Any recommendations for dark novels?

[OhMargaret]

Just finished The Handmaid's tale and Platform by the French writer Michel Houellebecq - loved them both. They're both dark and a bit disturbing but seriously make you think.

Anyone got any recommendations for similar?

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman is pretty bleak. Be warned, you will not get any answers. Nothing is explained. It's a good book though.

If you liked Handmaid's Tale, try the School for Good Mothers.

If you want very dark, gruesome crime - Nick Stone, Mr Clarinet. It's quite a few years old now but it's stayed with me vividly!

@BrianBettyGrable I enoyed the Gone Girl film (more than the book actually, it reminded me of Hitchcock - the dark glamour). Will look up Sharp Objects, thank you

@BrianBettyGrable another great film too (Morvern Callar)

@JeanBodel I love this kind of existential sci-fi, thank you

@Iwillnotdancewiththedevil School for Good Mothers sounds interesting (I guess it's along the lines of Never Let Me Go)

Michel Faber, Under the Skin? Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army?

"Hunger" by Knut Hamsun, in the translation by Sverre Lyngstad. About a writer on the edge of starvation.

Out by Kirino
the sailor who fell from Grace by mishima
they by Kay Dick (definitely a thinker)
the unit by ninni holmqvist
it happened in Boston by rh greenan

second I who have never known men

The Four Winds by Krston Hannah is pretty depressing
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donahue is also very bleak

I loved Under the skin. It's very different from the film.

@Meniscus @katycantrip I loved Under The Skin too, it reminded me of Tim Krabbe's The Vanishing but even weirder

@Bruisername Hadn't heard of Kay Dick, sounds good - thank you

Try;

Child A by Abigail Dean
The chalk man by c j Tudor
The last thing to burn by Will Dean

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
Life and Fate - Vassily Grossman
Notes from Underground - Dostoyevsky
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn

@MaudGone God, I remember reading this as a teenager - the original Scandi noir

Anything by Liz Nugent. Strange Sally Diamond is her most recent one and it was disturbing / unsettling. Loved it!

The Secret River

Laura Blundy

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Possibly the darkest novel ever.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Bleak!

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. It's heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.

Morvern Callar is great! Good call.

Just reading The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Dystopian and dark