In search of a few books where the good guy/side unequivocally loses, the ending is a total travesty, or the story is just a complete and total catastrophe
Any genre except romance or where the primary character is a child.
I never know whether to spoiler-tag this kind of response, but in the interest of . . . someone, here goes:
>!*All Good People Here* by Ashley Flowers!<
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy starts with the destruction of Earth and the death of almost everyone on it.
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*The Second Sleep* has this, but both the plot to get there and the “good side” itself are incredibly banal, at least in my opinion.
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A Fine Balance by Mistry
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You’ll like a lot of dystopia if this is you’re thing. Modern dystopias tend to have a more positive or ambiguous ending, but older ones tend to really drill in the tragedy.
Here’s what comes to mind:
– *1984*, of course
– *We* is fairly obscure but it’s what Orwell was inspired by for *1984*
– *Animal Farm* is (arguably) not dystopia but still in the same vein
– *Oryx and Crake* ends in an apocalypse where all but a few die.
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Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
I never know whether to spoiler-tag this kind of response, but in the interest of . . . someone, here goes:
>!*All Good People Here* by Ashley Flowers!<
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy starts with the destruction of Earth and the death of almost everyone on it.
*The Second Sleep* has this, but both the plot to get there and the “good side” itself are incredibly banal, at least in my opinion.
A Fine Balance by Mistry
You’ll like a lot of dystopia if this is you’re thing. Modern dystopias tend to have a more positive or ambiguous ending, but older ones tend to really drill in the tragedy.
Here’s what comes to mind:
– *1984*, of course
– *We* is fairly obscure but it’s what Orwell was inspired by for *1984*
– *Animal Farm* is (arguably) not dystopia but still in the same vein
– *Oryx and Crake* ends in an apocalypse where all but a few die.
The Grapes of Wrath