This one made a great movie also, unlike the others, which made only fair movies, in spite of being good stories. Literature One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is one of my favorite favorite books. The Milagro Beanfield War, by John Nichols Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland , is just as good as you remember it, if not better. Joyce Carol Oates. Although her writing is dark, it is pithy, and will get to your core.
Frequent themes are incest, and violence of other types, but the presentation is pure art.
Siddhartha and Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse, were so good that I went from there to read about everything published in English by Hesse. John Barth, Giles Goat Boy, Chimera, and The Sot Weed Factor. The Sot Weed Factor is the best of hysterical historical novels. Chimera is Mr. Barth having fun with 1001 Arabian Nights, and Giles Goat Boy is a must read for all college students. Giles Goat Boy is a bit of work to read, but to satirize the university system, it must be somewhat cumbersome to work.