Looking for a book...

Ive been trying to figure out a book to read to help deal with my depression (in an indirect way). Generally I read Stephen King, David Eddings; fiction. What I mean by indirect, is that I want a book to make me feel as though I have just read something that will undoubtably change my outlook on my perception of how my life is heading, without it being an actual book for helping deal with depression.

If anyone can recommend anything, I would greatly appreciate it.

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

You will truly see how sick people are in this world once you get done,and how uncaring.

Did you just want to read fiction? My outlook on alot of things has been impacted by some non-fiction books I have read. Alot of them deal with surviving seemingly unsurmountable odds, being pushed to the edge, learning about the human spirit etc... Don't know if this is what you had in mind, if so I have some titles.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom would be my first pick, followed by Boy's Life by Robert McCammon...Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes is another good one.

The Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Reading about prison conditions in the U.S.S.R. is a good reminder of how miserable life can be simply by being born at a bad time. And then hopefully you feel better because you aren't one of those people.

The Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson

This is a story of frustration and helplessness for a man that is getting smaller by about an inch per week and it ends in a way that you wouldn't expect. Its message is one you might find useful.


The Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Of the three books I listed this is the most upbeat by far. A book about the good, the evil and the fantastic in our world.

I loved "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" by James Patterson.