Blindness

How it reads

Blindness is classics (literary dystopian fiction, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. It's a slow burn: character-driven, with a payoff that comes from accumulation rather than twists. It rewards attention and suits unhurried reading more than five-minute gaps.

It's set in a big city setting, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are survival, identity and loss and grief. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 349 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.