My favorite books tend to be ones that throw you straight into the world without much exposition. I enjoy having to figure things out on my own, even if I'm left confused at times, because the author is doing minimal spoon-feeding.
My favorite book is The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas, in large part because of the way a series of seemingly disconnected threads from an unreliable narrator all come together in the end in a hard-hitting way.
I'd love some recs that are in a similar vein. TIA!
by clemonysnicket
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Patricia McKillip’s The Sorceress and the Cygnet was like that for me.
*Neuromancer* by William Gibson is like this. It’s a sci-fi novel set in the future, and it’s written as if the reader were from that future world. And it’s definitely impactful, if commentary on technocapitalism is your thing.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
*The Bone Clocks*, by David Mitchell
Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
Pirinisi, by Susanna Clarke. Maybe Piranesi?
*[House of Leaves](https://a.co/d/7tc0hJK)* by Mark Z. Danielewski might be what you’re looking for.
If you are not against sci-fi – “The Player of Games” by Iain M Banks drop you right in the middle of civilizational conflict using game as a medium. A familiar concept but… full extent of which you may realize only after connecting everything, even in relation to your own life if you so desire.
Actually, other books from this series can also feel like that. Maybe they all are. “Use of Weapons” probably even better pick for what you specifically looking, but… well, it’s more own thing with less connectivity to our real world.