18 books like Breakfast of Champions

What to read after Breakfast of Champions — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie Sigmund Freud · 1905 · ★ 3.6 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The traditional story about the historical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis implies that the Oedipus complex was part of Freudian theory from the very beginning. However, in this first edition of Three Essays on Sexuality, first published in 1905 and never before translated into English, we find no reference whatsoever to the Oedipus complex. Is there a Freudian psychoanalysis that is not… Shares: Sexuality, Sex

Terms of Service Tina Horn · 2021 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Popular creator TINA HORN continues her cyberpunk thriller SFSX (SAFE SEX), teaming up with up-and-coming artist G. ROMERO-JOHNSTON for the latest volume of this sexy adventure comic. After their previous adventures in sex, love, and torture left them separated and traumatized, the Dirty Mind heroes must face the totalitarian Party’s latest "social program"—one involving uncanny sexpots and a… Shares: Sexuality, Sex

Sexuality (Key Ideas) Jeffrey Weeks · 1986 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Sexuality is the fifth revised and updated edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality. This new edition brings the arguments and evidence fully up to date and explores their implication for many topical controversies, around LGBTQ+ rights, the trans experience and gender fluidity, same-sex marriage, sexual autonomy and consent, and the meanings of sexual choice.Since it was… Shares: Sexuality, Sex

Galápagos Kurt Vonnegut · 1820 · ★ 3.9 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The ghost of a shipbuilder tells the story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands. Shares: Satire, Humorous stories, Science Fiction

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury · 1953 · ★ 4.0 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns": the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag,… Shares: Satire, Drama, Science Fiction

The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut · 1959 · ★ 4.2 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "His best book," Esquire wrote of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, adding, "he dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." This novel fits into that aspect of the Vonnegut canon that might be classified as science fiction, a quality that once led Time to describe Vonnegut as "George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into… Shares: Mental illness, Classic Literature, Science Fiction

Transmetropolitan Vol. 1 Darick Robertson · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 72p · ≈ 2h · Moderate DC's new editions of TRANSMETROPOLITAN begin here, with this volume collecting issues #1-6 of the acclaimed Vertigo series from writer Warren Ellis and artist Darick Robertson! After years of selfimposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job he hates and a city he loathes. Working as an investigative… Shares: Sex, Satire, Science Fiction

Adrian Mole Sue Townsend · 1999 · ★ 4.5 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate He's back. Aged 30¼. Twenty-first century Mole. Now in his thirties, Adrian's still worrying: Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy? Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as a celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate novelist? Is there a place for Adrian Mole in Blair's Brave New Britain? 'Thank goodness for his… Shares: Satire, Humorous fiction, Humorous stories

Dark Matter Blake Crouch · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his… Shares: Reality, Science Fiction

Le Deuxième Sexe Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 728p · ≈ 24h · Challenging The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. She published the work in two volumes: Facts and Myths (Les faits et les mythes), and Lived Experience (L’expérience vécue).… Shares: Sexuality, Sex

Redshirts John Scalzi · 2012 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2)… Shares: Satire, Science Fiction

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares: Drama

The Long Haul Jeff Kinney · 2014 · ★ 4.3 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun... Unless, of course, you’re the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig — not exactly Greg Heffley’s idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure — and this is one the Heffleys won’t soon… Shares: Humorous fiction, Humorous stories, Drama

My Secret Life Walter · 1966 · ★ 4.5 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A rare look at the hidden side of Victorian lifeFrom his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his "amatory career," an adventurous Victorian known only as "Walter" records a breathtaking carnal epic through hundreds of sexual encounters during an era of notorious repression. Shares: Sex, Classic Literature

Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster · 1920 · ★ 3.6 · 131p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott. Lilia falls passionately in love with the country, and also with a young Italian man. Her decision to remain in Italy enrages her dead husband's family, who send her brother-in-law to fetch her back. Shares: Satire, Humorous stories, Classic Literature

Továrna na absolutno Karel Čapek · 1922 · ★ 4.6 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Czech writer Karel Čapek wrote his novel Továrna na absolutno in 1922. It was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1927 as The Absolute at Large. The novel is a satirical piece of science fiction, and starts with the invention of an “atomic engine” in the future year 1943 which can convert matter directly into energy. Such engines can operate machinery for months from a… Shares: Satire, Science Fiction

Neon Genesis Evangelion Fumino Hayashi · 2006 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shinji Ikrari's a typical Tokyo teenager, with a pushy pal, and surrounded by the usual band of high school goofballs. Until, that is, he meets a strange new girl and his dreams start being haunted by a robotic "other." Shares: Humorous fiction, Humorous stories

Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut · 1963 · ★ 4.4 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's… Shares: Satire, Classic Literature, Science Fiction

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