I’m losing faith in humankind. What should I read?

The atrocities in the Epstein files and utter lack of accountability from the elites of our world are destroying my worldview. I keep thinking to myself, "it shouldn't be like this", but then it is, and it only keeps getting worse. I don't understand how humans could descend to this level of depravity, and get away with it in today's world. How reality can be stranger, more evil, and more corrupt than fiction. I don't know how to make sense of it and I just feel lost and hopeless for the future.

So I'm now desperately looking to bury myself in books that could offer some perspective. History, philosophy, fiction, poetry, anything really. I'm open to most perspectives — nihilism, absurdism, unwavering faith in the goodness of the human spirit, taking down the rich, et cetera. I just want to occupy myself with learning so I have more tools & perspectives to think through whatever the fuck is going on, rather than sink deeper & deeper into my pessimism. Hopefully I'm not casting too abstract or too wide of a net here.