They’re called newspapers! (I’ll see myself out… lol)
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A Little Life -Hanya Yanighara (pls read trigger warnings)
Between the Shads of Grey -Ruta Sepetys
Beekeeper of Aleppo- Christy Leftry
Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhoti Roy
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Swan song by Robert mccammon amazing book about nuclear holocaust and survival of the last humans very gruesome lots of death.
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The conspiracy against the human race by Thomas Ligotti. Its a nihilistic and kind of depressing look at human conciousness.
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“Sing, Wild Bird, Sing” by Jacqueline O’Mahony. You’ll want so desperately to help the protagonist as she struggles to live where one tragedy always follows another, but refuses to give up. Historical fiction.
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Nausea- Jean Paul Sartre
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The Rape of Nanking By: Iris Chang
The Painted Bird By: Jerzy Kosinski
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From what I’ve seen being recommended, anything by Cormac McCarthy. Also {{A Little Life}} and {{Earthlings}}.
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The House of The Dead, or Poor Folk, by Dostoyevsky
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Colin Wilson’s *Criminal History of Mankind* analyzed many of our worst moments as a species. It’s also an easy read, though not a shallow one.
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Misery by Stephen King
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Betty
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The Malazan series by Steven Erikson is 10 huge books of fantasy misery. One book has 3 separate genocides.
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The Gulag Archipelago- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Not the hardest one but slaughterhouse five has a lot of really shitty things happen the the main character that he shrugs off as he tries to cope
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The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
The Rain God! It’s short a dark!!!
[The Rain God](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452382)
They’re called newspapers! (I’ll see myself out… lol)
A Little Life -Hanya Yanighara (pls read trigger warnings)
Between the Shads of Grey -Ruta Sepetys
Beekeeper of Aleppo- Christy Leftry
Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhoti Roy
Swan song by Robert mccammon amazing book about nuclear holocaust and survival of the last humans very gruesome lots of death.
The conspiracy against the human race by Thomas Ligotti. Its a nihilistic and kind of depressing look at human conciousness.
“Sing, Wild Bird, Sing” by Jacqueline O’Mahony. You’ll want so desperately to help the protagonist as she struggles to live where one tragedy always follows another, but refuses to give up. Historical fiction.
Nausea- Jean Paul Sartre
The Rape of Nanking By: Iris Chang
The Painted Bird By: Jerzy Kosinski
From what I’ve seen being recommended, anything by Cormac McCarthy. Also {{A Little Life}} and {{Earthlings}}.
The House of The Dead, or Poor Folk, by Dostoyevsky
Colin Wilson’s *Criminal History of Mankind* analyzed many of our worst moments as a species. It’s also an easy read, though not a shallow one.
Misery by Stephen King
Betty
The Malazan series by Steven Erikson is 10 huge books of fantasy misery. One book has 3 separate genocides.
The Gulag Archipelago- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Not the hardest one but slaughterhouse five has a lot of really shitty things happen the the main character that he shrugs off as he tries to cope
A fine balance
“King Leopold’s Ghost” haunted me for years.
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
No Longer Human by Junji Ito