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Books That Are "The Axe for the Frozen Sea Within Me" or Something Like That

These are the books (from literally all genres, there is even a fanfiction in there I don't discriminate) that have done what Kafka described in this quote: "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief." for me. If you've read any of these I hope you're ok, because I'm not
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The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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The House of Hades
The House of Hades
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Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
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The Friends (Kazumi Yumoto)
The Friends (Kazumi Yumoto)
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Strange the Dreamer (Laini Taylor)
Strange the Dreamer (Laini Taylor)
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Muse of Nightmares (Laini Taylor)
Muse of Nightmares (Laini Taylor)
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro)
An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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The Book Theif (Markus Zusak)
The Book Theif (Markus Zusak)
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Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
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The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
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The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Pablo Neruda)
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Pablo Neruda)
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The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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MacBeth
MacBeth
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Gathering Blue
Gathering Blue
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Normal People (Sally Rooney)
Normal People (Sally Rooney)
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Before Night Falls (Reinaldo Arenas)
Before Night Falls (Reinaldo Arenas)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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A Piece of the World (Christina Baker Kline)
A Piece of the World (Christina Baker Kline)
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The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
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Night (Elie Wiesel)
Night (Elie Wiesel)
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
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The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
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Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
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Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
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City of Lost Souls
City of Lost Souls
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
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The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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The Auction (Dramione) (Lovesbitca8 on Wattpad)
The Auction (Dramione) (Lovesbitca8 on Wattpad)
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