I was recently thinking about the Ari Aster film Beau is afraid and although it was hard to get through I enjoyed it and how his reality was pretty much completely shaped by his anxiety. I’ve read books like Lolita and Something Happened so I’m not as much looking for the narcissist false sense of reality.
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* *The Wasp Factory* by Iain Banks – disturbing and surreal, with a protagonist whose worldview unravels hard by the end
* *American Psycho* by Bret Easton Ellis – you’re never fully sure what’s real, and that’s the whole point
* *We Have Always Lived in the Castle* by Shirley Jackson – claustrophobic, unreliable, and soaked in delusion
* *Solaris* by Stanisław Lem – sci-fi but deeply psychological, reality bends under grief and memory
* *House of Leaves* by Mark Z. Danielewski – the structure itself messes with your sense of what’s real, let alone the characters’