The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

This postmodern mystery follows Oedipa Maas as she uncovers a potential underground conspiracy while settling a former lover's estate. The narrative utilizes sexual taboos, sacrilege, and profanity to satirically critique 1960s American culture and existential paranoia. 

 

This book contains: alcohol, alternate gender/sexual ideologies (adjacent themes), animal cruelty (minor), anxiety, bribery, controversial and inflammatory commentary, cults, death, deception, demonic content (themes), depression, derogatory terms, desecration and consumption of human remains (adjacent themes), drugs, drugging, dubious consent, explicit sexual activities/nudity, fetishes, incapacitated sexual assault, incest (themes), paranoia, parental neglect, pedophilia (themes), predatory behavior, porn, profanity, prurient content, suicide ideation, theatrical/metatextual violence, stealing and voyeurism.