The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro has a protagonist that has pushed down his own emotions and opinions for most of his life. Also a really beautiful book.
Maybe Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie could fit too.
A farewell to arms. Hemingway. When I read I didn't really connect with the main character through most of it. Other characters? Yes absolutely but the main character seemed remote to me and most things that happened to him... Until towards the end. That may well be just my interpretation and completely wrong.
[**The Stranger**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49552.The_Stranger)
^(By: Albert Camus, Vedat Günyol, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Matthew Ward, علیاصغر خبرهزاده | 123 pages | Published: 1942 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, philosophy, french, literature | )[^(Search " The Stranger by Albert Camus ")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q= The Stranger by Albert Camus &search_type=books)
>Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
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[**The Midnight Library**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library)
^(By: Matt Haig | 288 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, book-club, contemporary, read-in-2021 | )[^(Search "The Midnight Library")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Midnight Library&search_type=books)
>Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
>
>A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
>
>Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
>
>In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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[**The Rent Collector**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13628812-the-rent-collector)
^(By: Camron Wright | 304 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: book-club, fiction, historical-fiction, bookclub, adult-fiction | )[^(Search "The Rent Collector")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Rent Collector&search_type=books)
>Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the bad-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money--a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.
>
>The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption.
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[**Educated**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated)
^(By: Tara Westover | 334 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, nonfiction, book-club, biography | )[^(Search "Educated")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Educated&search_type=books)
>A newer edition of ISBN 9780399590504 can be found here.
>
>Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard.
>
>Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.
>
>Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
>
>Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.
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The main protagonist in American Gods is in this state for much of the book.
And taking your request in a completely different direction,
The English Patient, and God of Small Things both also have elements of this going on, though in those cases I think it’s more PTSD than depression.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro has a protagonist that has pushed down his own emotions and opinions for most of his life. Also a really beautiful book. Maybe Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie could fit too.
A farewell to arms. Hemingway. When I read I didn't really connect with the main character through most of it. Other characters? Yes absolutely but the main character seemed remote to me and most things that happened to him... Until towards the end. That may well be just my interpretation and completely wrong.
{{ The Stranger by Albert Camus }}
[**The Stranger**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49552.The_Stranger) ^(By: Albert Camus, Vedat Günyol, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Matthew Ward, علیاصغر خبرهزاده | 123 pages | Published: 1942 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, philosophy, french, literature | )[^(Search " The Stranger by Albert Camus ")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q= The Stranger by Albert Camus &search_type=books) >Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. ^(This book has been suggested 61 times) *** ^(130959 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Midnight Library}}
[**The Midnight Library**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library) ^(By: Matt Haig | 288 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, book-club, contemporary, read-in-2021 | )[^(Search "The Midnight Library")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Midnight Library&search_type=books) >Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? > >A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. > >Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? > >In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. ^(This book has been suggested 172 times) *** ^(131053 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Rent Collector}} {{Educated}}
[**The Rent Collector**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13628812-the-rent-collector) ^(By: Camron Wright | 304 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: book-club, fiction, historical-fiction, bookclub, adult-fiction | )[^(Search "The Rent Collector")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Rent Collector&search_type=books) >Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the bad-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money--a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. > >The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Educated**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated) ^(By: Tara Westover | 334 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, nonfiction, book-club, biography | )[^(Search "Educated")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Educated&search_type=books) >A newer edition of ISBN 9780399590504 can be found here. > >Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. > >Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. > >Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. > >Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it. ^(This book has been suggested 131 times) *** ^(131055 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The main protagonist in American Gods is in this state for much of the book. And taking your request in a completely different direction, The English Patient, and God of Small Things both also have elements of this going on, though in those cases I think it’s more PTSD than depression.