I want to read something which as painful as possible not in a romantically way but like a person living in very tough situation and then more troubles come to him and then he pray for help and instead of help He goes more deep in misery.
Thanks guys.
by IndividualAge715
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I recently read The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec and it had me BAWLING. It’s a great story, interesting characters but when the scene called for tragic, it delivered.
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb has been described as “book shaped pain”
Abundance by Jakob Guanzon, it’s about a homeless father attempting to care for himself and his son
Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski. One on the best books EVER. It will rip your soul apart.
I have three pretty different answers all of which I believe are on point depending on what you are looking for.
For me, **Flowers For Algernon** by Daniel Keyes is the answer to this question.
**Night** by Eli Wisel probably fits as well.
**No Longer Human** by Osaka Dazai is another good answer.
Algernon is more subtle. It is not a violent or world ending kind of despair, but more a personal, intellectual despair. The book itself is brilliantly told and beautiful in its own right. A story worth coming back to.
Night is a book about the holocaust from the perspective of a man who experienced it as a boy. Need I say more?
No Longer Human is a uniquely Japanese novel set in the post WW-2 Japan and depicts alienation and social isolation as well as suicidal ideation and was written by an author believed to have committed suicide after writing the book.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. I can’t remember if there were prayers for help but there is plenty of everything else you are looking for.
Prophet song will destroy you
Those Whose Names Are Unknown, by Sanora Babb. An account of the Dust Bowl.
Evergreen by Rebecca Rasmussen
Horns by Joe Hill is the saddest book I ever read. It loved it, will never read it again.
Ender’s game by Orson Scott card
The goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
*Nop’s trials* by Donald McCaig
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
A Little Life
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Kristen Hannah’s The Four Winds. It was brutal!
Human Acts by Han Kang.
It’s classic lit, but if you haven’t already, read The Diary of Anne Frank. The level of poignancy and terror is unbelievable.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Not about an individual’s difficult life but generational trauma. It’s so beautifully written and truly heartbreaking.
The White Hotel by DM Thomas. None tougher, but I can’t tell you why. It will stay with you for the rest of your life.
*A Little Life* by Hanya Yanigihara
*My Dark Vanessa* by Kate Elizabeth Russell
*It’s All River* by Carla Madeira (my favorite out of this list)
I found Cloud Cuckoo Land incredibly moving.
Violence: A Writer’s Guide Second Edition by Rory Miller
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
by Lindsay C. Gibson
I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know by Ellen Kirschman
One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1 by Whitney Alyse Webb
One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein Vol. 2
by Whitney Alyse Webb
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook — What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D Perry, Maia Szalavitz
Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital by Heidi Squier Kraft
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by JD Vance
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
A man Called Ove
The Road by Cormac McCarthy