Be A Melancholic 28 Year Old with a Great Library

Explore a melancholic 28-year-old's curated library of profound reads. Discover books that resonate with introspection, depth, and timeless wisdom for the thoughtful soul.

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Finding a Girl in America

by Andre Dubus

Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, between …
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Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Presents Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel, first published in 1938, in which Antoine Roquentin, a French writer, chronicles his reactions to the world and people around …
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Collected poems, 1947-1980

 

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The Anti-Christ

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This is Nietzsche's last book and a fitting capstone to his career. It's succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in his other …
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Atchley

by David Green

An author (named Atchley) has achieved critical acclaim by coupling an imagistically opulent narrative with a theoretical treatise on his own work. Now Atchley (this …
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Notes of a dirty old man.

 

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Stripper Lessons

by John O'Brien

The protagonist is a lonely, middle-aged law clerk whose only joy is a striptease joint where a dollar or two will win him affection. One …
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Generation X

 

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Women in Their Beds

 

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Ask the Dust

by John Fante

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young …
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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

by Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino's third novel is about the New York artistic and literary world of the 1950s and '60s, specifically the artists, writers, hangers-on, and the …
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Never Come Morning

by Nelson Algren

Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel concerns Bruno Bicek, a would-be boxer from Chicago's Northwest …
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The moviegoer

 

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