I’ve just finished My Year of Rest and Relaxation and really liked it. Before that one I read I’m Thinking of Ending Things and that one was great too, though not as good as the movie. Some other novels I really enjoyed in the past:
Ubik, Three Stigmata…, Flow my Tears (most of PKD really)
The crying of lot 49 (Tried GR and it was just too challenging)
Martin Eden
Of Mice and Man
1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World
Most Remarque novels (Night in Lisbon, Three Comrades, Black Obelisk etc.)
Steppenwolf
The Master and Margarita
White Noise
The Sun Also Rises
Two novels I’m thinking of reading are The left hand of darkness and East of Eden.
Thanks!
by Cocoa_Lapin
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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
East of Eden is one of my all time favorites, so I personally don’t think you can go wrong there.
It seems you also like kind of experimental/post-modern fiction (like I’m Thinking of Ending Things and The Crying of Lot 49). You might give *This Thing Between Us* by Gus Moreno and *The Archive of Alternate Endings* by Lindsey Drager a try.
Also, if you haven’t read either of Julia Armfield’s books (*Private Rites* and *Our Wives Under the Sea*), they could be a good pick as well for kind of ambiguous weird vibes (FWIW, I liked *Our Wives Under the Sea* a LOT and thought *Private Rites* was only okay, if you’re looking for where to start).
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
The Stranger, by Albert Camus