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What's some good paranoid fiction? Not necessarily conspiracy

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What's some good paranoid fiction? Not necessarily conspiracy stories but stories about more or less delusional and schizoid characters.
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Pynchon
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>>9312777
There was a story about a fresco in an apartment that was in occupied territory and the characters acted unnaturally out of fear that they were being listened in on for the entire story until they were arrested. I don't remember the name though, sorry.
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>>9312777
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
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>>9312870
I love Dick

Wait a sec
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>>9312870
this

Any PKD will do. Paranoia and general mindfuckery was his main schtick.
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ws burroughs
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the bible :^)
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read ken erdedy's first episode in IJ before disposing of it into a fireplace
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>>9312870
A Scanner Darkly seems to be closer to what OP is looking for.
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>>9312777
there are doors
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my diary desu
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>>9312870
>>9313080
I think VALIS is absolutely the thing OP is looking for. Its paranoia is staggering.
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>>9312777
Hunger - hamsun
Notes from the underground, crime and punishment to some extent - Dostoevsky

The latter stages of the invisible man - Ralph Ellison.
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>>9312777
Literally Pynchon you illiterate
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everything Pynchon has ever done is explicitly about paranoia

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>>9312777
Gaiman's Neverwhere.
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I enjoyed The Turn of the Screw
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>>9312876

Haha So gay And random.
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>>9313137
fuck, are you stalking me?
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Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
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Don Delillo - Libra
it does both. conspiracy story, and historical fiction of a schizoid character in LHO
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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pkd had actual paranoid psychosis
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>>9315324
You might also like "Hammer and Sickle" by Delillo
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The Trial
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>>9312777
Crying of Lot 49
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>>9315321
You fucking kidding me with this shit? No.

Murakami is not paranoid. He is like hanging out with Mr Muyagi on morphine.
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>>9312876
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>>9312777
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey, Chief's pretty paranoid at the start. If you've already read it, read it again.
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>>9312777
Basically any text written by Phillip k. Dick.
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>>9312777
The Magus - John Fowles.
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