Can someone please recommend any modern (early 20th century to present times) books about decent, well-adjusted characters? I don't want to read about degenerates who are wallowing in their own shit (that's what I find in pretty much all "serious" literature), and I don't want to read about chad heroes who may never exist in reality. I just want to read about someone who is reasonably moral, has self-discipline and is not an idiot - the values that most conform to my petit-bourgeois view of the world.
Books about decent human beings
Elijah Ramirez
Parker Johnson
Stoner by John Williams. Even though he does get fucked over by his cunt wife.
Joshua Perry
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Brayden Thomas
"San Manuel Bueno, Mártir" is a fantastic story about a great but humble man, a priest who is a beacon of hope for the people of his small village despite not having any faith in God himself, and desperately seeking it. Despite struggling to believe that He exists, he keeps it all to himself as to not perturb his people's blind faith and keeping them happy and morally adjusted.
Nicholas Anderson
Submission by Michel Houllebecq, unless you consider prostitution immoral, protag does visit a few
Christian Thomas
Melville's Ishmael espouses a philosophy of life that is very comfy to me
James Davis
based
Logan Gray
>Michel Houllebecq
This is exactly the textbook definition of modernist degeneracy.
Luke James
Yeah, but the protag is a fairly normal guy in that book.
Brandon Kelly
Yeah, normal people are degenerates. We're looking for well-adjusted protagonists. Frankly, sounds like it'd make for a boring book.
Chase Lopez
Gilead 110%
a big thanks to the user recommending that book some time ago, really glad i read it
Lucas Sanders
>A book about decent, well-adjusted characters? Try this book about a self-hating, friendless porn addict.
Justin Lee
Unironicaly Levin and Kitty in Anna Karenina. Also Kitty's parents iirc, and most her family.
Many characters in CHekov's short stoies, the majority are degenerates but Chekov often offers a counterpoint.
Pickwick in Dickens's pickwick Paper.
To a lesser extent Turnbull in Chesterton's The Ball and the Cross. Also the father of the French girl, whatever his name.
The priest of Torcy in Bernanos' diary of a country priest.
Surprisingly Marlowe in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, despite his crazy adventures, is very wholesome and reasonable though he gets through some rough shit.
There are quite a few women like that in Dostoievsky, mostly the protag mothers (for instance in the Adolescent).
Thomas Robinson
That's because he raped her
Henry Hill
>well adjusted
Yea Forums is really bad at this.
Hunter Ramirez
notes from underground
Josiah Hill
Does Yea Forums consider Bloom a degenerate? He has a certain quiet dignity to him
Samuel Baker
Most everything Faulkner wrote fits your requirements, albeit, from a dysfunctional, southern, viewpoint.
White Noise by DeLillo might fit the bill, also.
Slaughterhouse 5, by Vonnegut follows a normie through some shit times that's out of his control.
Most normie's will fall into the idiot category at one time or another. That's what makes them normie. ( petit-bourgeois, in your terms)
Connor Powell
>Faulkner
>Southern degenerates commit adultery and then suicide, and that's only if they're not murdered. Often involves incest, miscegenation, necrophilia, or some sexual deviancy
>Slaughterhouse 5
>A traumatized veteran has uncontrollable trauma flashbacks and hallucinates about fucking a pornstar in a 4th dimensional human zoo
>decent, well-adjusted characters
Nathaniel Smith
nah thats a meme and didnt happen and shes a cunt from the beginning anyway
Nathaniel Anderson
The Old Man and the Sea is good. Or read Patrick O’Brien’s novels
Carson Rivera
Although not always explicitly about it, a lot of Balzac and Flaubert stories are about basically upright people, even if they do bad things
Brayden Martinez
Parade’s End.
Tietjens is precisely whom you’re looking for.