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I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Given a temporary human life, the Devil sets out to savor mortal vices—and maybe write the ultimate memoir. Darkly funny and disarmingly tender, I, Lucifer turns temptation into a razor-sharp character study of sin, choice, and the messy business of being human.
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... a gleefully amoral demon’s intimate, first-person voice dissecting temptation and theology?
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
If living inside Lucifer’s head as he joyrides in Declan Gunn’s body—mocking Eden, sparring with angels, and turning London into a playground of sin—was your sweet spot, you’ll love the acid civility of Screwtape coaching his nephew Wormwood on how to corrupt a soul. Like Lucifer’s riffs on the Fall and free will in I, Lucifer, these letters turn doctrine into razor-edged comedy, with set pieces (the patient’s church habits, wartime anxieties) that make damnation feel wickedly personal.
... blasphemous, mordant satire where the Devil crashes a modern city to wreak havoc with wit?
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
If Lucifer’s month-long London spree—snorting, seducing, and storytelling while dropping incendiary asides about Christ and Job—made you cackle, you’ll savor Woland’s visit to Moscow. His magic shows, bureaucratic humiliations, and that unforgettable ball rival Lucifer’s Soho escapades for audacity. Like I, Lucifer, it blends theological mischief with laugh-out-loud set pieces and a tender, surprising human core.
... a charmingly deceitful, reality-warping confessional where the narrator’s truth keeps slipping?
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
If you enjoyed being seduced and misled by Lucifer’s slick confessionals—the way he rewrites his own myth while inhabiting Declan Gunn—you’ll revel in O’Brien’s nameless narrator, whose tale of murder, bicycles, and impossible policemen keeps tilting beneath your feet. It delivers the same intoxicating blend of comic voice and philosophical unease that made I, Lucifer’s testimony so deliciously suspect.
... irreverent play with angels, demons, and apocalypse lore grounded in human foibles?
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
If Lucifer’s theological stand-up—his sniping about Heaven’s bureaucracy, backstories of Eden and Job, and wry takes on salvation—hooked you, you’ll click with Aziraphale and Crowley’s scheme to avert Armageddon. Like I, Lucifer, it turns scripture into sharp, humane comedy, swapping Lucifer’s solo riffs for an odd-couple dynamic that still nails the big questions while keeping the jokes heavenly.
... book-within-a-book devilry and literary games about manuscripts that may summon the Devil?
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
If the sly mirror-play of Declan Gunn (a wink at the author) and Lucifer’s plan to pen a bestseller tickled you, this bibliophilic mystery will, too. Rare-book hunter Lucas Corso chases a text rumored to call up the Devil, and the narrative toys with authorship, forgery, and story-as-sorcery—echoing I, Lucifer’s self-aware flirting with creation, performance, and the lies we tell on the page.
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