Most Depressing Books

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Something Happened - Joseph Heller
It's about a middle aged man with a teenage daughter who hates him, a young son who is too nice for his own good and gets treated like shit by everyone, and a mentally retarded son. Not to mention he doesn't love his wife anymore.

Suicide - Edouard Leve
The narrator talks to a dead friend who committed suicide 20 years before.

my diary desu

Mein Tagebuch, um ehrlich zu sein.

For a couple gut-punches:
The Sun Also Rises
The Sound and the Fury

Stoner.

There's a list of 'em on the wiki.

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i know, i have read most of the list, trying to find better slash more obscure ones

>most

I've heard a few things about this Author and it makes me afraid for my feels to read him.

by read i mean look at wikipedia summaries of course

journey to the end of night depressed me and made me laugh.

Here's the chart

I don't know why but the pigeon made me really sad

What pigeon?

The pigeon

Jude the Obscure.

Read So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell.

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The bank guards life would make anybody sad.
Oddly enough he didn't seem to realize it until pretty late in the book though.

I'm italian so I'm kind of biased but i really think you guys should read more XXIst century italian novels

But Elio Vittorini is not 21st century.

lol Veeky Forums has really dropped the ball on this

there was a comparable version a couple years ago that destroyed this one (a few overlaps tho)