The Castle of Otranto is notable for a few reasons: 1) it is considered one of the first pieces of gothic literature, 2) it constituted a literary hoax, in which the author, Horace Walpole, claimed to have translated an ancient text which he in fact authored himself; when he came clean, Otranto‘s fans became its critics, and last but not least, 3) a man dies on his wedding day after a giant helmet falls out of the sky and crushes him. 5/10

“It taught me it‘s your right to hate me, Bigger. I see now that you couldn‘t do anything else but that. It was all you had.”
(Quotes are from two different characters but I found both to be powerful. Native Son is excellent, complex, and radical even today.)