Depressing Lit

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  • 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