# Requesting book recommendations - like these... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365 "2011-11-09T04:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/1 "2011-11-09T04:41:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/2 "2011-11-09T15:00:20Z")
I’m not sure if it’s quite like the books listed, but I found [Then We Came to the End](http://www.amazon.com/Then-We-Came-End-Novel/dp/B002B55XFE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320850559&sr=8-1) to be very quirky. I was hooked from the first line: We were fractious and overpaid. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/3 "2011-11-09T15:50:05Z")
_The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets_ by Eva Rice is about a couple of quirky families. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/4 "2011-11-09T15:53:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/5 "2011-11-09T18:39:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/6 "2011-11-09T19:31:46Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/7 "2011-11-09T19:41:49Z")
[John dies at the end](http://www.amazon.com/John-Dies-End-David-Wong/dp/0312659148/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320867659&sr=8-1) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/8 "2011-11-09T20:20:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/9 "2011-11-09T21:44:56Z")
_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 ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/10 "2011-11-09T21:46:39Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > I’m not sure if it’s quite like the books listed, but I found [Then We Came to the End](http://www.amazon.com/Then-We-Came-End-Novel/dp/B002B55XFE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320850559&sr=8-1) to be very quirky. I was hooked from the first line: > > We were fractious and overpaid. Great book! The “first person collective” POV is pulled off very well. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-book-recommendations-like-these/602365/11 "2011-11-09T22:27:55Z")
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.