The reading list of a beautifully doomed mind #3

HOW I KEPT DYING ON EVERY PAGE

Welcome back to Naked Read’s READING LIST OF A BEAUTIFULLY DOOMED MIND. This is your liturgical offering of literary doom, as promised. If the last two lists (#1 list and #2 list) delighted your soul then these are books written not to be read, but to be survived. If they don’t make you want to disappear or rewrite your past, you probably weren’t reading them right.

1. Ontological Nausea:

Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

A shriek against creation itself. Maldoror is pure existential warfare, prose like daggers dipped in nightshade. It's anti-God, anti-human, anti-everything—but so beautifully written it feels like a hymn. Blasphemy elevated to poetry.

My Rating: Like praying at an altar only to find a mirror in place of God.

2. Divinity Dismembered:

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

This is not a book. It’s an autopsy of the self, scattered across time, reality, and identity. Pessoa writes through his heteronym, Bernardo Soares, who isn’t even fully Pessoa. Think of it as a metaphys…