Hunger by Knut Hamsun

It's hard to categorize books into one genre or another.  Some of them are too good to be chunked with all the others.  The title of this one, Hunger, says it all.  The twisting effects of true jabbing hunger.  This is a character you want to root for at times, but you can't, but you do anyway.  At least that's how it worked for me.  Knut Hamsun originally wrote the book in Norwegian.  It translates well.  Hunger is universal.