Please recommend a book that will completely destroy me. Maybe something about mental health and trauma, or abusive love. I like some of Kafka's and Haruki Murakami's books. I was really impressed by "Sharp Objects." However, "A Little Life" disappointed me.
by amisjoyful
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Glamorama
A short stay in hell
my dark vanessa, lolita, no longer human
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
I’m 100% still haunted by Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, I think it’s exactly what you’re looking for.
Also Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati! Sobbed my way through that one and I enjoyed the writing style.
Jude the obscure, tess of the d’urbervilles, ethan frome,house of mirth, mill on the floss
Crime & Punishment.
Chris Bohalian’s novel Double Bind
*The Road* by Cormac McCarthy
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan. It absolutely devastated me, and still haunts me a decade later.
The Road
Together We Will Go
A Little Life!! This will do the haunting trick.
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson—slow start but you will weep
The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow
1984 by George Orwell
The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillion Hertz
Trainspotting
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa