The Tiger by John Vaillant. True story of a Siberian tiger that developed a grudge against area hunters in the 1990s and the team that had to take it down. Informative and gripping.

Ramsey Bolton has to be a contender.

My thoughts exactly. Cathy had very few choices in life, and it seemed to me that she just wanted to be left alone (and to a be a dominatrix, which Steinbeck seems to think is the epitome of evil, lol). The part where he writes that Cathy, as a ten year old girl “seduces” TWO fourteen year old boys is disgusting. He really writes the boys as the victims in that situation. I almost stopped reading the book at that point because I knew anything else he wrote about Cathy was going to be through the lens of a pedo apologist.

Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille (sometimes translated as “The Dirty Dust” or “Graveyard Clay”) is narrated in a really interesting way. Without spoiling it, the (mostly) main protagonist is speaking from their grave to others who are also in theirs. Newly dead are added as the story continues. The dead aren’t mobile, so it’s voices/ thoughts only, as I recall (which takes some getting used to) but the dialogue is very rich, and often hilarious.