Is there any book you have read that deal with the complexity of humanity, and looks with compassion a whole cast of characters (if there’s diversity, it’s better). Characters who don’t love themselves or who are cruel, are particularly interesting to me.
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Every single book by Dostoyevsky
the unbearable lightness of being
stoner
no longer human
the brothers karamazov
Jayber Crowe by Wendell Berry
Anything by James McBride, but especially Deacon King Kong and Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Anything by Emily St John Mandel, but especially Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans for SURE
Things by Louise Erdrich, Ann Patchett, Barbara Kingsolver, George Saunders?
Thomas Burgenthal “A Lucky Child”
A man’s search for himself
Non fiction but The Anthroposcene Reviewed by John Green might be up your alley. One of the only books that has made me literally laugh out and cry
Half-Drawn Boy has romance elements, but it has some extremely interesting prose about the human condition. It’s extremely diverse, and there are many characters who find it difficult to love themselves.
Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido. There’s really no diversity but great and interesting characters. There are some darker themes but it’s dealt with irreverently and unapologeticly
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Devin
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Add another Redditor commented recently, it’s the quintessential book on addiction / trauma / human condition.