10 Books For Depressed People
And it's not just that the characters find themselves in depressing situation after depressing situation (well, they kind of do), it's the fact that the scope of the novel makes every depressing instance so much more tragic because you're highly familiar with what lead each character to the sad place they're in currently.
4. Like Life (2002), Lorrie Moore
Like Life is a collection of pretty stories about depressed, highly self-aware, usually-single women trying to deal with lovers, family, dating, work, and their own identities as they go from ‘young woman’ to ‘not-so-young woman.’ I think what’s most satisfying to the depressed individual with Like Life is both the scope she employs, her elegant prose, and her empathetic, sometimes-bitter, sometimes-longing manner of narration. It makes you feel less alone; it makes you feel like being sad is okay – pretty, even. But sad nevertheless.
