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In my experience, books usually clearly demarcate good and evil. We usually tend to follow protagonists which are either good from the start or turn into a good person by the end of the series/novel. However, the real world definitely doesn't function like that. Almost everyone has some good and some evil within them.

I personally only know about Game of Thrones and Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. What about you? What was one such book you read that reflected this moral greyness/evilness among the protagonist(s) and would recommend to everyone who asks?

There are literally so many books that sport morally dark and grey characters and some of them pull it off really nicley.
The ones I can think of are:
1. Six of crows (Kaz Brekker)
2. Shadow and Bone (Darkling)
3. A Darker shade of magic (Lila bard)
I know others but this is all I can think of right now.

I decided to do a quick look at the meaning of the word and I would like to say that I have an author that does it in a number of his books. Thought I am would wrong. Brandon Sanderson is an author of several books that comes close to mind.

Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground might work. It's not a long book about a man at war, I think, with himself. Or, a man who imagines or is portraying someone who is at war with his own "superior" self with a conscience.

Vicious by V.E. Schwab is good.