Looking for something gripping and hard to put down to keep me entertained, but also "deep" (can't think of a better word) and philosophical to make me think. I usually prefer dark/depressing books or if the themes aren't dark then reflective/emotional/sad atmosphere. I also prefer slow-paced (yes, slow-paced books can still be gripping) but I know I own some fast-paced stuff and I'm willing to try them out as well. Also I usually prefer character/setting/theme driven as opposed to plot, but anything's fine really.
I plan to make a google form of everyone’s suggestions when I get enough, so please comment!
-Excession
-The Wasp Factory
-The Sense of an Ending
-Jane Eyre
-Wuthering Heights
-Ham on Rye
-The Soft Machine
-If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
-Heart of Darkness
-Dhalgren
-Underworld
-Crime and Punishment
-Notes from Underground
-The Name of the Rose
-Dengerous Visions
-American Tabloid
-Light in August
-Neuromancer
-The Wall
-The Scarlet Letter
-Catch-22
-A Prayer for Owen Meany
-Never Let Me Go
-We Have Always Lived in the Castle
-The Haunting of Hill House
-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
-Ulysses
-Into Thin Air
-The Dispossessed
-The Left Hand of Darkness
-Sea of Tranquility
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
-The Passenger/Stella Maris
-Perdido Street Station
-A Canticle for Leibowitz
-Kafka on the Shore
-The Crying of Lot 49
-Gravity's Rainbow
-Mason & Dixon
-Eversion
-The God of Small Things
-The Catcher in the Rye
-Blindness
-Hamlet
-King Lear
-Macbeth
-Othello
-East of Eden
-The Grapes of Wrath
-The Secret History
-Vanity Fair
-Anna Karenina
-Bluebeard
-Murderbot Series
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Stoner
-Native Son
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