Best introspective books?

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Also does anyone know any books with protagonists that are insecure about how intelligent they are?

>>8522851
being and time

>>8522857
>protagonists are insecure about intelligence
Read John Green. Even though he is the author this feeling is also seen in his characters

>>8522851
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg, the story of a telepath who is coming to terms with losing his powers. Yes it's SF, yes it's a literary work.

>>8522851
Apparently Locke was a libertine fuck machine, and Newton was an autistic robot. But they were friends, and Newton never wanted to hang because Locke would always make him uncomfortable by trying to get him laid. So Newton eventually stopped answering his calls and went full NEET, focusing on alchemy, black majic and so on.

I read that, so yea, whatever that's worth.

>>8523041
holy... I want more

>>8522851
A Rebours by Huysmans
Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky
In Search of Lost Time by Proust

>>8522884
>answering his calls
Almost had me.

Nonetheless, you get 2/10 for putting in the effort.

Middlemarch is great, simple events and happenings blown up to the umpteenth degree and turned into a full psychological study on nothingness.

Probably more then half the books focused on the inside happenings.

The Magic Mountain
Brothers Karamazov

Descartes and many of the continental Rationalists are some of the first guys to expound on the idea of knowledge being gained from introspection rather than public dialogue.