Struggle


The Old Man and the Sea
A Little Life
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Wretched of the Earth
Where the Crawdads Sing
Between the World and Me
Speak
The Glass Castle
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Four Winds
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
The Great Alone
Night
The Grapes of Wrath
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsRoom by Emma DonoghueUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandNight by Elie Wiesel
ATY 2020 - Books About Survival
202 books — 69 voters
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteMidnight Cowboy by James Leo HerlihyAn Eye For Others by Tom  McDonoughCittà in fiamme by Garth Risk HallbergPunk Avenue by Phil Marcade
Rock Bottom in New York
26 books — 11 voters

The Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerU Got to Have U Some Fun by Andrew HarklessDon't Stop the Carnival by Herman WoukThe Sundial Salesman by Chassi AlbuquerqueThe Risk Pool by Richard Russo
If You Like John Irving
15 books — 5 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Help by Kathryn StockettFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTrash by Andy Mulligan
Power Playlist
29 books — 4 voters


Slavoj Žižek
Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves. ...more
Slavoj Žižek

Joseph Conrad
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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