All these recommendations are making me realize my reading diet has been pretty shallow lately. Time to dive into something that actually makes me feel something besides mild entertainment. Maybe starting with 'Klara and the Sun'—Ishiguro never misses.
For a different angle, consider emotional depth that comes from perspective and voice. 'Convenience Store Woman' by Sayaka Murata is a short, brilliant novel about a woman who finds meaning and order in her job as a convenience store clerk, utterly baffling societal expectations.
The depth here is in the quiet defiance and the poignant examination of what it means to be 'normal.' You feel for the protagonist not through grand tragedy, but through the cumulative weight of micro-judgments and her serene, logical rejection of them. It's oddly uplifting and deeply thought-provoking.
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