I have Paul Lynch’s “Prophet Song” next up on my fiction stack, but I think I’m going to skip that for now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet_Song

Prophet Song - Wikipedia

I read “Random Acts of Senseless Violence” (Womack) in 2016, and that did not help my mood back then either.
The fiction stack seems ready to commit random acts of senseless violence anyways, so maybe I just skip ahead to the Scurati and split it there.
@davidschlangen I just reread Use of Weapons, and it was generally good for my mood, if you discount the last few chapters.