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    I fed my cluttered list into deepseek AI and asked it to organise it. it's a list of literary fiction novels I'm interested in. please suggest which one should I read next.

    Fiction

    · 2666 – Roberto Bolaño

    · A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

    · A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

    · A Girl Returned – Donatella Di Pietrantonio

    · A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

    · A Nearby Country Called Love – Salar Abdoh

    · All Living Things – Munir Hachemi

    · Almond – Sohn Won-pyung

    · American Pastoral – Philip Roth

    · American Elsewhere – Robert Jackson Bennett

    · And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini

    · Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

    · Anthills of the Savannah – Chinua Achebe

    · Apple Knife – Amra Džeko

    · At Night All Blood Is Black – David Diop

    · Babel – R.F. Kuang

    · Beauty Is a Wound – Eka Kurniawan

    · Beloved – Toni Morrison

    · Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

    · Blue Lorries – Radwa Ashour

    · Breasts and Eggs – Mieko Kawakami

    · Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín

    · Butter – Asako Yuzuki

    · Celestial Bodies – Jokha Alharthi

    · Clockers – Richard Price

    · Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata

    · Creation Lake – Rachel Kushner

    · Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon

    · Cultish – Amanda Montell

    · Dancer from the Dance – Andrew Holleran

    · Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver

    · Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee

    · Downriver – Iain Sinclair

    · Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk

    · East of Eden – John Steinbeck

    · Elena Knows – Claudia Piñeiro

    · Em and the Big Hoom – Jerry Pinto

    · Enter Ghost – Isabella Hammad

    · Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid

    · Factory – Hiroko Oyamada

    · False War – Carlos Manuel Álvarez

    · Family Lexicon – Natalia Ginzburg

    · Fever Dream – Samanta Schweblin

    · Flesh – Khan

    · Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

    · Fresh from the Grave – Ninon

    · Funny Boy – Shyam Selvadurai

    · Gate of the Sun – Elias Khoury

    · Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin

    · Gilead – Marilynne Robinson

    · God of the Woods – Liz Moore

    · Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake

    · Gravity's Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon

    · Great Indian Brain Rot – Riju

    · Hangwoman – K.R. Meera

    · Heaven – Mieko Kawakami

    · Hell Screen – Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    · Hollow Places – T. Kingfisher

    · Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi

    · Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon

    · Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector

    · House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

    · Hurricane Season – Fernanda Melchor

    · I'll Be There – Shin Kyung-sook

    · In the Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado

    · In the Miso Soup – Ryu Murakami

    · Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

    · Inspector Imanishi Investigates – Seicho Matsumoto

    · Intermezzo – Sally Rooney

    · Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

    · Jesus' Son – Denis Johnson

    · Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton

    · Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck

    · Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 – Cho Nam-joo

    · Knockemstiff – Donald Ray Pollock

    · Lady Tan's Circle of Women – Lisa See

    · Lanark – Alasdair Gray

    · Last Days – Brian Evenson

    · Last House on Needless Street – Catriona Ward

    · Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin

    · Little Heaven – Nick Cutter

    · Lincoln: A Novel – Gore Vidal

    · Living Things – Munir Hachemi

    · Maa – Independent People – Halldór Laxness

    · Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann

    · Maps – Nuruddin Farah

    · Martyr! – Kaveh Akbar

    · Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

    · Mending Bodies – Zubair Ahmad

    · Middlemarch – George Eliot

    · Minor Detail – Adania Shibli

    · Moby Dick – Herman Melville

    · Moderato Cantabile – Marguerite Duras

    · My Annihilation – Fuminori Nakamura

    · My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante

    · My Dreadful Body – Tina

    · My Struggle – Karl Ove Knausgaard

    · No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai

    · North Water – Ian McGuire

    · Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

    · Notes of a Crocodile – Qiu Miaojin

    · On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong

    · Our Share of Night – Mariana Enriquez

    · Out – Natsuo Kirino

    · Outer Dark – Percival Everett

    · Pachinko – Min Jin Lee

    · Palace of the Peacock – Wilson Harris

    · Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler

    · Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire

    · Penguin Book of International Short Stories

    · Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

    · Piranesi – Susanna Clarke

    · Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

    · Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir

    · Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones – Tim Reiterman

    · Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

    · Red April – Santiago Roncagliolo

    · Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust

    · Republic of Caste – T. Revathi

    · Restoration – Ave Barrera

    · Road – Cormac McCarthy

    · Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward

    · Satantango – László Krasznahorkai

    · Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolaño

    · Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih

    · Secret History – Donna Tartt

    · Seductive Poison – Deborah Layton

    · Sellout – Paul Beatty

    · Seven Surrenders – Ada Palmer

    · Shadow King – Maaza Mengiste

    · Shadow Ticket – Alessandro

    · She Waits Where Shadows Gather – K.R. Meera

    · Short Stay in Hell – Steven L. Peck

    · Signs Preceding the End of the World – Yuri Herrera

    · Sisters in Yellow – Hana

    · Sleepwalkers – Hermann Broch

    · Stoner – John Williams

    · Sula – Toni Morrison

    · Sunburn – Chloe Michelle Howarth

    · Surface Detail – Iain M. Banks

    · Swimming in the Dark – Tomasz Jedrowski

    · Taiga – Kyoko

    · Taiwan Travelogue – Yang Shuang-zi

    · Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu

    · Tangerinn – Emanuela Anechoum

    · The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton

    · The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence Durrell

    · The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler

    · The Anthropologists – Ayşegül Savaş

    · The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

    · The Bengal Reader

    · The Berry Pickers – Amanda Peters

    · The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth – Veeraporn Nitiprapha

    · The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat

    · The Book of Disappearance – Ibtisam Azem

    · The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

    · The Castle – Franz Kafka

    · The Cipher – Kathe Koja

    · The Coin – Yasmin Zaher

    · The Corpse Washer – Sinan Antoon

    · The Covenant of Water – Abraham Verghese

    · The Croning – Laird Barron

    · The Cult at the End of the World – David E. Kaplan

    · The Dangers of Smoking in Bed – Mariana Enriquez

    · The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio

    · The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin

    · The Door – Magda Szabó

    · The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

    · The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree – Shokoofeh Azar

    · The Executioner's Song – Norman Mailer

    · The Factory – Hiroko Oyamada

    · The Famished Road – Ben Okri

    · The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargas Llosa

    · The Girls – Emma Cline

    · The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

    · The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

    · The Hollow Places – T. Kingfisher

    · The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector

    · The Human Stain – Philip Roth

    · The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai

    · The Last Man – Maurice Blanchot

    · The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt

    · The Long Ships – Frans G. Bengtsson

    · The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai

    · The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa

    · The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy

    · The Moustache – Emmanuel Carrère

    · The Moviegoer – Walker Percy

    · The Murderess – Alexandros Papadiamantis

    · The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern

    · The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran – Shida Bazyar

    · The North Water – Ian McGuire

    · The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell

    · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas – Ursula K. Le Guin

    · The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq

    · The Pearl That Broke Its Shell – Nadia Hashimi

    · The Petty Demon – Fyodor Sologub

    · The Remainder – Alia Trabucco Zerán

    · The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald

    · The Road – Cormac McCarthy

    · The Secret History – Donna Tartt

    · The Shadow King – Maaza Mengiste

    · The Shadow Ticket – Alessandro

    · The Son – Philipp Meyer

    · The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern

    · The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard

    · The Tunnel – William H. Gass

    · The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce

    · The Vegetarian – Han Kang

    · The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt

    · The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

    · The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson

    · The Wedding People – Alison Espach

    · The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga

    · Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

    · Things We Lost in the Fire – Mariana Enriquez

    · Thousand Plateaus – Deleuze & Guattari

    · Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu

    · Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis

    · Time of the Assassins – Godfrey

    · To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

    · Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin

    · Train Dreams – Denis Johnson

    · Train Whistle Guitar – Albert Murray

    · Trans-Atlantyk – Witold Gombrowicz

    · Trees – Percival Everett

    · Unclaimed Terrain – Ajay Navaria

    · Vineland – Thomas Pynchon

    · War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

    · We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson

    · We Love You, Bunny – –

    · White Noise – Don DeLillo

    · Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson

    · Wizard of the Crow – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

    · Women Without Men – Shahrnush Parsipur

    · Yasmin Zaher The Coin – –

    · Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marías

    · Zeroville – Steve Erickson

    Non-Fiction & Poetry

    · Aime Césaire – Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

    · Angela Davis – Women, Race & Class

    · Bhagat Singh – Jail Notebook

    · Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

    · Caste – Isabel Wilkerson

    · Didion – Play It As It Lays

    · Fighting Fascism – –

    · Going Clear – Lawrence Wright

    · Grit – Angela Duckworth

    · Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon

    · How Not to Die – Michael Greger

    · Ishmael – Daniel Quinn

    · Kabir – Poems

    · Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann

    · Malcolm X – Autobiography

    · Myth of the Holy Cow – D.N. Jha

    · On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder

    · Palestinian Cookbook – Joudie Kalla

    · Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire

    · Priestdaddy – Patricia Lockwood

    · Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz

    · Republic of Caste – –

    · Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis

    · The Bengal Reader

    · The Dictator's Handbook – Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

    · The Executioner's Song – Norman Mailer

    · The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Short Stories & Anthologies

    · Aesop's Fables

    · Borges – Labyrinths

    · In a Grove – Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    · Penguin Book of International Short Stories

    · Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

    · The Dangers of Smoking in Bed – Mariana Enriquez

    · Things We Lost in the Fire – Mariana Enriquez

    BOOK SUGGESTIONS BASED ON YOUR COLLECTION

    Your library shows strong interests in: translated literary fiction, horror with literary merit, Japanese/Korean literature, queer literature, speculative fiction, and sociopolitical works. Here are targeted recommendations:

    If you love Ottessa Moshfegh, Han Kang, and Mieko Kawakami:

    · Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (you have this—try Earthlings)

    · Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo (you have this)

    · The Vegetarian by Han Kang (you have this—try Human Acts)

    · Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (you have this—try All the Lovers in the Night)

    If you love Mariana Enriquez's horror:

    · The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (you have this)

    · Things We Lost in the Fire (you have this)

    · Our Share of Night (you have this)

    · Try: Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

    If you love Japanese literary fiction:

    · Out by Natsuo Kirino (you have this)

    · In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (you have this)

    · The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (you have this)

    · Try: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

    If you love Ursula K. Le Guin:

    · The Dispossessed (you have this)

    · The Left Hand of Darkness (you have this)

    · Try: The Word for World is Forest, The Lathe of Heaven

    If you love Latin American literature:

    · Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (you have this)

    · Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (you have this)

    · Try: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán

    If you love queer literature:

    · Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (you have this)

    · In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (you have this)

    · Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski (you have this)

    · Try: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, Real Life by Brandon Taylor

    If you love speculative/dystopian:

    · Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (you have this)

    · The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (you have this)

    · Try: The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh, The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

    If you love Indian literature in translation:

    · Hangwoman by K.R. Meera (you have this)

    · The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (you have this)

    · Try: A Death in Delhi by Neeraj, Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

    If you love existential/postmodern fiction:

    · Stoner by John Williams (you have this)

    · The Tunnel by William H. Gass (you have this)

    · Try: The Loser by Thomas Bernhard, The Lime Twig by John Hawkes

    If you love literary horror:

    · Last Days by Brian Evenson (you have this)

    · Little Heaven by Nick Cutter (you have this)

    · Try: The Fisherman by John Langan, The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan

    If you love African literature:

    · Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (you have this)

    · At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (you have this)

    · Try: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

    If you love short story collections:

    · The Penguin Book of International Short Stories (you have this)

    · The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (you have this)

    · Try: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Hidden gems based on your eclectic taste:

    · The Employees by Olga Ravn (corporate sci-fi)

    · The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (epic Georgian family saga)

    · The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)

    · A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola)

    · The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar (Iranian magical realism – you have this)

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