Can you recommend some heavy/dark books?
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Just finished Sophie's Choice, which is the current Wall St. Journal book club pick. WOW. The first time in my 48 years where I've read something and thought, "this is a master work." I mean, it's that well done.
And heavy. And dark. Another book that stayed with me is the book by that escapee from the North Korean prison camp. Incredible. The only person born in a camp to ever escape. Short, and imo a must-read. It's called, Escape from Camp 14. |
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Agree with this. Rape of Nanking -- infuriating, haunting, disturbing Hilter's Furies -- female participation during the Holocaust Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, well written and very powerful |
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| Serena. |
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| Gillian Flynn--Dark Places and Sharp Objects |
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| Pretty much all the Russian classics. |
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Atonement by Ian McEwan
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro |
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| Forget Gone Girl. Read the one she wrote before it -- Dark Places. |
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| The Congressional Record |
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| The Long Walk (movie name was The Way Back- also very good) about these guys who escape from the gulag and walk through Mongolia, China to India. |
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| The Countess, Rebecca Johns |
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House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
The Street - Ann Petry Two wildly different but very dark books |
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| The Last Policeman trilogy by Ben Winter |
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Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
Sanctuary - William Faulkner |
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| Books by Patricia Highsmith. |
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| I'm keeping this list for books to read never. I want nice stories, tidy endings. (The Congressional Record reading is required.) |