Recs if you like Lord Jim...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor

List of classics for those interested in the genre.

Adding books that are mentioned in Matilda by Roald Dahl