Can you recommend some heavy/dark books?
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Anonymous
| I most enjoy books that are kind of dark and heavy. Fiction or nonfiction. Examples would be She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb or Escape from Camp 14, about the guy who was born in a North Korea labor camp and escaped. Can you recommend any others that are like this? |
Anonymous
| 5 Days at Memorial |
Anonymous
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The New Jim Crow
War Against the Weak: Eugenics Movement in America IBM and the Holocaust |
Anonymous
| Cormac McCarthy's books |
Anonymous
I agree with this, especially The Road. Have you read Revolutionary Road? That's pretty dark and depressing... |
Anonymous
| Anything by James Ellroy (author of LA Confidential)... "My Dark Places" is a nonfiction book about his mother's unsolved murder, which happened when Ellroy was in grade school. |
Anonymous
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The orchardist by Amanda coplin - recent debut novel
Anything by Amy Tan seems would be up your alley. Usual standbys: Heavy sand by Rybakov (translated from Russian) One day in the life of Ivan denisovich (Solzhenitsyn) |
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If you're up for more on North Korea, read Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick. Chilling.
And, Wild Swans by Jung Chang. |
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Cormac McCarthy - god yes. Bleak.
The Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver Every Last One - Anna Quindlen The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer The O'Briens - Peter Behrens We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas Anything by A.M. Homes, a lot of Joyce Carol Oates' and Lorrie Moore's short stories |
Anonymous
| All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr about two children growing up in WWII on different sides. |
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Hush Little Baby by Suzanne Redfearn
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Anonymous
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The Kite Runner.
Another vote for 10 Days in Memorial A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (an excellent novel about life during the Chenyan War) |
Anonymous
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
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| Native Son |
Anonymous
| VC Andrews' Dollanganger series or My Sweet Audrina. |