ITT: Books that use fancy words

I like these books because they expand your vocabulary. My suggestion goes to, of course, Gene Wolfe.

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