Demented Stories That Make You Feel Better About Your Life

Explore a collection of demented stories from books that will make you feel better about your own life. Darkly humorous and oddly uplifting tales to put things in perspective.

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The End Of Alice

by A.M. Homes

From the 2013 Orange Prize–winning author of May We Be Forgiven. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide …
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A Density of Souls

by Christopher Rice

Take the sensuous, fecund New Orleans setting, add a generous helping of tangled Southern family history, and season liberally with a sensitive teenage boy rejected …
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Wasteland

 

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Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt …
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Sleepers

 

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Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

Ruth Anne Boatwright--a South Carolina bastard who is attached to the indomitable women in her mother's family--is tired of being labeled white trash and longs …
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Lolita

 

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. …