Bleakness Is My Weakness

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.

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created by teddydee

last updated August, 2026

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Hell yeah.

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Fantastic list and very interesting selection. I love the number of classics here. I'm ready to feel despair 🙂‍↕️

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😈 WELCOME TO MY DOOMSDAY CULT, AMANDA. More books still to come, etc

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Aw fuck, first the lobster cult and now this. Fuck it, I'm in now 💯🔥💯🔥

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Literal lol, thank u

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Very interesting list but seeing Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet here is a bit jarring because I was laughing hysterically while reading them

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Extremely fair, there's a lot of humor there! I don't remember where I got these recommendations although personally my sense of humor is dark and there's often a lot of overlap between the tragic and the comic for me... I have a black comedy list I'd love to expand as well

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