I'm a big nerd and I've read a lot of books of all different kinds, and I'm an English teacher.
Tell me what you like or what you're looking for and I'll recommend something I think is good
Also, fun history fact, this comm used to be called c/books until I started posting poetry on main every day in protest of there not being a literature comm. Direct action gets the goods comrades
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollmann
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole
This isn't quite what you're asking about but it is about an alcoholic and is very good: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore