Can you suggest me a book that will make me question life and humanity all together, books that are sad and desperate. I feel like I haven’t found a good book in ages and I keep seeing tiktok recommendations everywhere … so please no tiktok recommendations.
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A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Sorrows of Werther by Goethe
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler is kind of a low-key sad book about life grinding you down, almost achieving happiness but things don’t quite work out, the pettiness of sibling relationships. I read it ten years ago and still think about it. Tragic in a very realistic, it happens to everyone kind of way.
Stoner by John Williams.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Journey to the End of the Night -Celine
A bitter, hateful, angry, misanthropic, sad, and depressing rant against humanity written by a GIANT asshole.
I found This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno to be incredibly sad and desperate. It’s about a man whose wife was killed for seemingly no reason and is literally haunted by his grief. My biggest fear is also my spouse dying so it really hit me.
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart