Like the title! I've been getting back into reading for pleasure, and want to know what you like! I recently read Piranesi and loved it. I've heard good things about The Poppy War and Babel by R.F. Kuang, has anyone read them?
Generally just want a bunch of recommendations from your favorites, on our commie corner of the internet. No genre needed! 
I agree. Some people take the message to be "People suck. Man sucks and is evil. The judge is just man incarnate so he sucks and is evil and thinks he owns the world." I think it cuts deeper than that in a way I might have to read the book again to say eloquently.