I'm looking for well-written, fictional books about misanthropes,

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one of the great Moliere plays is called The Misanthrope, quick read and definitely worth it. while we're on the subject i highly recommend FW Murnau's adaptation of Tartuffe, Emil Jannings is the greatest.

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my diary desu

Catcher in the Rye applies.

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American Psycho

The diary of every /lit/ browser desu

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Notes from Underground. also fight club and CO don't deserve to be equated with Confederacy of Dunces.

There's a good short story by Jean-Paul Sartre once about a guy who went postal. I don't remember its' name but it's one of the short stories in "Le Mur" (The Wall).

Found it. It's called Erostratus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_(short_story_collection)

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This one, like Proust, is only half fictional, but nonetheless incredibly bothersome: Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes.

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