Maybe Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado or Dark Neighborhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi
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Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Malloy by Samuel Becket
Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sputnik Sweet Heart by Haruki Murakami
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Camille The Lady of the Camillias by Alexandre Dumas fils
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
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Sci-fi:
“The Dark Beyond the Stars” by Frank M. Robinson is just. . . depressing. It’s about an intergenerational space ship tasked with finding life on other planets, and it just isn’t. working. out.
Lots of meditations on hopelessness, isolation, and pointlessness.
The writer was actually Harvey Milk’s chosen successor, I think the experience of being a gay man in the 70’s-80’s left him with a higher-than-average tolerance for depressing shit.
Blackgirlmagical on
The Prettiest Star By Carter Sickels
My Year of Rest and Relaxation By Ottessa Moshfegh
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The Brothers Bishop by Bart Yates (might want to check the content warnings for this one, though)
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Maybe Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado or Dark Neighborhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Malloy by Samuel Becket
Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sputnik Sweet Heart by Haruki Murakami
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Camille The Lady of the Camillias by Alexandre Dumas fils
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Sci-fi:
“The Dark Beyond the Stars” by Frank M. Robinson is just. . . depressing. It’s about an intergenerational space ship tasked with finding life on other planets, and it just isn’t. working. out.
Lots of meditations on hopelessness, isolation, and pointlessness.
The writer was actually Harvey Milk’s chosen successor, I think the experience of being a gay man in the 70’s-80’s left him with a higher-than-average tolerance for depressing shit.
The Prettiest Star By Carter Sickels
My Year of Rest and Relaxation By Ottessa Moshfegh
The Brothers Bishop by Bart Yates (might want to check the content warnings for this one, though)