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. SebaldThe_Emigrants.jpg
 * Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
 * 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 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