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And just for the record, furthermore, Day of the Triffids is one serious piece of literature, definitely one of my unwritten top ten favorite novels of all time (something I find truly hard to list because I am throwing away so many deserved books). As mentioned before, Garland and Boyle basically removed the triffids and green meteorite showers that left the majority of the living human populace blind with that of a contagious rage virus and "zombies" however DotT has so so much more, alot of memorable and original pieces wound within this tale. A major work of literature, can't believe this was written in 1951, a voice so startlingly contemporary with readers today.
How about Nevil Shute's On The Beach, about survivors of WWIII in Australia, whom know nuclear winter and death is inevitable, and attempt to resume to live normal lives.
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Robert McKenna's The Sand Pebbles--a story of a US Navy gunboat assigned to China during the early 1900s when communism was spreading there. The story of a misfit sailor trying to cope with the war and his private demons in a land of great beauty and a time of great turmoil.
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I noticed someone suggested American Psycho by Ellis, I think a different one of his novels, Less than zero, is more suitable for your requirements.
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Gloomy Books
Right now, I'm in the middle of reading Rabbit, Run by John Updike. So far, it's pretty gloomy, but it's also pretty degrading towards women, so if you have any qualms about that you might want to avoid it.
Asides from that, all I can think of is A Separate Peace by John Knowles.
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Thanks a lot to everyone. If anyone thinks of any more don't hesitate to list them. :)
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Postcards by E Annie Proulx
World's End by T C Boyle
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Camp Of The Saints by Jean Raspail
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"Someplace to Be Flying" Charles de Lint
"Neverwhere" Neil Gaiman
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I second Aiculík's suggestion: read Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.
If you decide to read this book, however, you might want to read a few relevant short stories first, such as Borges' "The Library of Babel" and Poe's "The Purloined Letter." Best wishes!
