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The World Is Hell: Hopeless Literature

Inspired by 'The World is Hell: Hopeless Cinema' list in Letterboxd, this list is about dark, disturbing, and/or graphic books.

Suggestions welcome.

1984
A Clockwork Orange
A Little Life
Beloved
Blindness
Flowers for Algernon
Gone to See the River Man
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Guts

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Johnny Got His Gun
Les Chants de Maldoror
Living Dead Girl
Nausea
Never Let Me Go
Night
No Longer Human
Notes from the Underground
Of Mice and Men
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Only Ever Yours
On the Beach
Sharp Objects
Slaughterhouse 5
Something Happened
Stoner
Tender Is the Flesh
The 120 Days of Sodom
The Bluest Eye
The Handmaid's Tale
The Mysterious Stranger
The Painted Bird
The Road
The Road Back
The Stranger
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The Wasp Factory