Novels of Religious Paranoia and/or Ontological Psychosis

No one understands my insistence that this is my favorite thing, so here’s a list (one per author for brevity). Please send suggestions.

• Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
• Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty
• Álvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires
• Amelia Gray, Threats
• Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
• Anna Kavan, Ice
• Brian Catling, Earwig
• Brian Evanson, The Open Curtain
• Carlton Mellick III, Razor Wire Pubic Hair
• Charlie Kaufman, Antkind
• Chris Kelso, The Black Dog Eats The City
• Danger Slater, I Will Rot Without You
• Drew Magary, The Hike
• Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood
• Franz Kafka, The Trial
• Garrett Cook, Archelon Ranch
• Gary Shipley, Dreams of Amputation
• George Mangels, Frank’s World
• Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
• Georges Perec, A Void
• Giorgio De Maria, The Twenty Days of Turin
• Gore Vidal, Messiah
• Harold Bloom, The Flight to Lucifer
• Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
• J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World
• Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
• Joe Orton, Head to Toe
• John Pistelli, Portraits and Ashes
• Jordan Krall, Humanity Is The Devil
• Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-bas
• José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night
• Joyce Gary, The Horse’s Mouth
• Kem Nunn, Unassigned Territory
• Kevin L. Donihe, House of Houses
• Kirk Jones, Die Empty
• Kōbō Abe, Secret Rendezvous
• Leonard Wolf, The False Messiah
• Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
• Lina Meruane, Seeing Red
• Lucius Shepard, A Handbook of American Prayer
• M. John Harrison, The Course of the Heart
• Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
• Martin Amis, Other People
• Matt Hlinak, DoG
• Matthew Revert, Basal Ganglia
• Matthew Stokoe, Cows
• Michael Cisco, Animal Money
• Michael J. Seidlinger, The Fun We’ve Had
• Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
• Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid
• Mónica Ojeda, Nefando
• Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
• Sebastian Castillo, Salmon
• Sjón, The Blue Fox
• Stanisław Lem, Solaris
• Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
• Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
• Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
• Vladimir Sorokin, Blue Lard
• Will Self, My Idea of Fun
• William H. Gass, Omensetter’s Luck
• William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch