I'm reading Moby Dick, which is actually incredible even though the kind of woke racism is hard to parse and interpret.
I'm also reading "Red Revolution, Green Revolution" about agriculture and science in the early days of the Mao's China. It's also really fucking good.
Blood Meridian
Felt like triggering existential depression idk why
fucking brutal book, but I'm a Cormac McCarthy stan
The atmosphere in that book is so bleak and heavy, in some ways it was a harder read than The Road.
Definitely, especially because most of it is true (at least the broad strokes)