I've been getting back into recreational reading over the last year or so. Some books I've thoroughly enjoyed include:
We Could be Rats — Emily Austin
Convenience Store Woman — Sayaka Murata
Tender is the Flesh — Agustina Bazterrica
Sweetbitter — Stephanie Danler
My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Otessa Moshfegh (For clarity: I highly disliked the undertones of antisemitism or fatphobia, but I'm a big fan of the very clinical method of writing featured)
and (outliers): Be More Chill, and It's Kind of a Funny Story, both by Ned Vizzini.
I like when books contain small but noticeable departures from reality, unreliable narrators or narrators with strong personalities, and more clinical/formatted styles of writing. Weird thing, but I loved when Otessa Moshfegh's characters start listing stuff off like a lab report, or when the main character of Convenience Store Woman gets really formulaic with her reports of what the convenience store is like. Idk what that says about me, but I find it charming.
by NefariousnessOk2666
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h{{Beta Vulagaris}} ( also has some fatphobia)
h{{Bunny by Mona Awad}}
h{{alone with you in the ether}}
h{{the dinner party by viola van de standt}}