>>28894687Not that anon but there are plenty of good books with great characterisation. Here are a few of my favourites.
Modern fiction
NK Jemisin's Fifth Season and the Obelisk Gate
Daniel Abraham's The Dagger and Coin series and Long Price Quartet
Seth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Comorant
Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan
CS Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy
Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey
Classics
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
The first two books of the Hyperion Cantos
Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth
Zelazny Roger's The Chronicles of Amber
Orwell's 1984
Strugatsky Roadside Picnic
William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy
Phillip Dick's Do the Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Short fiction
Brian Aldiss' Super Toys Last All Summer Long
Arthur C. Clarke - The Nine Billion Names of God