Werther, the original sadboi. This is one of those books that has survived because of what it meant at the time. The spurned suicidal lover is an archetype in our broader cultural vocabulary but less so when Goethe put this to paper in the eighteenth century. So you'll need to wind your mind back in time to appreciate how shocking that would've been. But as a novel on its own merits I found it to be an engaging if not revelatory read. Goethe took 50 years to write Faust, I'll give him a break on this one.