Thread: Dark, Emotional, and Serious

I'm looking for some well written books with very dark themes. Something that has a deep emotional pull, and deals with sensitive issues dealing with right, wrong, and human nature. If there's comedy in the book, I wan't it to be dry wit, and dark humor. Anybody got any suggestions?


For anyone else, I'd suggest most anything by Chuck Palanuik.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro. It's a short story by Ernest Hemingway.

After that, read For Whom the Bell Tolls. This too is by Hemingway.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is another very well done novel, though I forget the author's name.

Also, read Fire in the Blood. These all fit the theme of corrupt human nature.

On the Hemingway theme, try the short story The Hill are White Elephants if you haven't read it already. It's some grim shit.
Or my novel.

Anything by Jim Thompson.