Angst

Angst -- refers to a genre of stories with prevalent physical or, mainly, emotional torment of characters. Most stories with an angst description contain significant levels of characters feeling emotions such as fear, anxiety, or sadness. Such fics may also be designed to elicit such emotions in the readers.

The Unwanted Wife (Unwanted, #1)
Bully (Fall Away, #1)
Archer's Voice
Ugly Love
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
Thoughtless (Thoughtless, #1)
Unbreak My Heart (Fostering Love, #1)
Vicious (Sinners of Saint, #1)
The Song of Achilles
Still Beating
A Love Letter to Whiskey (A Love Letter to Whiskey, #1)
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
On Dublin Street (On Dublin Street, #1)
The Fault in Our Stars
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesBared to You by Sylvia DayEasy by Tammara WebberGabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard
Tortured Sexy Trash
283 books — 419 voters
Obsidian by Jennifer L. ArmentroutOnyx by Jennifer L. ArmentroutHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa Layne
Books with bickering couples
236 books — 107 voters

The Unwanted Wife by Natasha AndersKiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsThe Wrong Bride by Catharina MauraLuna and the Lie by Mariana ZapataThe Tyrant Alpha's Rejected Mate by Cate C. Wells
Angst and Grovel Galore
331 books — 46 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMisery by Stephen  KingBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenEthereal by Phillip Bainbridge
Emotions in Titles
853 books — 48 voters

David Foster Wallace
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and g ...more
David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Oscar Wilde
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. ...more
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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