My favorite three books are:
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
I was always able to read the short stories of:
Edgar Allen Poe, H P Lovecraft, Flannery O'Connor, Jorge Luis Borges
I don't like:
the House of Leaves or anything by David Foster Wallace or Haruki Murakami
by chasesj
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I’d recommend checking out The Prince of Nothing and The Aspect-Emperor by R Scott Bakker and Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council by China Mieville.
If you’re interested in dark military fantasy, The Black Company by Glen Cook and Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson