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Geek Love by Katherine DunnWater for Elephants by Sara GruenWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Quirky Dark Novels
133 books — 175 voters
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
ATY 2020 - A Book with an Emotion in the Title
622 books — 108 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMisery by Stephen KingBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAnxiety by Danny Winter
Emotions in Titles
860 books — 41 voters
Sonny's Blues by James BaldwinEven Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom RobbinsReservation Blues by Sherman AlexieHow Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues? by Barthe DeClementsLady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
The Blues
510 books — 36 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyNo Longer Human by Osamu DazaiFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Alienation, isolation and melancholy
30 books — 7 voters
Anxiety by Danny WinterThirteen Years a Lunatic by Asa B. WilsonMental Illnesses in Symbolism by Rosina NeginskyRhymes of a Raver- Tribute to a Castle of Salvaged Souls by Richard David ComstockThe Neighborhood Vigilante Redemption Committee by C.R. Baker
Inverted Lungs d'Appled With Fluttering Tongues
100 books — 5 voters

December by Linda Oatman HighThe Christmas Shoes by Donna VanLiereHappy Holidays, Jessi by Ann M. MartinThe Foxhunter by Dr Andrew J RynneThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
Tragic Christmas Stories
57 books — 3 voters
My Blind Lover by Celeste M. PackerThe Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Foxhunter by Dr Andrew J RynneForest of Noise by Mosab Abu TohaThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Tragic Poems and Sad Poetry Collections
20 books — 3 voters

Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. VaughanThe Foxhunter by Dr Andrew J RynneThe Last Syllable by Valeriano DiviacchiAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce1984 by George Orwell
Unhappy Endings: Speculative Fiction With A Tragic Ending Part I
102 books — 3 voters
Grendel by John GardnerThe Foxhunter by Dr Andrew J RynneThe Last Syllable by Valeriano DiviacchiThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Book of Sorrows by Walter Wangerin Jr.
Unhappy Endings: Speculative Fiction With A Tragic Ending Part II
34 books — 3 voters

Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. VaughanSaikano by Shin TakahashiThe Foxhunter by Dr Andrew J RynneFrom Hell by Alan MooreCerebus, Vol. 16 by Dave Sim
Unhappy Endings: Comics With A Tragic Ending
51 books — 3 voters
Ruined Landscapes Paintings of the Balkan War Zone by Ross YockeySolitude, Vanity, Night by Kirsten LodgeThe Sublime Boy by Walter de CasseresThe Melancholie Knight by Samuel RowlandsMonks of Dust by Xavier Zimbardo
Poisoned On Your Dying Bed
99 books — 2 voters

Less Than the Dust by Joseph StamperEugenics, 'aristogenics', Photography by Kris Belden-AdamsMore Alone Than You Know by Janie ChenevertThe Lonely Dwarf by Rosemary LamkeyWandering Spirits by Janne Flora
•Solitudinal Pressure Waves
102 books — 2 voters
A Hunger Artist by Franz KafkaThe Last Syllable by Valeriano DiviacchiThe Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor DostoevskyDiary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu XunWhite Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Books About Meaning After Meaning Dies: Existence, Absurdity, Nihilism, Loneliness
12 books — 2 voters

Tortured Artists by Christopher ZaraVINCENT VAN GOGH by The History HourMadness and Modernity by Gemma BlackshawSurrealist women artists and mental illness by Jenny AngerHappy, Not Tortured by Céline Terranova
Non-Fiction Books About Tortured Artists (visual artists)
61 books — 1 voter
27 by Howard SounesHeavier Than Heaven by Charles R. CrossRed Comet by Heather ClarkLudwig Van Beethoven by Brendan JanuaryErnest Hemingway by University Press Biographies
Non-Fiction Books About Tortured Artists (writers and musicians)
30 books — 1 voter

Death and the Gardener by Georgi GospodinovThe Old Man by the Sea by Domenico StarnoneThe Eleventh Hour by Salman RushdieLightbreakers by Aja GabelThe News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition I
100 books — 1 voter
I'm Sorry I Cremated You by Jaclyn Michelle SmithThe Leaving Room by Amber McBrideThe Museum of Forgotten Memories by Anstey HarrisThe Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke EmeziThe Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition II
100 books — 1 voter

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersAntarctica by Claire KeeganLast Stories by William TrevorWhere Reasons End by Yiyun Li
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition III
100 books — 1 voter
The White Book by Han KangAs It Is in Heaven by Niall WilliamsO Pioneers! by Willa CatherWe Are Water by Wally LambThe Possession by Annie Ernaux
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition IV
100 books — 1 voter

Travels with My Aunt by Graham GreeneCatholics by Brian MooreThe Hours by Michael CunninghamMemento Mori by Muriel SparkSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition V
100 books — 1 voter
Must I Go by Yiyun LiThe Immortalists by Chloe BenjaminHollow Bones by Jodi PicoultThe Tennis Partner by Abraham VergheseGetting to Know Death by Gail Godwin
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition VI
68 books — 1 voter

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