So many people recommending A Little Life, which is great if you like terribly-written, unrealistically plotted, utterly homophobic trauma porn. If you like books to actually be, you know, not those things, then Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings is what you need.

Reading A Brief History of Seven Killings now, thoroughly recommend it!

Seconding “A Brief History of Seven Killings” just a gobsmacking experience but I would also speak up for NYRB’s 1-volume edition of Vladimir Sorokin’s absolutely crazy “Ice Trilogy.”

Since Pynchon is already here (heartily seconded), I'll add A Place of Greater Safety, Anniversaries (newer, two-volume translation) or A Brief History of Seven Killings. The first for a deep thriller that belies its weight, the second if you really want the book to rewrite you.