Recs if you like Steppenwolf...

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!

a non-exhaustive collection of works

A collection of books that impacted the future of their own genre. ✨️please make recommendations✨️ (Picking emojis for this was hard)

Fixations and obsessions

: of, relating to, or suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings especially: having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality

Kafka’s books examine themes of anxiety, alienation, and the powerlessness of the individual. This list includes titles with similar subject matter.

capturing feelings of discontent, dissatisfaction, or existentialism one book at a time

A collection of books about people who are lost inside themselves. Alienated, detached, depressed, searching, unraveling or simply trying to figure out what the hell it means to be alive.

books on mental health that alleviate judgment and encourage empathy, sometimes with humor, sometimes with an allegorical plot, and mostly with immersive, insightful storytelling.

All books read by Tough Guy Book Club since 2014. The club that wants men to Read More, Talk More, and have more Friends.

here to make your brain cells tingle !! stories that unravel and take root in your mind as time goes on

For when you want to curl up with a sad story that'll quietly break your heart, but may also remind you how beautiful life can be.

Incomplete list of texts largely originally written in the German language considered foundational works of the 20th century, mostly by authors or expats from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and their antecedents. Partially personalized, naturally. Modernist/postmodernist; stylistically varied; weighed down by history, memory, and institutions; sometimes ironic, comic, or melancholic, or all three at once; atmospheric, psychological and/or philosophical. Pre/post-catastrophic humanism.

a list of books that left me with a really strong impression, so that I can vividly remember how I felt while reading them; cannot describe it in any other way but they left me with a feeling of strangeness

Books that kinda scratch the Pynchon itch. Pls suggest more

“I can fix you”

wenn wir uns selbst fehlen, fehlt uns doch alles.

books that live in my heart rent free.