I've never been able to finish a sad book apart from when I was a teenager. It was 'life is what you make it-preeti Shenoy'
I'm a big fan of crime thrillers though.
Please recommend a book that
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Speaks about marriage/relationships beautifully
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Heartbreak
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Thought provoking about life we have and choices
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FAST PACED
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an american marriage by Tayari jones
Know my Name by Chanel Miller
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is weird as hell, very short and ultimately heart-breaking.
Dr. Alice Sheldon was an experimental psychologist and her genius in her profession shows also in her writing. She wrote under several pen names, but the one through which she gained everlasting fame was “James Tiptree Jr.” An incredibly original and brilliant SF writer, who deserves much more attention.
Her tales are always interesting and often frightening explorations of the human mind.
Check her “best of” short story collection: *Her Smoke Rose Up Forever.* With a few exceptions there is not a single happy moment.
The short story, “The Screwfly Solution,” that she wrote under another other pen name “Racoona Sheldon,” is the most frightening and scientifically plausible end-of-the-world story ever written! It would be too much of a spoiler to say more about it, but if you are looking for the darkest possible horror that is also scientifically plausibleš®
Sheldon had an amazing life story. Military service, PhD in psychology, worked in U.S. intelligence, wrote under a male pen name because of sexism and other reasons, and had an unfortunately tragic end. There needs to be a biopic about her.
For more about her life, you can check out her biography. I hate to call someone who was successful at everything she did sad but she definitely had some demons that haunted her to the very end.
Phillips, Julie. *James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon.* New York: St. Martinās Press.