Bleak books
Here are 48 books with a lot of bleak, starting with The Orphan Master's Son, The Bunker Diary and Night.
The Orphan Master's SonAdam Johnson
The Bunker DiaryKevin Brooks
NightElie Wiesel
BlindnessJose Saramago
The RoadCormac McCarthy
1984George Orwell
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)George Orwell
George Orwell: 1984 / Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
1984 - OrwellGeorge Orwell
1984 - NovelGeorge Orwell
Tender Is the FleshAgustina Bazterrica
Asking For ItLouise O'Neill
The JungleUpton Sinclair
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the WestCormac McCarthy
Revolutionary RoadRichard Yates
Kolyma TalesVarlam Shalamov
SatantangoLaszlo Krasznahorkai
Last Exit to BrooklynHubert Selby Jr.
The Painted BirdJerzy Kosinski
I Have No Mouth and I Must ScreamHarlan Ellison
No Longer HumanOsamu Dazai
In the Country of Last ThingsPaul Auster
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and GentlemenTadeusz Borowski
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?Horace McCoy
1984 : George Orwell's 1984: A Dystopian MasterpieceGeorge Orwell
1984 : George OrwellGeorge GEORGE ORWELL
BrotherAnia Ahlborn
MiseryStephen King
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck
The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
The TrialFranz Kafka
No Country for Old MenCormac McCarthy
House of Sand and FogAndre Dubus III
Animal Farm / 1984George Orwell
We Need to Talk About KevinLionel Shriver
A Little LifeHanya Yanagihara
Full Dark, No StarsStephen King
The Children of HúrinJ.R.R. Tolkien
The Spy Who Came In from the ColdJohn le Carre
Requiem for a DreamHubert Selby Jr.
On the BeachNevil Shute
Play It as It LaysJoan Didion
The Heart is Deceitful Above All ThingsJ.T. LeRoy
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas ChambersFilip Muller
A Song Of StoneIain Banks
The Sheep Look UpJohn Brunner
Leaving Las VegasJohn O'Brien