I'm running out of books - Literary fiction recommendations please.

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I'm rapidly reaching the end of my "To Read" book list. The problem is that I have no idea what to read next, nothing is really grabbing me.

I love literary fiction, especially if its depressing 😛

I'm not that keen on period classics. I'm not sure why, I just struggle to get into them. So I'm after something from C20 and beyond.

To give you an idea - I loved loved loved "The Luminaries" and "A Little Life". I'm waiting for Ngozi Adiche's new one to be out in paperback. I've read the whole of Ishiguro's back catalogue.

I hated "The Vegetarian", "Brotherless Night" was alright but "Enter Ghost" and "Orbital" both bored me to absolute tears.

What shall I read next? HELP!

Well, there's considerably more human-to-human cruelty (it's an incredibly bleak novel, even for Coetzee), but from what I remember, and I haven't it since it came out, there is a scene where house intruders shoot dogs, and instances where dogs are euthanised, because one character runs a boarding kennel and another a rescue shelter in post-apartheid SA.

Thank you for the warning ⚠️

I'll give it a go. The only book I've ever cried at was "The People in the Trees" where Yanagihara described the lab beagles.
Human on human cruelty in books I can cope with 😬