Depressing Lit

• Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
• To Live by Yu Hua
• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
• The Maimed by Hermann Ungar
• This Business of Living by Cesare Pavese
• On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Junger
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCulelrs
• Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
• The Trouble with Being Born by E.M. Cioran
• Ask the Dust by John Fante
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Death on the Installment Plan by Celine
• The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
• Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
• 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
• The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
• Will O'The Wisp by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
• Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic
• Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
• Hunger by Knut Hamsun
• Stoner by John Williams
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

  

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav Klima
• Who Will Run Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
• Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
• Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
• The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
• On the Heights of Despair by E.M. Cioran
• The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
• The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
• Germinal by Emile Zola
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
• The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov
• Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
• If This is a Man by Primo Levi
• Mouchette by Georges Bernanos
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy