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A pitch-black comedy of compounding disasters and the absurd catharsis of hitting rock bottom. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with P.S. Your cat is dead!.
- chaotic
- desperate
- claustrophobic
- frenetic
- 01
A single man
Christopher Isherwood
A sharply observed, deeply moving portrait of a single day in the life of a man carrying the invisible weight of profound grief.
- 02
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily Austin
A hilariously bleak and deeply tender spiral into the mind of an anxious lesbian trying to survive her own brain.
- 03
Bright lights, big city
Jay McInerney · 1992
A frantic, second-person plunge into the neon-lit exhaustion of urban excess and addiction.
- 04
You shall know our velocity
Dave Eggers
A frantic, darkly funny, and deeply bruised sprint across the globe in a desperate attempt to outrun grief.
- 05
A Dirty Job
Christopher Moore · 2006
A hilariously morbid romp through the bureaucracy of the afterlife, anchored by the fierce love of a neurotic single dad.
- 06
You Suck
Christopher Moore · 2007
A manic, blood-splattered rom-com that trades brooding gothic romance for slapstick comedy and teenage goth snark.
- 07
Dance on my grave
Aidan Chambers · 1982
A fragmented, fiercely emotional dive into the dizzying heights of first queer love and the chaotic aftermath of sudden loss.
- 08
John Dies at the End
David Wong · 2009
A chaotic descent into cosmic horror where the only thing scarier than the interdimensional monsters is the protagonists' sheer incompetence.
- 09
The tenth good thing about Barney
Judith Viorst · 1971
A gentle, reflective journey through the bittersweet process of saying goodbye to a beloved pet by holding onto good memories.
- 10
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 1993
A devastating, beautifully written confession of doomed love and the tragic cost of denying one's own heart.
- 11
A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin · 1953
A chilling, perfectly engineered trap of a novel that locks you inside the mind of a charming sociopath.
- 12
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
A sparkling, globe-trotting comedy of errors about outrunning heartbreak and accidentally stumbling into grace.
