I really enjoy melancholy and depressing music. It gives me frisson/goosebumps and I feel a sense of connection when I hear it. My girlfriend jokes that the books I like are all “sad-core man” books, whatever that means.
Books I’ve read that might have the same vibe:
– No Longer Human
– Into the Wild
– The Basketball Diaries
– The Brothers Karamazov
– Dharma Bums
– Currently reading “Perfume” and enjoying
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Prince of Tides
Huh, not really my thing but the Night Lords Trilogy is pretty much a sci-fi greek tragedy set in space…except it’s after the fall.
It is set in WH40k, so if that’s a turn-off for you then maybe not. I went in with no knowledge of the setting, though, and the author explains most of it pretty well.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ooh ooh! Basically any of Patrick Dewitt’s books (Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, The Sisters Brothers, Undermajordomo Minor, French Exit, and most recently, The Librarianist.)
I’d also *highly* recommend Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, particularly the story *Move Across the Country*
Ones I think of and may more or less fit the description:
– Crime and Punishment, by Dostoievsky;
– The Razor’s Edge, by Somerset Maugham;
– Demian, by Hermann Hesse;
– Plantation Boy, by José Lins do Rêgo (a brazilian author, I read in Portuguese but there’s an English version).
I liked your post, gave me recommendations for myself! 🙌