Books about aimless and discontented white men in (mostly) middle age

In response to a discussion about the male-focused publisher, I promised to make a list in the comment section for u/DM_me_goth_tiddies. The post was locked, so here it is:

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
• revolutionary road by Richard yates (in fairness, there's a woman as a second protagonist)
• Herzog by Saul Bellow
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (more of an ensemble, but three out of five are disgruntled men iirc)
• Stoner by John Williams (like a lot of academic fiction, the main character is a white male professor. I tend to read campus novels about students, but if you poke around more this is a good place to look)
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth (another prof!)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (read this recently on my Booker read-through.)
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• White Noise by Don DeLillo

Admittedly, lots of these are from the 20th century, but I tend to read older novels. I only included litfic, but if you're eager to read books with white male protagonists then genre fiction is a good place to look. Legal thrillers, police procedurals, detective mysteries, most sci fi and adventure books, etc.

Sorry this took so long. I do not maintain a Goodreads account and keep no record of the books I read beyond the occasional mention in a journal or message to a friend. I like to forget because things are so delightful when they're new.

As an aside – I understand the desire to read books about people like you. I LOVE black female literature. However, this list could be a lot longer if I wasn't focusing on just white men. There's so many books with this exact mid-life crisis vibe about all sorts of people that I'm sure you could see yourself in. Part of the fun of reading is the universality of it all, like how a 13 year old me was convinced that Salinger had peered into my head from 60-70 years in the past to carve out Holden.

[Please don't take this as snarky, or as an invite to lament the loss of white male prominence or whatever it is.]