I like these books because they expand your vocabulary. My suggestion goes to, of course, Gene Wolfe.
ITT: Books that use fancy words
Clark Ashton Smtih
Beckett’s early stuff written in English has me reaching for a dictionary often. Murphy is fun.
lotsa will self
he's pretty much know for his sesquipedalianism
Coming from a non English speaking country, I have to agree with you, OP. I've read 'harder' books but I constantly had to stop my reading to learn a word or two with this book.
Virginia Woolf
Blood Meridian
>BoTNS
great first suggestion tbph. it's what i would have said
instead, i will say Moby Dick
>expanding your vocabulary with made up words
>Being such a word babby that you think any of those words are made up, with the exception of "naviscaput" which maybe he did make up after all
I nominate Austerlitz
China Mieville is also great at this. Heresiarch, sclerotic, animadvert, shadchan, benthos, oneiric, alterity, etc.
isn't he a communist
>not realizing all words are made up
Basically, yeah
Tha bibble
>Book of the New Sun
>made up words
>Claim all the words in the book are used somewhere in 20th century english
>Alzabo is a latinized version of the arabic word for hyena that no one ever used before
Nice try Gene
/GrandiloquentBooks/
>are used somewhere in 20th century english
i don't recall him saying that and i don't have a copy onhand to check it against
there are definitely more than a few non-english words
Thank goodness
Cactus Tortillas Yecarthy
Revolt Against the Modern World
He claims it in the appendix to Shadow of the Torturer I think