I'd recommend Mary Renault: Fire From Heaven, Persian Boy, etc. Brilliant stuff!
Other favs, old and recent reads:
Night's Master - Tanith Lee Parable of the Sower - by Octavia Butler Affinity - by Sarah Waters Kushiel's Dart - by Jacqueline Carey Lilith's Brood (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) - Octavia E. Butler Tom Jones - Henry Fielding A Room With a View - E.M. Forster The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
I'd also recommend just about all of Storm Constantine's books. Which ones depends on what you like. The first book in her Grigori series, Stalking Tender Prey, is a modern version of a gothic horror novel, set in an isolated English village, and might appeal to you, esp. if you've had to read "straight" gothic horror.
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Other favs, old and recent reads:
Night's Master - Tanith Lee
Parable of the Sower - by Octavia Butler
Affinity - by Sarah Waters
Kushiel's Dart - by Jacqueline Carey
Lilith's Brood (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) - Octavia E. Butler
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
I'd also recommend just about all of Storm Constantine's books. Which ones depends on what you like. The first book in her Grigori series, Stalking Tender Prey, is a modern version of a gothic horror novel, set in an isolated English village, and might appeal to you, esp. if you've had to read "straight" gothic horror.