Books where apathy, disengagement, and idleness are central themes.
created by j.bateman
last updated August, 2026
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
King of Sloth
Ana Huang
Ruth
Kate Riley
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Pan
Michael Clune
One's Company
Ashley Hutson
The New Me
Halle Butler
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov
A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
This is the one I'm finding to be the most difficult, which is why I'm knocking it out now. I will happily take suggestions!
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