Bouquins & Books | Around the World in 12 Miserable Books @bouquinsbooks | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Here are 12 miserable books for #miserymay

Misery May is hosted by
Gem @GemofBooks youtube.com/watch?v=lCzdij_0wbo
And Scott @GunpowderFictionPlot youtube.com/watch?v=s7-YpqCbKXQ

Here is Brian's list of 11 miserable books: youtube.com/watch?v=MwWN8zu3w6A

I also briefly mention May of the Moderns, hosted by Margaret Pinard:
youtube.com/watch?v=RwOEzTSpEPI

0:00 Intro
3:41 Caribbeans and South America
5:34 Africa
6:58 Europe
12:12 Asia
14:06 Canada

Books mentioned:
Love, Anger, Madness; Marie Vieux-Chauvet
The Feast of the Goat; Mario Vargas Llosa
Murambi, the Book of Bones; Boubacar Boris Diop
Hunger; Knut Hamsen
Germinal; Emile Zola
Nobody's Boy (Sans famille); Hector Malot
Fatelesness; Imre Kertesz
Humiliated and Insulted; Fedor Dostoyevsky
Three Drops of Blood; Sadeq Hedayat
Confessions of a Mask; Yukio Mishima
Hysteric; Nelly Arcan
Island; Alistair McLeod