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If you loved The Beach

Books like The Beach

If you loved The Beach by Alex Garland, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh, Eric Lindor Fall

No. 2

The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks

No. 3

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

No. 4

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

No. 5

About a Boy

Nick Hornby

No. 6

The Crow Road

Iain Banks

No. 7

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

No. 8

Man and Boy (Harry Silver, #1)

Tony Parsons

No. 9

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman

No. 10

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

No. 11

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

No. 12

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

No. 13

Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernières

No. 14

Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

No. 15

Glue

Irvine Welsh

No. 16

1984

George Orwell

No. 17

Sleepers

Lorenzo Carcaterra

No. 18

The Rules of Attraction

Bret Easton Ellis

No. 19

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

No. 20

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

No. 21

The Basketball Diaries

Jim Carroll

No. 22

Animal Farm

George Orwell

No. 23

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

No. 24

Life of Pi

Yann Martel