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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiBetter Never to Have Been by David BenatarThe Lightning and the Sun by Savitri DeviBeing No One by Thomas MetzingerThe King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. Chambers
No Lives Matter Recommended Reading List
51 books — 24 voters
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon PadgettSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno SchulzThe Nightwatches of Bonaventura by Ernst August Friedrich Klin...In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene ThackerThe Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. Cioran
Ligottian
58 books — 22 voters

The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIVEmotional Intelligence by Daniel GolemanNO MORE THERAPISTS YOUR BRAIN HAS THE ANSWER by Yvonne OswaldThe Happiness Project by Gretchen RubinThe Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
Happiness, Well-being, & Emotional Intelligence
23 books — 14 voters
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaLibidinal Economy by Jean-François LyotardThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert BurtonPersuasion and Rhetoric by Carlo MichelstaedterThe Nag Hammadi Library by Unknown Nag Hammadi
World-Sadness
108 books — 10 voters

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshSolutions and Other Problems by Allie BroshEeyore's Little Book of Gloom by A.A. MilneThe Antidote by Oliver BurkemanFailure Is an Option by H. Jon Benjamin
Persistently Positively Pessimistic
16 books — 7 voters
Never Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerPositivity Warrior by Jim SoreboHeartwood by Barbara BeckerLearn to Live Forward by Chidi IwuchukwuI'm Sorry I Cremated You by Jaclyn Michelle Smith
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition II
104 books — 7 voters

Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboVigil by George SaundersHouse of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'BrienThe Gate by Natsume SōsekiHomesickness by Colin Barrett
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition III
103 books — 7 voters
The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel ZapffeNegative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead by Julie ResheThe Militant by Mason MarksLe bréviaire du chaos by Albert CaracoThe Nihilist by Keijo Kangur
Pessimism
20 books — 6 voters

Never Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerPositivity Warrior by Jim SoreboThe White Book by Han KangLearn to Live Forward by Chidi IwuchukwuAs It Is in Heaven by Niall Williams
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition IV
103 books — 6 voters
Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboLearn to Live Forward by Chidi IwuchukwuNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerDeath and the Gardener by Georgi GospodinovThe Old Man by the Sea by Domenico Starnone
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition I
103 books — 5 voters

Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboTravels with My Aunt by Graham GreeneNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerLearn to Live Forward by Chidi IwuchukwuCatholics by Brian Moore
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition V
103 books — 5 voters
Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboMust I Go by Yiyun LiNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerLearn to Live Forward by Chidi IwuchukwuThe Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition VI
71 books — 5 voters

Schopenhauer by Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Representation, Vol 1 by Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Representation by Arthur SchopenhauerThe Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur SchopenhauerSchopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer (Paperback)
6 books — 1 voter

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