Anything that captures existence well: I enjoy Herman Hesse, Milan Kundera, Franz Kafka, Irvin Yalom, Dostoyevsky, Paulo Coelho (on the fence 50/50)
Feel free to also suggest me not so well known psychology/philosophy/existentialist books as well
(Most recent read: Frank Tallis – The act of living)
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Blindness by Saramago is grimdark like Crime and Punishment. All the Names by him is more playful like Kundera and Kafka but more straight forward.
I’m reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier right now and it reminds me of ULoB, but in a 19th century British lit kind of way. Good book, though, fun and interesting.
You might like The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol. It’s a short story but it’s existential.
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. Introspective and philosophical work that consists of fragments, reflections, and observations.
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi. Levi is known for his Holocaust memoirs, this is an essay collection about the ethical questions surrounding the Holocaust and human behavior.
While I think you might enjoy 100 Years of Solitude or Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I was absolutely thrilled to discover Peter Carey. Try Bliss to start – it has those elements of *litost* I remember from Kundera – then work out to the rest of his stuff.
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko