Looking for crime novels which wouldn't be found in the crime section, or aren't typical genre material. Something similar to these:
- Crime and Punishment (1866) – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Therese Raquin (1881) – Émile Zola
- The Secret Agent (1907) – Joseph Conrad
- The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) – G.K. Chesterton
- The Trial (1925) – Franz Kafka
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) – Alfred Döblin
- Marketa Lazarová (1931) – Vladislav Vančura
- Hangover Square (1941) – Patrick Hamilton
- Intruder in the Dust (1948) – William Faulkner
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1965) – Yukio Mishima
- The Driver's Seat (1970) – Muriel Spark
- The Black Prince (1973) – Iris Murdoch
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1974) – Heinrich Böll
- Falconer (1977) – John Cheever
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) – Gabriel García Márquez
- The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) – Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Wasp Factory (1984) – Iain Banks
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) – Tom Wolfe
- The New York Trilogy (1987) – Paul Auster
- Libra (1988) – Don DeLillo
- The Book of Evidence (1989) – John Banville
- Clockers (1992) – Richard Price
- A Heart So White (1992) – Javier Marías
- Operation Shylock (1993) Philip Roth
- Alias Grace (1996) – Margaret Atwood
- Inherent Vice (2009) – Thomas Pynchon
by russalex86