What one (1) book would you recommend a misanthrope looking to

Notes From Underground, Pevear & Volokhonsky
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This is, of course, assuming your misanthropy arises from a disillusionment with society, and not some gross failure of society itself during your formative years.
If that is the case, Seamus Heaney's Beowulf (not essential, but worth reading on its own merit) followed by John Gardner's Grendel with a reading guide.

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton helped me a bunch, maybe you'll get something out of it.

Not lit, but I would recommend Bergman's "Winter Light".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBziHXUR24

http://reverseshot.org/archive/entry/1068/winter_light

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>>9445175
You can love the Species and still be full of contempt for modern man.

>>9445175

Frankenstein

>>9445175
Cats.. simultaneously aloof and demanding. Rip your heart out when they die.
Sure, theyre not people. Theyre cats, dingdong.