suggest a novel that seems straightforward but contains inconspicuous

Nabokov's Pnin is subtle like that

>>9428528
thx, it never occured to me to read other stuff than lolita until now.

the whole saramago ouvre...but he isn't exactly subtle, he often puts the ambiguity straight into the title

>>9428518
every DeLillo novel that isn't obviously not straightforward

>>9428518
Book of the new sun
borges

harry potter

>>9428528
>muh bowl
Pnin eh? where's the radically different interpretation in that one?

Peace by Gene Wolfe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_(novel)

Pale fire

>>9428518
Good Soldier Svejk, Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Don Juan, Chromos, Augie March, the list goes on, and on and on.

Chronic City by Jonatham Lethem, at first it stroke me as shit for hipsters that wanted to feel cool and the thinkers of tomorrow, but then the twisted meanings (like having a robotic tiger be rumpling around the city but never actually showing it, then making one wonder if it's real or not) got me into thinking and the end made me despair. One hell of a read that can only cast a spell on you on the first read

thanks for all the recs

house of leaves

>>9428518
Turn of the Screw

the catcher in the rye, I guess

>>9428518
Read the Bible

An Artist of the Floating World

>>9428712
this desu

also DFW's Oblivion collection

Pavane - Keith Roberts

>>9428695
the hidden meaning is drumpf is voldemort and we (the democrats) are gryffindor

>>9428518
"The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene

>>9428528
what? I thought it was just unfunny, did I not get it?

>>9430784
nope, it was unfunny. there's no subtlety there.