time’s Arrow

In Time's Arrow, the reader experiences the life of one Tod Friendly in reverse. Starting with his death, he leaves the hospital, grows healthier and younger, returns to his work… Continue Reading Posted in: 20th Century General Fiction, Black Humor (Literature), Fantasy Fiction

The Wasp Factory

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, Dark Humor, Fiction In English, Self-Help & Psychology Humor, Teenage Boys

Great Apes

Some people lose their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense of perspective in a most disturbing… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary British & Irish Literature, Fiction, Mental Illness, Primatology

Coin Locker Babies

A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young writers in the world today. Abandoned at birth in adjacent train station lockers, two troubled… Continue Reading Posted in: Abandoned Children, Bildungsromans, Suspense Thrillers

Down and Out in Paris and London

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Fiction, French Travel, Narration ã  La Premiã¨Re Personne, Travel

Crash

The cult status of Crash has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau… Continue Reading Posted in: English, English Fiction, Horror Literature & Fiction, Psychology, Science Fiction

London Fields

London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction.… Continue Reading Posted in: England London, Social Life And Customs, The English Novel In The 19th & 20th Centuries

How the Dead Live

In April 1988, 65-year-old Lily Bloom quickly succumbs to cancer in the Royal Ear Hospital. ("Where do they keep the Royal Ear, I wonder? I think of it as very… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Psychology, Terminally Ill

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