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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
50 books — 23 voters
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon PadgettThe Nightwatches of Bonaventura by Ernst August Friedrich Klin...Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno SchulzIn 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 GolemanThe Happiness Project by Gretchen RubinThe Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan HaidtStumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert
Happiness, Well-being, & Emotional Intelligence
19 books — 9 voters
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaPersuasion and Rhetoric by Carlo MichelstaedterThe Nag Hammadi Library by Unknown Nag HammadiFuture Christ by François LaruelleAll Things are Possible by Lev Shestov
World-Sadness
98 books — 8 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
The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel ZapffeThe World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur SchopenhauerNegative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead by Julie ResheThe Militant by Mason MarksLe bréviaire du chaos by Albert Caraco
Pessimism
20 books — 6 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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