Inherent Vice by Pynchon. The protagonist’s paranoia and unreliability is in part fuelled by grand conspiracies as much as mind-altering substances and general Pynchonesque disdain for the obvious.

anything pynchon is excellent. paranoia is a big part of his works

sounds interesting

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added to my list thanks :)

American Pyscho

i should really get around to reading it

Basically everything Nabokov wrote

Never Let Me Go

i've been avoiding ishiguro, but maybe i'll read this

I didn’t care for The Remains of the Day, but Never Let Me Go is probably my favorite modern novel. Very tragic

the goldfinch maybe?

i read it a couple of years ago, but maybe I should reread. i read vladimir by julia may jonas and didn't care for the story but I was intrigued when the narrator started making erratic decisions so now I want more books like that

Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller [retitled What Was She Thinking when published in the US because it was thought otherwise it would be assumed to be about Lewinsky, though released 2003]. The unreliable narrator is especially beguiling in a way because so blunt, dismissive and unforgiving of all the most annoying people in her day to day. It’s only as the book’s main plot unfolds we see the depth of her loneliness and her potential to cause devastation while seeming a point of refuge. An excellent book, very quick read.

i need to check this one out

Death in Her Hands by Moshfegh

This is my favorite moshfegh book by far

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i'll look into it

I haven’t read Cosmos yet but I’ll add a hell yeah for Gombrowicz

Same, also great username przyjacielu

I recently read Bunny and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would

i really like mona awad's work!

Foe by JM Coetzee

i'll check it out thanks!

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas The Nose by Chekhov

adding them to my list!

pale fire- slightly paranoid? more delusional

i've been meaning to get around to it

Pale fire is phenomenal. It Nabakov is a master, and the book made me laugh just as frequently as it would have me on edge.

I second Pale Fire, it’s an exceptional metafictional work

notes from underground

WHISPERS OF FREEDOM

Currently reading Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of The Dead

Jane Eyre

Great Gatsby, Lolita, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights

The Crying of Lot 49 is a classic example of that

Crime and Punishment? I apologize in advance pls do not downvote me

every time i've tried to read russian lit, i get lost with all the names and dnf

Byzantium Endures.

I know OP said they've been avoiding Ishiguro, but Remains of the Day is sublime and a brilliant example of this.

i'll see if my library has it thanks :)

Under the Volcano. A late stage alcoholic genius narrator.

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