Any book recommendations for fiction coming-of-age novels set in “dark” circumstances (past, present, or future/sci-fi)? For example, I really enjoyed All The Light We Cannot See (WW2), the Orphan Master’s Son (North Korea), and Severance (by Ling Ma; end of the world due to fungi pandemic).

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“They Both Die at the End” and the prequel to that book “The First to Die at the End”. The Nightingale.

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A land of permanent goodbyes
Cloud cuckoo land
Memory keeper of Kyiv

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Great recs and exactly what I’m looking for!!!! Thank you!! Please feel free to send more if you think of others :)

This one too:
Against the loveless world

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They’re older ones, but I really love The Tomorrow Code and The House of the Scorpion. Both a sci-fi, but in totally different ways.

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