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Once Upon a Trainwreck books

Stories about spectacularly messy lives, relationships, or decisions that readers cannot look away from, finding dark comedy and catharsis in watching characters careen toward inevitable disaster

1. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2019)
2. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (2001)
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2011)
4. We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2003)
5. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
6. Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis (1985)
7. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2008)
8. Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (2014)
9. The Girls by Emma Cline (2016)
10. Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney (2017)
11. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (1993)
12. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
13. Revolutionary road by Richard Yates (1961)
14. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (2005)
15. You by Caroline Kepnes (2014)
16. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1948)
17. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988)
18. Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)
19. White oleander by Fitch, Janet (1989)