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    (Please suggest something new, these books have already been read :))

    the perks of being a wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid

    A Certain Hunger – Summers

    My year of rest and relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh

    So sad today – Melissa Broder

    The New Me – Halle Butler

    Milk Fed – Melissa Broder

    Rest and be thankful – Emma Glass

    The girls – Emma Cline

    Let’s go play at the adams – Mendal W. Johnson

    Big Swiss – Jen Beagin

    Her name in the sky – Kelly Quindlen

    Daughter of the moon goddess – Sue Lynn Tan

    The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa

    Cursed Bunny – Bora Chung

    Convenience store woman – Sayaka Murata

    The Road – Cormac McCarthy

    The Mermaid the witch and the sea – Tokuda Hall

    Turtles all the way down – John Green

    Klara and the sun – Kazuo Ishiguro

    I’m thinking of ending things – Lain Reid

    I’m glad my mom died – Jennette McCurdy

    Things have gotten worse since we last spoke and other misfortunes – Eric LaRocca

    Yerba Buena – Nina Lacour

    Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto

    A good girls guide to murder – Holly Jackson

    Last night and the Telegraph club – Malinda Lo

    Pure Color – Sheila Heti

    Writers and lovers – Lily King

    Animal – Lisa Taddeo

    Ariel – Sylvia Plath

    She Drives me crazy – Quindlen

    Mooncakes – Xu Walker Gil

    Written in the stars – Alexandria Bellefleur

    One of us is lying – Karenm McManus

    My dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell

    Queen of Coin and Whispers – Helen Corcoran

    The dark tide – Alicia Jasinska

    Huntress – Malinda Lo

    Sweet and bitter magic – Tooley

    Gearbreakers – Mikuta

    The deathless girls – Kiran Millwood

    Cinderella is dead – Bayron

    The dead and the dark – Courtney Gould

    Malice – Heather Walter

    The faithless – C.L Clark

    The unbroken – C. L Clark

    The oleander sword – Tasha Suri

    The Jasmine Throne – Tasha Suri

    Girls of storm and shadow – Natasha Ngan

    Girls of paper and fire – Natasha Ngan

    Iron heart – Varela

    Crier’s War – Varela

    The Hollow Heart – Marie Rutkoski

    The midnight lie – Rutkoski

    A day of fallen night – Samantha Shannon

    The priory of the orange tree – Samantha Shannon

    All American Boys – Reynolds

    This is where it ends – Marieke Nijkamp

    Please look after mother – Kyung-sook Shin

    Paradise Rot – Jenny Hval

    Her body and other parties – Machado

    The silent patient – Alex Michaelides

    Black swans – Eve Babitz

    The henna wars – Adiba Jaigirdar

    No longer human – Osamu Dazai

    This is how you lose the time war – Amal

    The Midnight Library – Matt Haig

    The Virgin Suicides – Jeffery Eugenides

    Before the coffee gets cold – Toshirazu Rawaguchi

    Hani and Ishu’s guide to fake dating – Adiba Jaigirdar

    She gets the girl – Lippincott

    One last stop – Casey McQuiston

    Girl in pieces – Kathleen Glasgow

    Suicide notes – Ford

    Sharp objects – Gillian Flynn

    Crying in H mart – Michelle Zauner

    Real World – Natsuo Kirino

    Death in her hands – Ottessa Moshfegh

    The great gataby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

    In the miso soup – Ryu Murakami

    The pieces – Melissa Broden

    Girl, interrupted – Susanna Kaysen

    Tender is the flesh – Agustina Bazterrica

    Jillian – Halle Butler

    Lapvona – Ottessa Moshfegh

    The bell jar – Sylvia Plath

    Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

    The Catcher and the Rye

    Speak – Anderson

    Eileen – Ottessa Moshfegh

    Come Closer – Sara Gran

    Tell Me I’m Worthless – Alison Rumfitt

    Bunny – Mona Awad

    Homesick for another world – Ottessa Moshfegh

    Diary of an oxygen thief – anonymous

    Nobody, somebody, anybody – Kelly McClorey

    Nightbitch – Rachel Yoder

    Acts of service – Lillian Fishman

    Woman, Eating – Claire Kohda

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    23 Comments

    1. mybuttonsbutton on

      + Animal (novel) or Ghost Lover (stories) by Lisa Taddeo; No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood; Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill; Chronology of Water (memoir) by Lidia Yukanovich; Dyscalculia by Camonghne Felix

    2. **It’s Kind of a Funny Story!** My fav book as a depressed teen – so relatable.

      For something happier/cozier, **The House in the Cerulean Sea**.

      For general YA, **Darius the Great is Not Okay** is great!

    3. hollygolightly1990 on

      I’ve recommended it before but Smash: A Story of A Drunken Girlhood by Zailckas.

      Others are The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and Love is a Mixed Tape by Rob Sheffield.

    4. Never Let Me Go, The Secret History, more Haruki Murakami, maybe Paint it Black by Janet Fitch, Checkout 19

    5. Go Ask Alice

      The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

      A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

    6. I would suggest looking into Janet Fitch- White Oleander and Paint it Black.
      I read these books like 17 years ago. I can’t remember all the main parts, but they made an impression on younger me.
      Also- John Irving, I particularly love the World According to Garp and Cider House Rules

    7. loonybaloonie on

      Don’t you forget about me
      Fried green tomatoes
      How to kill men and get away with it
      Poppy war
      All Jane Austen
      Kristen the daughter of Lawrence
      Terry Pratchett books
      Idk if you are into mangas? They have been my salvation.

      Tbh I am Russian and had to read a lot of Russian classics during school. If you want some real bleak stuff you could try it 😀 but be ready for some deep drama and patriarchy. And really long sentences.

    8. Did you like daughter of the moon goddess?

      If so check out A Magic Steeped in Poison and The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

      Couple others you might like based on this list:
      Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

    9. We like a lot of the same books! What did you think of Evelyn Hugo? TJR has another amazing book, Daisy Jones and the Six that I highly highly recommend. The rest of her books aren’t worth it.

      Books like sharp objects and gone girl – slow burning fire by Paula Hawkins, luckiest girl alive, the nothing man by Catherine Ryan Howard.

      Feel good books – I love Marian Keyes and started reading her books as a teen – sushi for beginners and last chance saloon. But my absolute favourite is Rachels holiday – she’s a depressed in denial addict whose “holiday” is rehab.

      I’m currently on a Stephen king binge – Misery is overall the best book I’ve read this year. Just finished the green mile, which I loved and next is pet sematary.

    10. When I was a depressed teen I loved:

      Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

      Winter of Fire or Tanith or Rocco by Sherryl Jordan

      Bound Feet and Western Dress by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang

    11. Convenience Store Woman or any other stories where misfits are the protagonist. I love this one because as a teen, I always felt like an outsider and I wish I would have had more stories about well-written misfits who are happy with their misfittin’.

    12. • Looking for Alaska – John Green

      • Pretty Things – Sarra Manning

      • Candy – Kevin Brooks

      • A List of Cages – Robin Roe

      • My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell

      • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mike Haddon

      • Identical – Ellen Hopkins (all her books are great but this was my favorite)

      • Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli

      • The Giver – Lois Lowry

      • The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls

    13. unlovelyladybartleby on

      Happiness by Will Ferguson. It’s not actually about happiness, the plot is the world’s most depressed man editing self help books. Incredibly depressing and hilarious

    14. thecornerihaunt on

      So I haven’t read anything on your list but I can try to suggest some books I’ve read. I’ve had depression almost my whole life.

      A mango shaped space

      The Divergent trilogy

      The Glass Castle

      Hadley and Grace

      Book Thief

      Anne of Green Gables

      Alicia: My story(holocaust survivor memoir)

      I haven’t read it yet but I hear the Giver is really good

      I liked the twilight series

    15. {{Emergency Contact by Mary H K Choi}}

      It’s a love or hate type of book, but I think you’ll love it.

    16. icanneverthinkofone1 on

      Alone by Megan freeman. It’s a novel in verse and it’s a really beautiful story about human ingenuity, cleverness, and hope under REALLY bad circumstances.

    17. *needlework* – deirdre sullivan

      *the seas* – samantha hunt

      *lullabies for little criminals* – heather o’neill

      *the girl with borrowed wings* – rinsai rossetti (this one may be a good fit bc it’s a nice mix of sad girl and fantasy romance vibes. plus it’s got some darkness, but is overall hopeful)

      *sadie* – courtney summers

      *play it as it lays* – joan didion

      *a thousand nights* – e.k. johnston

      *among other things, I’ve taken up smoking* – aoibheann sweeney

      *girlchild* – tupelo hassman

      *a tale for the time being* – ruth ozeki

      also, agreed with others about *white oleander*. that was my first thought when reading this list

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