The World Is Hell: Hopeless Literature
- Updated about 1 month ago
- 36 Books
Inspired by 'The World is Hell: Hopeless Cinema' list in Letterboxd, this list is about dark, disturbing, and/or graphic books.
Suggestions welcome.
 1984
| 4.21 | 5,020 reads | |
 A Clockwork Orange
| 3.93 | 858 reads | |
 A Little Life | 4.13 | 692 reads | |
 Beloved
| 3.9 | 425 reads | |
 Blindness
| 3.99 | 345 reads | |
 Flowers for Algernon
| 4.27 | 1,287 reads | |
 Gone to See the River Man
| 3.75 | 76 reads | |
 Guts Guts
| 3.62 | 33 reads | |
 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
| 3.67 | 174 reads | |
 Johnny Got His Gun
| 4.04 | 67 reads | |
 Les Chants de Maldoror
| 4.25 | 9 reads | |
 Living Dead Girl
| 3.51 | 48 reads | |
 Nausea
| 3.67 | 119 reads | |
 Never Let Me Go
| 3.83 | 1,052 reads | |
 Night
| 4.34 | 815 reads | |
 No Longer Human
| 3.86 | 529 reads | |
 Notes from the Underground
| 4 | 15 reads | |
.jpg&width=100&height=150&type=webp) Of Mice and Men
| 3.79 | 2,006 reads | |
 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| 3.98 | 514 reads | |
 Only Ever Yours
| 3.38 | 13 reads | |
 On the Beach
| 3.8 | 86 reads | |
 Sharp Objects
| 3.78 | 784 reads | |
 Slaughterhouse 5
| 4.09 | 1,826 reads | |
 Something Happened
| 3.89 | 19 reads | |
 Stoner
| 4.44 | 411 reads | |
 Tender Is the Flesh
| 3.71 | 501 reads | |
 The 120 Days of Sodom
| 2.23 | 18 reads | |
 The Bluest Eye
| 3.97 | 275 reads | |
 The Handmaid's Tale
| 4.08 | 2,147 reads | |
 The Mysterious Stranger
| 3 | 1 read | |
 The Painted Bird
| 3.6 | 23 reads | |
 The Road
| 4.03 | 1,440 reads | |
 The Road Back
| 4.3 | 16 reads | |
 The Stranger
| 3.94 | 1,629 reads | |
 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
| 3.85 | 55 reads | |
 The Wasp Factory
| 3.61 | 211 reads |