What are some essential novels that explore the nature of reallity,

>>9676743
Dostoyevsky's The Double. While reading it I felt like I was going insane. It's elegant and insidious and it makes Pynchon's stream of consciousness look leaden and contrived.

gravity's rainbow

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is okay I guess

>>9676743
house of leaves

My diary desu

>>9676844
Nice, thanks
>>9676852
Already read it
Is good but the paranoia was kind of dumbed down
>>9677119
Seems memey

>>9677345
House of Leaves is great, fuck what /lit/ says. Johnny Truant's story is vastly underrated.

>>9677345
>Seems memey

define what you mean

>>9677537
It seems very gimmicky

>>9676743
How challenging is Valis? I hear it's his most difficult work.

>>9678759
Not OP but I would recommend to read first "A scanner darkly" then "Radio Free Albemuth", both from K.Dick dealing with those themes.

I really enjoyed the Divine Invasion, but I read it out of order
Also, Infinite Jest (unironically)

1984

>>9676743
Martian Time slip. Dick worked very hard on the subject you are looking for.

One flew over the cookoo's nest. besides the "hippies fighting the man" association the book got, it actually creates a realistic and interesting mental patient. Worth a read if you haven't given it one yet

>>9678759
Is not that hard, is just disturbing