I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and your year is off to a great start as well!<3 A few years ago, I did something that was probably inadvisable and read Hitchhiker's Guide in one sitting. Well, not really, but I sped through it in a day or two (or three?) instead of trying to stretch it over a period of weeks which I feel like you should do with a tome of its size haha.

Flowers for Algernon KILLED me when I read it as a kid, and I read it again a few years back too. It's exactly as you said. Poor Charlie and Algernon.

Kafka is one of my friend's favorite Murakami books, but I never read it even though I read his other works! I'll have to check it out as well as all the other recs you mention which sound very, very interesting. *heads off to Goodreads to add them so I don't forget* :)