Is it worth living if there is no meaning in life? If this is a life where no one needs you — neither your father (cheating on your mother), nor your mother (renounces you and drinks heavily), or even your grandmother (finds himself a twenty-five year old boyfriend as husband). The girl’s conclusions are sad - such life is not worth its continuation. Gloria ends her life by suicide ... but only in order to start a new one, without a doubt, different from the previous one.
Fans of the work will surely like these ten books, similar to "50 Days Before My Suicide."
10.13 reasons why. Jay Asher
Why do teens die? Why do they decide that death is the only way out of trouble? Hormones? Teenage crisis? Harassment? Feeling lonely?
Jay Asher tells us the story of Hannah Baker, who, unfortunately, is truly ending her life. After her death, Hannah leaves a card and cassettes with audio recordings in which she talks about her reasons why. Cassettes receive only those people who have become these reasons.
9. It is good to be quiet. Stephen Chbosky
The main character Charlie likes to read books. His favorites are “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Over the Catcher in the Rye”, with the main character of which Charlie is often compared. The guy keeps a diary, and turning to a mysterious friend, he shares not only the events of the difficult life of a teenager, but his feelings and thoughts, his loneliness, his weakness and invisibility. Charlie carefully tastes the world: he is hard on the death of his aunt Helen, his first love, runs into drugs, gains and loses friends.
8. I would choose life. Thierry Cohen
Victoria suddenly breaks relations with Jeremy on his birthday, and the main character decides to commit suicide. But in the morning he wakes up alive and cannot understand what happened, because his Victoria is next to him. Trying to figure out what happened, Jeremy is looking for answers to questions, each time waking up a year after his suicide. His life ceases to belong to him. Jeremy can only watch how his life goes, changing himself, year after year. Maybe he really should have chosen life, not pills?
7. You are not to blame. Jennifer niven
Theodore Finch has a new novel. The novel is not ordinary - he has a deep relationship with one unusual lady. He thinks about her constantly, relentlessly inventing new and new ways to see her. The name of the mysterious lady is Death. Violet stops him, who decides to jump from the school bell tower. Finch discourages the girl and invites her to show life from her pleasant side, finding new and new joys every day. Will Lady Death forgive his betrayal? We'll see.
6. Alice's diary. Beatrice Sparks
A very honest book written on behalf of a teenage girl. The girl’s name is nowhere to be found, but it is known that she is studying the world using drugs. Like all teenagers, she is intolerable to think that she merges with the gray mass of ordinary people who “think the same and buy the same”. She dreams of her parents talking to her, talking, and not reading notations. Drugs seem to the teenager a pass into an unusual bright world. What turns this brightness and unusualness into reality? Traveling behind Alice in the rabbit hole - round trip - this is what this book is about.
5. Stay with me. Amy Zhang
Liz Emerson, a famous egoist, poisonous and merciless, has no one to hate but herself. After the death of her father, her life turns into a local branch of hell - she does what she wants, causes people suffering, she would be happy to stop, but she cannot. The heroine is seriously occupied with the cause-effect relationships of life, she has a chance to look at her life from a completely different perspective. True, for this she will have to organize her own death in a car accident.
4. Abyss in the rye. Jerome David Salinger
The cult American novel of the second half of the twentieth century tells us about the life of Holden Caulfield, who is being treated at the clinic. Like all teenagers, Holden seeks his own meaning of life, different from the meaning of life of his parents and other adults. They seem to him hypocritical and flat, inanimate. Holden is expelled from school for poor progress, he swears with friends, discusses the meaning of life, and decides to escape, from which his younger sister Phoebe dissuades him.
3. In search of Alaska. John green
Alaska Young - that is the name of the girl in search of whom the “Fat Man” Miles Hotter lives. He moves from a house where he had no friends to a senior boarding school in Alabama. In his new life, friends appear with him, but everything turns out to be not so simple - in the boarding school the impudent “people” (children whom they let go to their parents on weekends) run the ball. The drawing of Miles himself translates into a war with the aliens, and the first love ends with the tragic death of Alaska, which Miles himself helps to escape from the boarding school.
2. Touch of love. Jonathan Coe
Eternal aspirate Robin Grant pretends to write his dissertation. In fact, he is trying to figure out the love that once happened to him. Rather, touched - the girl he fell in love with became the wife of his friend. Robin writes stories, trying to understand the mystical essence of love, in himself, in the world around him, as well as in the most important question - does he want to love someone again. Or he just had enough ... a touch of love.
1. Paper cities. John green
“Paper people live in paper houses and heat them with their own future. Paper children whip beer bought by some bum in a paper deli. And everyone is obsessed with how to get more junk. And all the junk is thin and mortal, like paper. And people are the same. ”
Quentin is in love with his neighbor Margot. And Margot is in love with her paper cities and her secrets, such a love triangle. After Margot disappears, Quentin organizes her search. The girl’s hints come to the rescue, which she leaves, and Quentin, as well as his friends, get the opportunity to find out the real Margot, not paper.