Recs if you like Hour of the Star...

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

Subdued melancholy or self-inflicted tragedy for when you want to feel like a martyr

Only including the following publishers: NYRB, Norton Critical, Penguin Modern, Pantheon, Penguin Classics, Oxford World's Classic, Vintage, Picador Paper, New Directions, McNally, Fitzcarraldo, Seven Stories, Very Short Introductions, Knopf, and Charco Press.