I’m feeling depressed and want to read something darker as opposed to the usual biographies, histories, or like epic fantasy i regularly read lol. Thanks!
Anything by Cormac McCarthy. Child of God, Outer Dark, The Road, Blood Meridian, all pretty bleak.
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*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
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* *The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II* by Iris Chang.
* *Unit 731: Testimony* by Hal Gold.
* *The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution* by Henry Friedlander.
* *Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women* by Sarah Helm.
* *Night* by Elie Wiesel.
* *At Last the Truth About Eichmann’s Inferno Auschwitz* by Miklós Nyiszli.
* *Escape from Sobibor* by Richard Rashke.
* *Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl* by Anne Frank.
* *Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel* by Anatoly Kuznetsov (fictionalized memoir).
* *Bataan Death March: A Soldier’s Story* by James Bollich, CPL, 16th Bomb Squadron, 27th Bomb Group, U.S.A.A.F.
* *Bataan Death March: A Survivor’s Account* by William E. Dyess, LTC, 21st Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group, U.S.A.A.F.
* *Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath* by Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman.
* *Ray Parkin’s Wartime Trilogy:* *~~Out of the Smoke~~**; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom* by Ray Parkin, Chief Petty Officer, H.M.A.S. *Perth*, Royal Australian Navy.
* *The Prisoner and the Bomb* by Laurens van der Post, CPT, British Intelligence Corps.
* *Shobun: A Forgotten War Crime in the Pacific* by Michael J. Goodwin and Don Graydon.
* *Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II* *in the Pacific* by Gavan Daws.
* *The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes* by Edward Frederick Langley Russell.
* *Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.* by David Grann.
* *First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers* by Loung Ung.
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V E Schwab
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*An Exchange of Hostages* by Susan R Matthews (sci fi, slower-paced character study about a surgeon who is compelled to serve in the military as a torturer), *After World* by Debbie Urbanski (sci fi, on the precipice of extinction, humanity willingly kills itself to save the other species- the story follows the final living human and the horrors she’s endured), *Ill Will* by Dan Chaon (psychological suspense about loss, memory, and the Satanic Panic), *Geek Love* by Katherine Dunn (litfic? drama? about a fucked up family of ‘freak show’ circus performers.)
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Alchemized by SenLinYu. It’s a gothic/horror fantasy and has some pretty dark themes!
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Anything by Cormac McCarthy. Child of God, Outer Dark, The Road, Blood Meridian, all pretty bleak.
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
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* *The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II* by Iris Chang.
* *Unit 731: Testimony* by Hal Gold.
* *The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution* by Henry Friedlander.
* *Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women* by Sarah Helm.
* *Night* by Elie Wiesel.
* *At Last the Truth About Eichmann’s Inferno Auschwitz* by Miklós Nyiszli.
* *Escape from Sobibor* by Richard Rashke.
* *Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl* by Anne Frank.
* *Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel* by Anatoly Kuznetsov (fictionalized memoir).
* *Bataan Death March: A Soldier’s Story* by James Bollich, CPL, 16th Bomb Squadron, 27th Bomb Group, U.S.A.A.F.
* *Bataan Death March: A Survivor’s Account* by William E. Dyess, LTC, 21st Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group, U.S.A.A.F.
* *Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath* by Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman.
* *Ray Parkin’s Wartime Trilogy:* *~~Out of the Smoke~~**; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom* by Ray Parkin, Chief Petty Officer, H.M.A.S. *Perth*, Royal Australian Navy.
* *The Prisoner and the Bomb* by Laurens van der Post, CPT, British Intelligence Corps.
* *Shobun: A Forgotten War Crime in the Pacific* by Michael J. Goodwin and Don Graydon.
* *Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II* *in the Pacific* by Gavan Daws.
* *The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes* by Edward Frederick Langley Russell.
* *Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.* by David Grann.
* *First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers* by Loung Ung.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V E Schwab
*An Exchange of Hostages* by Susan R Matthews (sci fi, slower-paced character study about a surgeon who is compelled to serve in the military as a torturer), *After World* by Debbie Urbanski (sci fi, on the precipice of extinction, humanity willingly kills itself to save the other species- the story follows the final living human and the horrors she’s endured), *Ill Will* by Dan Chaon (psychological suspense about loss, memory, and the Satanic Panic), *Geek Love* by Katherine Dunn (litfic? drama? about a fucked up family of ‘freak show’ circus performers.)
Alchemized by SenLinYu. It’s a gothic/horror fantasy and has some pretty dark themes!
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
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