Malcom Lowry‘s Under The Volcano is a phenomenal novel about addiction, but it‘s an immensely demanding read. Pre 2000, also.

You know that „he held let out a breath he didn‘t know he was holding“ thing authors always use? When I was done with the last paragraph of that book, I did exactly that.

Some that come to mind for me:

1. The last paragraph in One Hundred Years of Solitude

2. The first paragraph in The Haunting of Hill House

3. The monster‘s tale in Frankenstein