Depressing Books

[dac]

Please list some depressing books (so I can stay the heck away from them). I'll start:

Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Something Happened, Joseph Heller
The Outsider, Richard Wright (not to be confused with The Stranger, Albert Camus)

Comments

[dac]

And a great song!

[kingtycoon]

Nonfiction histories involving the 20th century.

[dac]

Could you give at least one example, please ? Anything you've read recently?

it could fill a book :(

[nexusogoo]

Racist epithets written on the stalls of high school bathrooms.

Re: it could fill a book :(

[dac]

Life is depressing, sometimes.

[decafdyke]

The Well of Loneliness
Any nonfiction about the Bush administration
Any financial planning book (but wait, I don't think you have student loan horrors like I do, that might be okay for you)

[dac]

Anything non-fiction involving money or food depresses me. Thankfully, I don't have studen loans, but my lack of having really accomplished anything significant in light of that fact makes me angry at myself...but that's another story...

[proko5]

Becoming a Man - Half a Life Story, by Paul Monette
Prozac Nation, by Elizabeth Wurtzel (didn't make it through the whole thing)

[dac]

Finish Prozac Nation; it has a happy ending (or see the movie)