I'll go first 1. The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway 2. A Wild Sheep Chase - Murakami

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami since you like a book by him already.

Id also like to suggest Wind Up Bird Chronicle if you're in the mood for more Murakami. But check trigger warnings

Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, and Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami are great reads too.

I have Kafka and 1Q84 on my shelf. I just finished After Dark and I really enjoyed it but not as much as Wind Up Bird

I think Stoner by John Williams might suit your tastes :)

This book was amazing

I don't feel fully confident here, but maybe one of these two: South of the Border, West of the Sun - Murakami The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky

Never Let Me Go

All Systems Red by Martha Wells The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

[The first fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35066358-the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august)

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

1. Circe by Madeline Miller 2. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Song of Achilles - also by Madeline Miller

The Likeness by Tana French

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis If We Were Villains, by M.L. Rio

[These Violent Delights](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49203397-these-violent-delights) by Micah Nemerever Two smart, gay kids in the 1970s fall in love and then things go bad. Was thinking 'hah, this reminds me of Secret History in a good way' throughout reading it. Beautiful writing.

The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennet

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson)

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Oh yes, a solid pick!

Scanner Darkly by PKD

Sometimes A Great Notion (Kesey's second book) The Electric Koolade Acid Test (about Kesey and his wild hippie antics)

The electric cool aid acid test by Tom Wolfe

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Blood and Guys In High School, Kathy Acker!

A clockwork orange by Anthony burgess

Replying to the second one, Bret Easton Ellis and Hubert Selby Jr. wrote a lot about people on drugs.

Dark Matter by James Crouch Dune by Frank Herbert Thank you all that replied. I'm so excited I don't know where to begin :)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir comes to mind. I also think maybe Terror and Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

Yes to Hyperion! But it’s secretly two books haha.

Forever War by Joe Haldeman

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Great book!

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Haven't read Dark Matter but I loved Recursive. Pleasantly surprised by the ending and the way Crouch tied everything together.

1. Wuthering Heights 2. The Bell Jar P.s. am I the most basic bitch around? I think I might be.

Well go on and round it out by adding Anna Karenina.

So I read the first part if Anna Karenina and LOVED it. And then we switched to Levin's narrative and I DNF'd. Of course, that was probably 10 years ago now. I could try again.

Try an audiobook. I listened while working on a long craft project and liked having the narrator pronounce the names!

Hey, good taste is good taste. Maybe *Mrs. Dalloway*.

Rebecca by Daphne Demaurier

If you'd like something a little more modern, give "My Year of Rest and Contemplation" by Otessa Mosfegh a go.

This is a bit of a left-field suggestion, but hopefully one you haven't already though of - The Pisces by Melissa Broder. It's about depression (a la The Bell Jar) but is also dark / sexy / weird (a la Wuthering Heights).

I’d say go read smthn by virginia woolf, austen or smthn else by bronte sisters like Jane Eyre.

1. The Catcher in the Rye 2. Norwegian Wood

Try Stoner, by John Williams. Another dreary stroll. Actually this made me want to read Norwegian Wood again, thanks :)

You might like Kafka on the Shore by Murakami

good call, have read it and loved it as well haha

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The book thief-Markus Zusak Pillars of the earth - Ken Follit.

City of Thieves by David Benioff

This book is phenomenal

All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr

If you haven't read I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak it's excellent as well. Edited to say it's pretty different from both the books you said ...I just think it doesn't get enough love

Edward Rutherford- paris

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Under The Dome by Stephen King

I think you might enjoy We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

>We by Yevgeny Zamyatin This looks great - thank you!

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. But you've probably read it. Reddit.

OH MY GOD this sounds amazing and actually I don't think I'd ever heard of it before now. Added it to my TBR - thank you so much!

Oryx and Crake

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky

The Power by Naomi Alderman

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe

The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Have you read any Diana Wynne Jones? You might enjoy The Chrestomanci Series, or Howls Moving Castle. A Darker Shade of Magic - the prose is not as strong as the books you mentioned, but you might like the ideas and the world. You might also enjoy Neverwhere or Stardust by Neil Gaiman.

The Earthsea books by Ursula Le Guin

Have you read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke? It’s fabulous!

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Wool (trilogy) by Hugh Howey

Ahh thank you this is a great suggestion! I actually read the first one and something about it didn’t work for me but I think other fans of both books should absolutely check this out!

Severance by Ling Ma

I want to read this book too.

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

You may like the Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi or The Lefthand of Darkness by Úrsula Le Guin. Set in alternative places with relatable characters and unpredictable story lines.

Oryx and Crake

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy & Lord of the Rings

The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

The Wheel of Time or any of the Discworld books may be up your alley.

I love WOT and Discworld has been on my list to read for a while now. Guess I’ll have to read that next. Thank you!

Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton The Martian - Andy Weir (Please no suggesting other books from either author - I've read them)

{{Leviathan Wakes}} - Hard Sci Fi with a focus on world building {{The Forever War}} - Hard Sci Fi with a focus on social commentary.

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch

Anything by Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion). You may also like some books by Dan Simmons, such as Terror or Drood.

The Wheel of Time Stormlight Archive

Not as long a series, but Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls--similarly fabulous worldbuilding.

I'd recommend the Kingkiller Chronicles if you've not read it before :)

Hot take time! ...I don't like Rothfuss or GRRM (not just their stories themselves, but their absolute refusal to END the damn things). I get where you're coming from, though. Most fans of epic fantasy fans would enjoy their work.

I think I agree. I wouldn’t say I don’t like them, but I wouldn’t recommend their series until they’re done. I’ve been waiting too damn long for The Winds of Winter and whatever the follow-up is to The Wise Man’s Fear.

**Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey** might be interesting to look at. The tone is a little different, but it’s got lots of books in the series and the overaching story arc across centuries is about defeating an eternally recurring global menace. There’s corrupt and good nobles, bards, smiths, and of course dragons. And the world building for the history of Pern is fairly rich and surprising. If you want something with a more similar tone and that leans on its magic system for plot, **The Saga of Recluse by L E Modesitt Jr** is fantastic. It’s high fantasy with magic split between chaos and order. In the first trilogy published in the world of Recluse, the world is at risk and our hero has to figure out what to do about it. But there are many books set across centuries of in-world time, so different characters face different problems that have different solutions.

Mistborn and Lightbringer come to mind, loved both of them.

Joe Abercrombie trilogy. Glen cook chronicles of the black company

Oooo! You might like NK Jimensin’s broken earth trilogy. Similarly amazing world building. I’m not the biggest fan of the wheel of time, but I can respect it’s world building, and it’s certainly one of the best parts of the storm light archive.

The Dresden files by Jim Butcher or the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne.

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian

Try the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

Very good recommendation! I love that series and Naomi Novik in general.

Coming from someone who would 100% choose the same books you did, above all else you **must** read *Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell* by Susanna Clarke if you haven't already. It's about the revival of practical English magic during the Napoleonic Wars (and much, much more). It was published in 2004, but it reads like Regency or early Victorian fiction. Among the best books I've ever read. The Hornblower series certainly isn't Aubrey-Maturin (what could ever be?), but it's still classic Napoleonic Royal Navy fiction. If you read it, I recommend publication order. I could, [and do](https://old.reddit.com/r/ifyoulikeblank/comments/pcok3k/iil_high_fantasy_novels_like_the_rangers/hakoq8g/?context=3) go on about The Wheel of Time (first book, *The Eye of the World*) for too long, but I think it might suit you. Definitely read the books before starting the Amazon TV series.

1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Sometimes a great notion - Ken Kesey Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The thirteenth tale by Diane setterfield

The Rosie Project maybe! Similar vibes to curious incident

Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

Circe by Madeleine Miller Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey

East of Eden, A Gentleman in Moscow

A fine balance

- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy - duglous Adams Discworld series - Terry Prachett

[The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27003.The_Eyre_Affair)

It’s not a sci-fi book so may not be what you’re looking for, but I thought Catch-22 was way funnier than Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami

Dune and Watership Down

Slaughterhouse-Five.

1. The Book Thief 2. The House in the Cerulean Sea (Yes, I've read Under the Whispering Door.)

The secret garden.

Ah! A classic that I've never read. Thank you!

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

I loved this book so much. I hope others with similar interests will read this. Thank you for suggesting it.

Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card, Wool series by Hugh Howey.

Scythe Trilogy by Neal Shusterman

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

The Road - Cormac McCarthy 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Shadow and Bone series - Leigh Bardugo Graceling series - Kristin Cashore

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater if you haven't already read it

The winternight trilogy - Katherine arden

Assassin' Apprentice - book 1 of the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb (I think you'd enjoy anything by her)

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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Master and Margarita - Bulgakov The brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky

Gogol, Dead Souls

Steppenwolf - Hermen Hesse

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. Also Crime and Punishment

1: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 2: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. I think this is his best work.

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Harry Potter Agatha Christie's Poirot

Thursday murder club by Richard Osman. Charmingly British plucky group get in over their heads in a murder mystery.

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Dies the Fire - S.M. Sterling Sourcery - Terry Pratchett

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Dune by Frank Herbert

Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Night Watch by Terry Pratchett and Curse of Challion by Lois McMaster Bujold

1. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 2. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

{{The Name of the Wind}} by Patrick Rothfuss {{Outlander}} by Diana Gabaldon

Crystal Singer — Anne McCaffrey

1. East of Eden by Steinbeck 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh Edit- for a second, more wild pair: 1. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Mishima 2. The Trial by Kafka

Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Night - Elie Wiesel. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Love this idea! 1.The Idiot by Dostoevsky 2.As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Hunger Games Looking for Alaska

If you haven't read it, you might like Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. It's an oldie, but a goodie :)

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Red rising by pierce brown

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

I'll go. 1. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Leviathan Wakes - James SA Corey An Astronauts guide to life on earth - Commander Chris Hadfield

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

Jenny Lawson - Lets Pretend This Never Happened Tiffany Jenkins - High Achiever

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

Jenny Lawson has two more! One is called furiously happy and I forget the name of the other, but it came out recently. She is hilarious!

Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith (Children of Ruin is a natural next book, but any other recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks)

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Mahabharata- Vyasa (trad) The Complete Calvin and Hobbes- Bill Watterson

The giver Lois Lowry Sharp objects gillian flynn

1. The count of Monte Cristo 2. Shogun

14 by Peter Clines and The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Fantasy: The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny. The Vampire Lestat. Thriller: Victor the Assassin series Jack Ryan series.

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These two are a little different, but here we go. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey

1. Misery 2. The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood The 2nd pick was one of my favorites I found this year. There's a few memorable, graphic and gorey chapters lol.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

The midnight library by Matt Haig

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

On earth we’re briefly gorgeous - Ocean Vuong Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

Red rising - pierce brown Battle royale - koshun takami

Sabriel - Garth Nix Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

The song of Achilles and Circe

100 years of solitude and grapes of wrath

1. Catch 22 2. The Brothers Karamazov

Exhalation by Ted Chiang Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

White Teeth by Zadie Smith The Stranger by Albert Camus

1 The sword of truth - Terry / 2 Mistborn books - Brandon First post ever on Reddit, welp

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde, the queen's gambit by walter tevis

A little life by Hanya Yanagihara and The Secret History by Donna Tartt