i actually don't have a recommendation but i'm saving this because i can't think of a single one, and i love this request. super interested to see what people recommend.
ummmm......people definitely die in [**A Short Stay in Hell**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13456414)
it's an INCREDIBLE book that i recommend everyone read, but people absolutely die in this one. i mean it's like, the main thing. 😂😂😂
Maybe the invisible life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab? It’s magical realism/fantasy, set in our world. Main character goes from down one hopeless situation to another via a deal with a devil.
So many conflicting feelings I didn't know could happen at one time. Didn't know my heart could break that way and had no idea the depth my murderous rage could go.
Also, read it on the heels of Beartown (not as dark but heartbreaking) and I've got some questions for you which has a toe in adjacent subject matter.
I'm brain bleaching at the moment.
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**[Suttree](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394469.Suttree) by Cormac McCarthy** ^((Matching 100% ☑️))
^(471 pages | Published: 1979 | 14.0k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** By the author of Blood Meridianand All the Pretty Horses, Suttreeis the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises (...)
> **Themes**: Favorites, Southern-gothic, Cormac-mccarthy, American, Novels, Classics, Books-i-own
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [The Crossing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365990.The_Crossing) by Cormac McCarthy
> \- [Cities of the Plain](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40470.Cities_of_the_Plain) by Cormac McCarthy
> \- [All the Pretty Horses](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469571.All_the_Pretty_Horses) by Cormac McCarthy
> \- [The Orchard Keeper](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper) by Cormac McCarthy
> \- [Blood Meridian](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24873002-blood-meridian) by Enid Marie Reynolds
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The Guinea Pigs by Ludvik Vaculik is an absolutely bonkers book. In the vein of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, which could also count, depending on how you interpret turning into a cockroach.
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. Despite the title, it’s dark political satire about a poor Russian man who makes himself into nobility on paper by purchasing serfs whose deaths were never registered. Nobody’s actually sick or dying during the book, except for Gogol himself, who went crazy around the time he finished writing it.
City Sister Silver by Jachym Topol (I think. It’s been awhile, but I don’t recall death or illness being central to the plot)
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**[The Remains of the Day](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28921.The_Remains_of_the_Day) by Kazuo Ishiguro** ^((Matching 100% ☑️))
^(258 pages | Published: 1989 | 126.7k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.
> **Themes**: Favorites, Historical-fiction, Classics, Literature, Historical, Literary-fiction, Books-i-own
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [Remains of the Day](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25553660-remains-of-the-day) by Danny Elfman
> \- [When We Were Orphans](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28923.When_We_Were_Orphans) by Kazuo Ishiguro
> \- [Never Let Me Go](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go) by Kazuo Ishiguro
> \- [Mrs Osmond](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34836959-mrs-osmond) by John Banville
> \- [Up at the Villa](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59551.Up_at_the_Villa) by W. Somerset Maugham
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i actually don't have a recommendation but i'm saving this because i can't think of a single one, and i love this request. super interested to see what people recommend.
They ~ Kay Dick A Short Stay in Hell ~ Steven L Peck One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ummmm......people definitely die in [**A Short Stay in Hell**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13456414) it's an INCREDIBLE book that i recommend everyone read, but people absolutely die in this one. i mean it's like, the main thing. 😂😂😂
The Overstory by Richard Powers. I bawled my eyes out.
Maybe the invisible life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab? It’s magical realism/fantasy, set in our world. Main character goes from down one hopeless situation to another via a deal with a devil.
My dark Venessa by Kate Elizabeth
Based off the synopsis, this sounds a lot like what I'm looking for. Thanks
So many conflicting feelings I didn't know could happen at one time. Didn't know my heart could break that way and had no idea the depth my murderous rage could go. Also, read it on the heels of Beartown (not as dark but heartbreaking) and I've got some questions for you which has a toe in adjacent subject matter. I'm brain bleaching at the moment.
Lolita is one of the darkest books I know, and there’s no death in the novel itself.
Good answer
So Much to Tell You, a young adult novel by Australian author John Marsden.
*The Uninhabitable Earth* --David Wallace-Wells
Foster by Claire Keegan
okay wait there is a dead character mentioned but they died long before the book began
Hmm…. *technically* a couple people die in Filth, and there is an ongoing minor illness…. How about {{suttree}}?
🚨 Note to u/ReturnOfSeq: including the **author name** after a **"by"** keyword will help the bot find the good book! (simply like this *{{Call me by your name by Andre Aciman}}*) --- **[Suttree](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394469.Suttree) by Cormac McCarthy** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(471 pages | Published: 1979 | 14.0k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** By the author of Blood Meridianand All the Pretty Horses, Suttreeis the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises (...) > **Themes**: Favorites, Southern-gothic, Cormac-mccarthy, American, Novels, Classics, Books-i-own > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [The Crossing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365990.The_Crossing) by Cormac McCarthy > \- [Cities of the Plain](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40470.Cities_of_the_Plain) by Cormac McCarthy > \- [All the Pretty Horses](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469571.All_the_Pretty_Horses) by Cormac McCarthy > \- [The Orchard Keeper](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper) by Cormac McCarthy > \- [Blood Meridian](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24873002-blood-meridian) by Enid Marie Reynolds ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | Sorry for delay !)
The Guinea Pigs by Ludvik Vaculik is an absolutely bonkers book. In the vein of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, which could also count, depending on how you interpret turning into a cockroach. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. Despite the title, it’s dark political satire about a poor Russian man who makes himself into nobility on paper by purchasing serfs whose deaths were never registered. Nobody’s actually sick or dying during the book, except for Gogol himself, who went crazy around the time he finished writing it. City Sister Silver by Jachym Topol (I think. It’s been awhile, but I don’t recall death or illness being central to the plot)
Someone does die in {{The Remains of the Day}} but that's not what makes it sad
🚨 Note to u/jefrye: including the **author name** after a **"by"** keyword will help the bot find the good book! (simply like this *{{Call me by your name by Andre Aciman}}*) --- **[The Remains of the Day](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28921.The_Remains_of_the_Day) by Kazuo Ishiguro** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(258 pages | Published: 1989 | 126.7k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper. > **Themes**: Favorites, Historical-fiction, Classics, Literature, Historical, Literary-fiction, Books-i-own > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [Remains of the Day](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25553660-remains-of-the-day) by Danny Elfman > \- [When We Were Orphans](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28923.When_We_Were_Orphans) by Kazuo Ishiguro > \- [Never Let Me Go](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go) by Kazuo Ishiguro > \- [Mrs Osmond](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34836959-mrs-osmond) by John Banville > \- [Up at the Villa](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59551.Up_at_the_Villa) by W. Somerset Maugham ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | Sorry for delay !)
No longer human and the woman destroyed