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East of Eden by Steinbeck is great. I found it very approachable, and the characters very familiar.

Parable of the Sawer by Octavia E. Butler, science fiction. Collapse of society, survival etc. Pretty bleak.

The Burried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Nominally fantasy, but not really. Great, like his other books.

A short stay in hell (sci-fi): A modern take on Library of Babel. Pretty dark. Quick read.

“Developer hegemony” expands this very well.

Small things like these (fiction). Set in 1900s Ireland, atmospheric. I learned about Magdalene laundries from this book.