Recs if you like Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You...

"What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight." — Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Fiction that embodies the experience of being Midwestern and full of big feelings: depression, yearning, being lost in a cornfield

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!

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Whether you know what the book is about or not, some titles hit like a punch to the gut.

Fiction with LGBTQ characters or themes, published for teens between 1990 and 2009.