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Melissa Broder

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Melissa Broder is the author of the novels DEATH VALLEY, MILK FED and THE PISCES, the essay collection SO SAD TODAY, and five collections of poems including SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems and LAST SEXT.

Her books have been translated in over ten languages.

She lives in Los Angeles.

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Average rating: 3.53 · 126,760 ratings · 22,009 reviews ·18 distinct works •Similar authors

	Milk Fed 3.57 avg rating — 61,761 ratings — published 2021 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pisces 3.30 avg rating — 31,464 ratings — published 2018 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Sad Today: Personal Essays 3.80 avg rating — 16,032 ratings — published 2016 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death Valley 3.50 avg rating — 16,366 ratings — published 2023 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Sext 3.26 avg rating — 821 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meat Heart 4.04 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superdoom: Selected Poems 3.38 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarecrone 4.14 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother 3.76 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dust Moan 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I wake up scared and I'm scared all day. I'm scared of being scared. Scared of" losing it ". Scared of not being able to function. Scared of being hospitalized. Scared that I am not okay. Scared of what life is and if I am wasting mine. Scared that I have no home - that even the place I call home has no bottom to it and I will just keep falling under and under and under.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

tags: anxiety, depression, mental-illness

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“There aren’t many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places. Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It’s your fault we’re here to deal with the void in the first place.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

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“I fear others will discover that I am not only imperfect; I’m not even okay. I fear that I truly am not okay. But most people who meet me never know that I am struggling. On the outside I am smiling. I am juggling all the balls of okayness: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, existential. Underneath, I am suffocating.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

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On Basilisk StationbyDavid Weber(Space Opera)

36 votes 19.6%

The Beekeeper's ApprenticebyLaurie R. King(Historical Fiction/Mystery)

33 votes 17.9%

The PiscesbyMelissa Broder(Paranormal Romance)

26 votes 14.1%

The Unlikeable Demon HunterbyDeborah Wilde(Urban Fantasy)

26 votes 14.1%

The Wedding DatebyJasmine Guillory(Contemporary Romance)

16 votes 8.7%

Her Purrfect MatchbyMilly Taiden(Paranormal Romance)

14 votes 7.6%

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and VirtuebyMackenzi Lee(YA Historical Fiction ) (write-in)

12 votes 6.5%

The BeguiledbyThomas Cullinan(Historical Fiction)

9 votes 4.9%

One for the MoneybyJanet Evanovich(Contemporary Mystery)

6 votes 3.3%

184 total votes

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