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

[stephilly]

ETHAN FROME OMG AWFUL (was that Edith wharton? I think it must have been)
American Psycho, sort of.
Grapes of Wrath
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS

[dac]

where the red fern grows was sad??

[stephilly]

LOLZ are you being sarcastic?
It tears out your heart and stomps on it.

[hitsnarfle]

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon. I own it and have tried to read it twice but... it's so depressing! Imagine that!

[hitsnarfle]

Argh! Closing tag! CLOSING TAG!!

[dac]

:-) i forgive you.

[dac]

HI!! I've heard so many good things about this book, though!