Misanthropic Books

Can Veeky Forums recommend me some more books like this? With a cynical and misanthropic main character who you can sorta sympathize with?

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OP here, I'd like to add that these characters should be funny, nihilistic with a wicked sense of humour.

Journey to the End of the Night

Notes from the underground.

Pale Fire

>recommending a Doors song
Jim Morrison isn't misanthropic at all

Oh boy

Filth by Irvine Welsh. Really funny as well. Its about a psychopathic, misanthropic cop who basically fucks everybody's life up through manipulation, sex, and abuse. If you can get past the dialect, which is quite toned down for a Welsh novel, then you will surely enjoy it.

also really sad.

Do you guys think American Psycho was good?

my diary

Seen the movie, if the book is even half as good, it's gonna be great

Why is the hardcover so fucking expensive? Why is maintaining a cracked-spine-free zone such a monumental feat?

Americana by DeLillo almost feels like a prequel to American Psycho

All of Ellis's books are canon to each other and they all feature shitheads as the protagonists.

The Demon - Hubert Selby
Seven Days of Peter Crumb - Jonny Glynn
Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Georges Simenon
Sheepshagger - Niall Griffiths
Child Of God - Cormac McCarthy

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Maribou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh

Crime and punishment - Dostoievsky
The Perfume - Patrick Suskind

Kek, this guy isn't even OP. But w/e i guess

Kek

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The Outsider - HP Lovecraft
The Life Of A Stupid Man - Rynosuke Akutagawa
Notes From Underground - Dostoyevsky (but the narrator is also somewhat unsympathetic)

> Rynosuke Akutagawa
That reminds me...
In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami could also be said to be a part of this genre

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

So what's the skinny on American Psycho? I read it and took Bateman's murders and other actions literally but online people seem to think that it was all a figment of his imagination.

Is that true? Just how much was imagined? Also what was 'This is not an exit' all about at the end?

Eye Scream by Henry Rollins.

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Notes from the Underground
Against Nature
No Longer Human
anything by Nietzsche

Almost anything by Houellebecq.