/lit/ - Literature

can /lit/ recommend books around the theme of anxiety ? no poetry or self developpement shit, only literary novels pls
bonus point if about performance anxiety

moreso a collection of favourites:

>A heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

>O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?

>I have spread my dreams under your feet.
>Tread softly for you tread on my dreams.

>But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
>Walks o'ver the dew of yon high eastward hill.

>The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

>What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

bonus excerpt:

>Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?

>But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God- so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing- straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!

>read
>underline sections worth revisiting
>do that
>read reviews, reception, essays, and criticisms

sometimes I just read, sometimes I use summaries after sections in the case of faulkner etc. where, even if i'm reading slowly and closely, i can't rely on myself to catch everything. it's all real intuitive and based on feel, as useless as that is to say.