/lit/ - Literature

what authors make you feel?

not authors that make your cry or depressed but just make you bitter and unsatisfied

for me its Stefan Zwieg, his descriptions of a traditional, cultural central Europe before the horrors of war and modernism spoil it all. as a northern Irish person living in a province that has for its whole existence been nothing but a tribal killing ground, I feel disappointed I will never experience such a world

>500 word essay due Monday
>haven't even started yet

The Earth is 2015 years old and there are already millions of books written. What should I read?

>tfw you have to sell your books to buy new books