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.
5. The Sun Also Rises (1926), Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s debut novel The Sun Also Rises follows its main character, Jake, through the Lost Generation’s tours of France and Spain. The idea sounds grand – and Jake and his friends do have a pretty good time – but creeping throughout the novel is a depressing anxiety that book never shakes off. Equally disturbing/ compelling is Jake’s war wound, and why exactly Hemingway chose that for him. Reading The Sun Also Rises sort of makes you want to book a ticket to Paris, spend all day drinking at a cafe, get in a fight, go dancing, drink yourself to sleep, and repeat.
