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.
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The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante
The Outsider
Colin Wilson
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
The Memory Police
YĆko Ogawa
The Woman in the Dunes
KĆbĆ Abe
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
El tĂșnel
Ernesto Sabato
The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat
A Breath of Life
Almond
Sohn Won-Pyung
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Trial
The Fall
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
Nausea
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
The Hour of the Star
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
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