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An intimate, painful, and deeply sincere portrait of a brilliant but tormented literary mind. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Every love story is a ghost story.
- anguished
- turbulent
- melancholic
- reflective
- 01
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 1996
A sprawling, tragicomic labyrinth of footnotes and hyper-articulate despair that asks what it means to be entertained to death.
- 02
Everything and more
David Foster Wallace · 2003
A dizzying, footnote-laden plunge into the mathematical abyss that stretches the limits of human comprehension.
- 03
Divine invasions
Lawrence Sutin
A deeply empathetic and clear-eyed journey into the chaotic, visionary, and often heartbreaking reality of a science fiction legend.
- 04
Palm Sunday
Kurt Vonnegut
A chaotic, deeply human scrapbook of memories, jokes, and hard-won wisdom from a beloved literary uncle.
- 05
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Dave Eggers
A manic, self-aware sprint through the devastating and absurd landscape of sudden orphanhood.
- 06
Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens
A smoky, late-night masterclass in intellectual combat and literary friendship, delivered by a fiercely unapologetic raconteur.
- 07
Super sad true love story
Gary Shteyngart
A hilariously bleak and tenderly tragic portrait of a doomed romance set against the backdrop of a collapsing, hyper-capitalist America.
- 08
The art of memoir
Mary Karr
An illuminating and cathartic exploration of how we shape our memories and how our memories shape us.
- 09
Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson
A wildly tangential, laugh-out-loud manifesto on fighting crippling depression with weaponized absurdity.
- 10
Best of Me
David Sedaris
A masterclass in observational comedy that invites you to laugh at the absurdity of human nature before quietly breaking your heart.
- 11
This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz
A raw, rhythmic autopsy of heartbreak and self-sabotage told by a narrator who can't stop breaking his own heart.
- 12
This is where I leave you
Jonathan Tropper
A hilariously chaotic and deeply tender portrait of a dysfunctional family forced to sit in the same room with their grief and each other.
