what are some of the more obscure/underrated books from classic/popular

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jercy kosinksi "steps"

iam rereading it now

Most of Huxley's works

"One Hand Clapping" by Anthony Burgess
"Her" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Heller's "Something Happened
Golding's "The Inheritors"
Selby's "The Room"

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Lesser Known Works by Famous Authors

Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac (1831)
Demons/The Possessed/The Devils by Dostoevsky (1871)
The Forged Coupon and Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (1910, 1912)
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1931)
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse (1931)
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov (1935)
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947)
The Fall by Albert Camus (1956)
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (1958)
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams (1960)
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata (1962)
October Ferry to Gabriola by Malcolm Lowry (1970)
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979)
Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago (1982)
Blow-up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar (1985)
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1988)
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (1995)
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (1997)
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano (2000)
Seeing by Jose Saramago (2004)

>>9997856
not all of these are "better" than the authors' main works per se (though some certainly are) but they're generally of a high caliber and deserve to be read more than they are, thanks to the shadowing effect of the major works

>>9997856
>Lesser Known Works by Famous Authors

>Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac (1831)
nomen est omen :^)

Oblivion by DFW
Corrections by Thomas Bernhard

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Huysmann's La Bas is far better than the 'canonical' A Rebours (Against Nature).