Recs if you like The Complete Stories...

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

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!

Comedic fiction with characters who way, waaaaaaaay overthink it. The humor is offbeat, the prose is precise, the spirals are spiraling... A total nervous breakdown can't be far behind...

Are you, too, an inappropriate laugher? Check out my list Pitch Black Comedy!

"Turn me over, I'm done on this side!" —St. Lawrence, whilst roasting on a spit

Gallows humor, black comedy, l'humour noir — whatever you call it, this is the place for it. This list includes André Breton's seminal anthology of dark humor, a number of the works excerpted in this anthology, and beyond. You can find a link to the complete contents of Breton's anthology in the comments.

Want more weird humor? Check out my list Nitpicky Neuroticism (Comedy Edition)!

Books that are not conventional; whether ergodic, esoteric, weird, before-its-time, fever-dreamy, or any combination of these

Books that kinda scratch the Pynchon itch. Pls suggest more