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Definitely Bret Easton Ellis. I have yet to read a book of his I don't like. I've been reading them in order. While they're not really a series, they do relate to one another tangentially. The first book he came out with was Less Than Zero (it's NOT like the movie at all), which was great, but I enjoyed his second book, Rules of Attraction, even more (that one is also not like the movie). Of course, his third book, American Psycho, is just awesome (and the movie is also more faithful to the book, if you enjoyed that one). And, of course, the list goes on. If you like Chuck Palahniuk, you should really check him out.
You might also like J.G. Ballard. His book Crash was made into a movie in the 1990's starring James Spader (NOT the 2000's movie about racism in LA). As Wikipedia puts it, "it is a story about car-crash sexual fetishism: its protagonists become sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car-crashes, often with real consequences." The book is also the inspiration for a great song called "Warm Leatherette" by The Normal.
Phillip K. Dick is pretty cool too, though a touch more in the sci-fi realm. It's trippy sci-fi though, because he was constantly high on drugs. Very interesting stuff. He wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which is the book that Blade Runner is based on. Total Recall and Minority Report are both based on short stories of his, though the stories are nothing like the movies. There are a few other movie bastardizations of his work, which I mention merely to point out how prolific he is, even if the movie adaptations aren't faithful at all. Oh, A Scanner Darkly is a book of his, and the movie adaptation of that is actually pretty decent.
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