What's some good paranoid fiction? Not necessarily conspiracy stories but stories about more or less delusional and schizoid characters.
What's some good paranoid fiction...
Pynchon
There was a story about a fresco in an apartment that was in occupied territory and the characters acted unnaturally out of fear that they were being listened in on for the entire story until they were arrested. I don't remember the name though, sorry.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
I love Dick
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Any PKD will do. Paranoia and general mindfuckery was his main schtick.
ws burroughs
the bible :^)
read ken erdedy's first episode in IJ before disposing of it into a fireplace
A Scanner Darkly seems to be closer to what OP is looking for.
there are doors
my diary desu
I think VALIS is absolutely the thing OP is looking for. Its paranoia is staggering.
Hunger - hamsun
Notes from the underground, crime and punishment to some extent - Dostoevsky
The latter stages of the invisible man - Ralph Ellison.
Literally Pynchon you illiterate
everything Pynchon has ever done is explicitly about paranoia
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Gaiman's Neverwhere.
I enjoyed The Turn of the Screw
Haha So gay And random.
fuck, are you stalking me?
Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
Don Delillo - Libra
it does both. conspiracy story, and historical fiction of a schizoid character in LHO
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
pkd had actual paranoid psychosis
You might also like "Hammer and Sickle" by Delillo
The Trial
Crying of Lot 49
You fucking kidding me with this shit? No.
Murakami is not paranoid. He is like hanging out with Mr Muyagi on morphine.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey, Chief's pretty paranoid at the start. If you've already read it, read it again.
Basically any text written by Phillip k. Dick.
The Magus - John Fowles.