Books like 'ぼくらの☆ひかりクラブ 上'
Readers who enjoyed ぼくらの☆ひかりクラブ 上 by Usamaru Furuya & 古屋兎丸 also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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After the Fire by Will Hill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.Before, she lived inside the fence. Before, she was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything—and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible consequences... -
![Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine]()
Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsShe’s investigating a cold case no one else could—by going places no one else would dare.In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo... -
![4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane]()
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings4.48 Psychosis sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple, into the individual, and finally into the theatre of phychosis: the mind itself. This play was written in 1999 shortly before the playwright took her own life at age 28... -
![Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky]()
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIn Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and leisure by scoring a pound of uncut heroin... -
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![Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike]()
Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Let me tell you about the night I experienced true evil. It started with a gaze. She was eye fucking the shit out of me." Michael is at the tail end of his bachelor party vacation with his buddies and has had enough of all the gambling and flirtatious prostitutes. Then he meets Isabelle, a foreigner herself, and Michael is smitten. But even evil can come in a beautiful package... -
![The Monster of Hotel No. 7 by K.V. Rose]()
The Monster of Hotel No. 7 by K.V. Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLITTLE SUNI am the princess of Writhe, a secret society slithering with evil. But I have everything I could ever want… except him. Sullen Rule disappeared two years ago from Ritual Drive, our shared, private street. After sending off dozens of unanswered letters in hopes they may one day reach him, I have nearly given up on ever seeing the boy of shadows again. But one night at Hotel No... -
![Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh]()
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsBrace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting—the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr...Categorized as:
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![Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans]()
Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMurder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen birder somehow finds themself solving a murder mystery with their neighbor/fellow anime lover, all while falling for a cute girl from their birding group . . . and trying not to get murdered... -
![Tanners Dell by S.E. England, Sarah E. England]()
Tanners Dell by S.E. England, Sarah E. England
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing the hypnosis of violently disturbed psychiatric patient, Ruby Dean, an unholy dark force was unleashed on the medical staff who tried to help her. Now only one of the original team remains--Ward Sister, Becky. Despite her fianc�, D.I... -
![Devils Within by S.F. Henson]()
Devils Within by S.F. Henson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKilling isn’t supposed to be easy. But it is. It’s the after that’s hard to deal with.Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces—a prize for spilling blood for “the cause... -
![Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi]()
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAn extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side...Categorized as:
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![Bloodsport by Yves Olade]()
Bloodsport by Yves Olade
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingswe say sacrifice / we mean murder / our lips are red for a... -
![A Child for the Devil by Conrad Jones]()
A Child for the Devil by Conrad Jones
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Child for the Devil is a full length dark thriller based on the novella 'Nine Angels'. When the author Conrad Jones was asked to help the police with the investigation into a double murder by identifying occult symbols, which had been carved into the victims, he is plunged into a nightmare and forced to go on the run... -
![The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis]()
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city... -
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![The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Dr. Harper]()
The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Dr. Harper
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe devastating start to Dr. Harper's career.I wasn't always like this, you know - paranoid, temperamental, vindictive.I mean, sure, I've always been a bit... high strung. But I never used to stalk my therapist patients. Or yell at them. Or hold them captive in my garage.No, all of that started after the incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School.And I'm not talking about the school shooter... -
![Little One by Sarah A. Denzil, Claire Storey]()
Little One by Sarah A. Denzil, Claire Storey
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Take my hand, little one."Fran finds her standing by the swings. A little girl, Esther, no older than seven years old, by herself in the dead of night, her pretty but old-fashioned yellow dress covered in grass stains and her hair dishevelled. She says she's waiting for Father, and that strikes Fran as particularly odd... -
![The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima]()
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting and vivid portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto’s famous Golden Temple...Categorized as:
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![Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima]()
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRecognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan. Here nine of his finest stories, selected by Mishima himself, represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance... -
![The Night We Burned by S.F. Kosa]()
The Night We Burned by S.F. Kosa
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA new psychological thriller from suspense powerhouse S.F. Kosa featuring a decades-old secret, a mysterious cult fire, and a woman looking to outrun the ashes of her past...until they come roaring back once more.Dora is always aware of the line between fact and fiction. As a fact checker at an online magazine, her job depends on it. And as a woman outrunning her secrets, so does her life... -
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Guide by Dennis Cooper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else's hand; Mason has lurid fantasies about members of British pop bands; Sniffles is a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life... -
![Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk]()
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsShe's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists... -
![Deliver Me by Elle Nash]()
Deliver Me by Elle Nash
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“To read the work of Elle Nash is to be restored to faith in the wildness, wetness, and visceral power of contemporary American fiction. Deliver Me is a barbed liturgy of bugs, babies, meat, the gospel, women lusting women, women lusting men, and the human body. Get saved.” — MELISSA BRODER, author of Milk Fed , The Pisces , and Death Valley “.. -
![Obitelj s gornjeg kata by Lisa Jewell]()
Obitelj s gornjeg kata by Lisa Jewell
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am... -
![The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes]()
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA hard-hitting and hopeful story about the dangers of blind faith—and the power of having faith in yourself The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too... -
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![The Girl Before by Rena Olsen]()
The Girl Before by Rena Olsen
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn’t? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters... -
![Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams]()
Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true-or at least curiously and suspensefully possible-by the extraordinary skill with which he has wrung detail after detail out of a young woman who has lived with horror... -
![The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson]()
The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsPiper was raised in a cult. She just doesn't know it. Seventeen-year-old Piper knows that Father is a Prophet. Infallible. The chosen one.She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the-world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best.Until the day he doesn't... -
![Broken Glass by V.C. Andrews]()
Broken Glass by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis second gothic novel in the dark Mirror Sisters trilogy continues the tale of sisterly love at its absolute worst—from the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina (now Lifetime movies). For fans of Ruth Ware (In a Dark, Dark Wood) and Liane Moriarty (The Husband’s Secret).Sisters until the end... Which may come sooner than they think... -
![The Quiet Ones by Brandon Massey]()
The Quiet Ones by Brandon Massey
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom award-winning suspense author Brandon Massey comes a thrilling novel of buried secrets and stunning revelations... LOST Twenty-five years ago, a jealous ex-boyfriend murdered Mallory Steele's mother. With no close family to take in Mallory and her older sister, the girls became wards of the state--and were soon ripped apart, sent to live with different foster families... -
![The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver]()
The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue... -
![The Beach by Alex Garland]()
The Beach by Alex Garland
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsAfter discovering a seemingly Edenic paradise on an island in a Thai national park, Richard soon finds that since civilized behavior tends to dissolve without external restraints, the utopia is hard to maintain... -
![Strange Angels by Kathe Koja]()
Strange Angels by Kathe Koja
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrant, an ambitious photographer, is possessed by a young mental patient's strange drawings and becomes the disturbed young artist's confidant and guardian in a relationship that pushes Grant's own sanity to the edge. Reprint. LJ... -
![The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: and other stories by Robert Louis Stevenson]()
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: and other stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIncludes The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The pavilion on the links, A lodging for the night, Markheim, The sire de Maletroit's door, The suicide club, and The beach at Falesa... -
![The Writhing: A Horror Novel by Abe Moss]()
The Writhing: A Horror Novel by Abe Moss
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou never truly know your neighbors, or what goes on behind closed doors. Sometimes it's better not to. Sometimes the truth is downright haunting. Alex watches from her bedroom window as the small, secluded town of Amberton sleeps: a bright, pleasant town with a dark, disturbing secret. Helen, her foster mother, is gone all hours of the night with no explanation... -
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![The Disappearance of Katie Wren by Amy Cross]()
The Disappearance of Katie Wren by Amy Cross
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA girl goes missing in the heart of London. A mutilated body is pulled from the Thames. A mysterious house hides dark secrets, protected by the greatest power in the land. When her daughter Katie vanishes just a few days after arriving in London, Winifred Wren immediately heads to the city. Frantic with worry, she quickly finds herself stonewalled... -
![The Grey by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers]()
The Grey by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Ottway has found the job at the end of the world, working as a hunter for an oil-camp on the North Slope of Alaska. It's brutal, cold, and isolated, and there's little he needs to do but wait for the day when he has the courage to end his life, as he plans to, some day, "at a time to be determined... -
![মায়া-জাল by Neil D'Silva]()
মায়া-জাল by Neil D'Silva
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaya teaches Biology in a Mumbai school. She is a hit with her students for her unconventional teaching techniques such as bringing a dead man's heart to school to explain her lessons. But, though she seems ebullient on the outside, within her own heart she harbors the pain of a recently and mysteriously deceased husband... -
![Illusions of Evil by Lily White]()
Illusions of Evil by Lily White
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCONFESS. It's what he said to me across his altar, what he demanded so that I would be pure. In the moment he blessed me with his virtue, I was no longer the woman I'd once been. I was Eve. His light. His salvation. His bridge to Heaven's gate. I failed him because my faith was not strong enough. He punished me for not giving in. Resisting temptation is never easy... -
![The Hollows by Mark Edwards]()
The Hollows by Mark Edwards
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The House Guest comes a chilling story set deep in the woods…With his marriage over and his career in freefall, journalist Tom decides to reconnect with his fourteen-year-old daughter, Frankie. Desperate to spend precious time together now that they live an ocean apart, he brings her to Hollow Falls, a cabin resort deep in the woods of Maine... -
![Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.]()
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFew novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature... -
![Equus by Peter Shaffer]()
Equus by Peter Shaffer
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories intended for use at A Level. The complete, original text is accompanied by an introduction, activities for before, during and after study, as well as notes... -
![The Butchers' Blessing by Ruth Gilligan]()
The Butchers' Blessing by Ruth Gilligan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEvery year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter... -
![Lock Every Door by Riley Sager]()
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsNo visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings... -
![Period by Dennis Cooper]()
Period by Dennis Cooper
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe stunning conclusion to Dennis Cooper's five-book cycle, Period earned its author the accolade "a disquieting genius" by Vanity Fair and praise for his "elegant prose and literary lawlessness" by The New York Times... -
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![The Haunting of Styre House by Amy Cross]()
The Haunting of Styre House by Amy Cross
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAN ABANDONED ENGLISH COTTAGE... A BLACK CAT GLIMPSED IN SCORES OF OLD PHOTOS... A TERRIBLE MURDER, COVERED UP MANY YEARS AGO.When Parker and her mother move into Styre House, they immediately notice that something's not quite right. They have no key for the garage, and any time they try to get inside they end up distracted...Categorized as:
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![The Mirror House Girls by Faith Gardner]()
The Mirror House Girls by Faith Gardner
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn isolated compound. A so-called family. A collision course with unthinkable violence.When Winona rents a room at the eccentric Mirror House, she hopes to make new friends. What she gets instead is a “family” led by the charismatic psychologist Simon Spellmeyer.But if she wants to stay at Mirror House, Winona must join in following Simon’s strange protocols for self-improvement... -
![Tummempaa tuolla puolen by Kaj Korkea-aho]()
Tummempaa tuolla puolen by Kaj Korkea-aho
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKaj Korkea-ahon uusi romaani Tummempaa tuolla puolen on nerokas ja pelottava kirja pohjanmaalaisista lapsuudenystävistä, jotka joutuvat kohtaamaan menneen ja toisensa.Benjaminin kihlattu kuolee auto-onnettomuudessa, mutta valvontakameran kuvasta käy ilmi, ettei Sofie matkannut yksin... -
![No Time by Bonnie R. Paulson]()
No Time by Bonnie R. Paulson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll of humanity will get the virus. Who dies and who lives depends on her. Can Cady convince anyone that the virus to end all viruses is about to be released? Or will she have to quarantine her family and hope that at least their small haven will be spared? One loss, and then another and another bombard Cady and her small family and she realizes no one is safe...Categorized as:
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![The Red Knot by Monique Asher]()
The Red Knot by Monique Asher
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGripping, atmospheric, and off-putting, The Red Knot is the perfect blend of occult mystery and small-town horror.On a tiny, isolated island off the southern Alaskan coast, three girls have vanished without a trace, and Audra’s close friend—the island’s therapist—has been found murdered... -
![Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice]()
Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAnne Rice brings to life the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men...
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