I think I'm drawn to stories with large-scale mysteries – where the way the world itself works is part of the unfolding plot.
I think this is why I like a lot of Brandon Sanderson's novels, or hard sci-fi like Project Hail Mary.
(I'm *not* into anything that could be classified as horror, or even particularly 'grimdark', though).
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisen.
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Giver was like this for me. It’s marketed to young adults, but I very much enjoyed it.
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
Scholomence and Uprooted, both by Naomi Novik? (Unrelated). There’s mysteries involved in the dark magic school and the evil forest, respectively.
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
Hyperion
Embassytown and The City & the City by China Mieville
The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper
The Last One and The Chamber by Will Dean