Three fiction books I really like are:
The Catcher In The Rye
The Cheese Monkeys
Fight Club
I’m looking for more quirky, first person novels. All suggestions appreciated.
I’m not sure if it’s quite like the books listed, but I found Then We Came to the End to be very quirky. I was hooked from the first line:
We were fractious and overpaid.
The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice is about a couple of quirky families.
If you like Fight Club, have you read anything else by Chuck Pahalniuk? I particularly enjoyed Choke. It’s not a pretty story by any means, but it’s a good read.
Edwin Mullhouse: The LIfe and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright, which despite the title is by Steven Millhauser. It’s quirky and brilliant.
Something quirkier (and funnier) is Death by Sheer Torture, by Robert Barnard.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is a quirky first-person novel. I didn’t like it that much myself but a lot of people did and it won a Pulitzer.
The suggestions so far look great, thanks. I checked the reviews online.
Yes, olivesmarch4th, I have read other CP novels. I’m half way through Survivor right now.
Headed off to Amazon. Keep 'em coming.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Great book! The “first person collective” POV is pulled off very well.
My favorite weird, first-person novel is Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea. The narrator is a ridiculous, sympathetic, deluisional asshole, and the book is worth reading for his desciptions of his crazy meals alone.