I read The City & the City by China Miéville. If I were to recommend it, it would be because the author's English vocabulary is so much fuller than my own. I had to keep a dictionary handy to get through most of it and I appreciated the challenge.
Do you use a Kobo with Koreader installed?
I've been using a Kindle Paperwhite for a few years and while I love the screen, I've gotten tired of being tied to Amazon and have started looking at alternatives.
They made a TV adaptation of it, I think they managed quite well given how difficult it is to visualise some of the concepts.