I'd also suggest a Knut Hamsun novel, HUNGER
As well as:
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole
(I enjoyed Ondaatje's IN THE SKIN OF A LION which you had in your list...read it 21 years ago after receiving it as a departing gift from an American girlfriend who'd studied here in Scotland a few months. Haven't thought of the book in years, nice to be reminded!)
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