Literary Fiction Books
Literary fiction prioritizes language, structure, and psychological depth over plot mechanics. These are novels where sentences do real work, themes run beneath the surface, and ambiguity is a feature rather than a flaw. The genre includes everything from minimalist realism to maximalist postmodern experimentation.
767 books
Dystopian
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村上春樹
Literary Fiction
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Roberto Bolaño
Literary Fiction
84, Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff
Literary Fiction
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul
Literary Fiction
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers
Literary Fiction
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas
Literary Fiction
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Non-Fiction
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Literary Fiction
A Grace Paley Reader
Grace Paley
Literary Fiction
A Heart So White
Javier Marías
Literary Fiction
A History of Burning
Janika Oza
Literary Fiction
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Literary Fiction
A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby
Literary Fiction
A Month in the Country
Literary Fiction
A New Selected Poems
Galway Kinnell
Literary Fiction
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oe
Literary Fiction
A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza
A Scarcity of Love
Literary Fiction
A Scarcity of Love
Anna Kavan
Fantasy
A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid
Literary Fiction
A Sunny Place for Shady People
Mariana Enriquez
Literary Fiction
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
Literary Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities
Literary Fiction
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Literary Fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
Literary Fiction
A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum
Historical Fiction
Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn
Literary Fiction
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan
Literary Fiction
Acts of Service
Lillian Fishman
Literary Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Literary Fiction
After Nature
W.G. Sebald
Literary Fiction
Afterparties
Anthony Veasna So
Literary Fiction
All Fours
Miranda July
Literary Fiction
All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Literary Fiction
All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker
Literary Fiction
Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy
Horror
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Literary Fiction
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fantasy
An Academy for Liars
Alexis Henderson
Literary Fiction
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary Fiction
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
Anuradha Roy
Fantasy
An Education in Malice
S.T. Gibson
Fantasy
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon
Literary Fiction
An Untamed State
Roxane Gay
Literary Fiction
Anatomy of a Miracle
Jonathan Miles
And Quiet Flows the Don
Literary Fiction
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
Literary Fiction
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
Literary Fiction
Animal
Lisa Taddeo
Literary Fiction
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Literary Fiction
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Literary Fiction
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
Literary Fiction
Annie Bot
Sierra Greer
Anthill
Literary Fiction
Anthill
Edward O. Wilson
Literary Fiction
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
Literary Fiction
Arrow of God
Literary Fiction
Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane
Literary Fiction
Assembly
Natasha Brown
Literary Fiction
Astragal
Albertine Sarrazin
Literary Fiction
Asylum
Patrick McGrath
Literary Fiction
At Swim, Two Boys
Jamie O'Neill
Literary Fiction
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Literary Fiction
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Literary Fiction
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Literary Fiction
Audition
Katie Kitamura
Science Fiction
Axiomatic
Greg Egan
Literary Fiction
Bad Habit
Alana S. Portero
Historical Fiction
Baudolino
Umberto Eco
Literary Fiction
Bear and His Daughter
Robert Stone
Literary Fiction
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
Literary Fiction
Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
Literary Fiction
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Literary Fiction
Bestiary
K-Ming Chang
Literary Fiction
Betty
Tiffany McDaniel
Literary Fiction
Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
Literary Fiction
Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
Literary Fiction
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
Alberto Manguel
Literary Fiction
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
Blindness
José Saramago
Literary Fiction
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Over Bright Haven
Fantasy
Blood Over Bright Haven
Emily Tesh
Literary Fiction
Bones and All
Camille DeAngelis
Literary Fiction
Boyfriend Material
Alexis Hall
Fantasy
Brida
Paulo Coelho
Literary Fiction
Bride
Ali Hazelwood
Literary Fiction
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Literary Fiction
Briefly, A Delicious Life
Nell Stevens
Contemporary Fiction
Britt-Marie Was Here
Fredrik Backman
Literary Fiction
Brotherless Night
V. V. Ganeshananthan
Science Fiction
Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson
Literary Fiction
Buckeye
Patrick Ryan
Literary Fiction
Butcher's Crossing
John Williams
Science Fiction
California
Edan Lepucki
Literary Fiction
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Romance
Call Me by Your Name
Andre Aciman
Literary Fiction
Candide
Voltaire
Historical Fiction
Cane River
Lalita Tademy
Science Fiction
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Contemporary Fiction
Catalina
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Literary Fiction
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Historical Fiction
Cathedral
Ben Hopkins
Science Fiction
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Literary Fiction
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
Literary Fiction
Chemistry
Weike Wang
Comedy
Choke
Chuck Palahniuk
Literary Fiction
Christ in Concrete
Pietro di Donato
Literary Fiction
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Literary Fiction
Cinema Love
Jiaming Tang
Literary Fiction
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Literary Fiction
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Historical Fiction
Cloud of Sparrows
Takashi Matsuoka
Historical Fiction
Clytemnestra
Costanza Casati
Literary Fiction
Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au
Historical Fiction
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
Literary Fiction
Colored Television
Danzy Senna
Literary Fiction
Come and Get It
Kiley Reid
Historical Fiction
Conjure Women
Afia Atakora
Literary Fiction
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
Literary Fiction
Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
Literary Fiction
Counting Descent
Clint Smith
Literary Fiction
Country Dark
Chris Offutt
Literary Fiction
Cracking India
Bapsi Sidhwa
Literary Fiction
Crash
J. G. Ballard
Literary Fiction
Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
Literary Fiction
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crooked Plow
Literary Fiction
Crooked Plow
Itamar Vieira Junior
Non-Fiction
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Non-Fiction
Cryptonomicon
Historical Fiction
Cuddy
Benjamin Myers
Literary Fiction
Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
Literary Fiction
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
Literary Fiction
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Literary Fiction
Dancer from the Dance
Andrew Holleran
Literary Fiction
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
Literary Fiction
Days of Distraction
Alexandra Chang
Literary Fiction
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
Dear Edward
Literary Fiction
Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano
Literary Fiction
Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh
Literary Fiction
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Literary Fiction
Dept. of Speculation
Literary Fiction
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
Mystery
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Deepa Anappara
Non-Fiction
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Literary Fiction
Doc
Mary Doria Russell
Literary Fiction
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Literary Fiction
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Literary Fiction
Don't Erase Me
Carolyn Ferrell
Literary Fiction
Dragonwyck
Anya Seton
Literary Fiction
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dream State
Contemporary Fiction
Dream State
Eric Puchner
Literary Fiction
Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina García
Literary Fiction
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Literary Fiction
Eligible
Curtis Sittenfeld
Literary Fiction
Embers
Sándor Márai
Empire of Wild
Literary Fiction
Empire of Wild
Cherie Dimaline
Literary Fiction
Endling
Maria Reva
Literary Fiction
Erasure
Percival Everett
Escaping Mr. Rochester
Literary Fiction
Escaping Mr. Rochester
L.L. McKinney
Contemporary Fiction
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily Austin
Literary Fiction
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng
Literary Fiction
Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
Non-Fiction
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Literary Fiction
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Literary Fiction
Faces in the Water
Janet Frame
Literary Fiction
Familiaris
David Wroblewski
Literary Fiction
Far North
Marcel Theroux
Literary Fiction
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Fathers and Sons
Literary Fiction
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Literary Fiction
Fear of Flying
Erica Jong
Non-Fiction
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
Literary Fiction
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
Non-Fiction
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Science Fiction
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Literary Fiction
Fobbit
David Abrams
Literary Fiction
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot
Historical Fiction
Four Treasures of the Sky
Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Non-Fiction
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Literary Fiction
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi
Literary Fiction
Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut
Literary Fiction
Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers
Literary Fiction
Gather the Daughters
Jennie Melamed
Literary Fiction
Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
Horror
Gerald's Game
Stephen King
Literary Fiction
Germinal
Émile Zola
Literary Fiction
Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
Literary Fiction
Ghosts
Dolly Alderton
Literary Fiction
Ghostwritten
David Mitchell
Literary Fiction
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Non-Fiction
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Thriller
Girl A
Abigail Dean
Literary Fiction
Glory
NoViolet Bulawayo
Literary Fiction
Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien
Contemporary Fiction
Good Material
Dolly Alderton
Literary Fiction
Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys
Literary Fiction
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Literary Fiction
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
Greek Lessons
Han Kang
Literary Fiction
Hagstone
Sinéad Gleeson
Literary Fiction
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Historical Fiction
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Literary Fiction
Hangman
Maya Binyam
Harlem Rhapsody
Historical Fiction
Harlem Rhapsody
Victoria Christopher Murray
Historical Fiction
Hawaii
James A. Michener
Literary Fiction
Heart Lamp
Banu Mushtaq
Literary Fiction
Heartwood
Amity Gaige
Literary Fiction
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Fantasy
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
Literary Fiction
Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer
Literary Fiction
High Windows
Philip Larkin
Literary Fiction
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Literary Fiction
Homeseeking
Karissa Chen
Literary Fiction
Hope for the Flowers
Trina Paulus
Hopscotch
Literary Fiction
Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar
Historical Fiction
Horse
Geraldine Brooks
Literary Fiction
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
Literary Fiction
House of Stone
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Literary Fiction
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Science Fiction
How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu
Literary Fiction
How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
Science Fiction
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
N. K. Jemisin
Literary Fiction
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang
Literary Fiction
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid
Literary Fiction
Hum
Helen Phillips
Literary Fiction
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
Literary Fiction
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
Mystery
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
Literary Fiction
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Joanne Greenberg
I Will Crash
Literary Fiction
I Will Crash
Rebecca Watson
Literary Fiction
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon McGregor
Literary Fiction
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Literary Fiction
Illuminations
Arthur Rimbaud
Literary Fiction
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
Historical Fiction
In Memoriam
Alice Winn
Literary Fiction
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
Ashley Winstead
Literary Fiction
In a Dark, Dark Wood
Ruth Ware
Literary Fiction
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Tobias Wolff
Literary Fiction
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
Literary Fiction
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Literary Fiction
Into the Forest
Jean Hegland
Literary Fiction
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Literary Fiction
It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey
Literary Fiction
James
Percival Everett
Literary Fiction
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Contemporary Fiction
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Colleen Oakley
Literary Fiction
Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson
Literary Fiction
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
Fantasy
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
Literary Fiction
Julia
Sandra Newman
Literary Fiction
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Fantasy
Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel
Fantasy
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
Memoir
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-ju
Literary Fiction
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary Fiction
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
Lady Audley’s Secret
Literary Fiction
Lady Audley’s Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Literary Fiction
Lazarillo de Tormes
Anonymous
Literary Fiction
Leave the World Behind
Science Fiction
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Kim Fu
Historical Fiction
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
Non-Fiction
Letters from Iceland
W.H. Auden
Science Fiction
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey
Life and Fate
Literary Fiction
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Life: A User’s Manual
Literary Fiction
Life: A User’s Manual
Georges Perec
Literary Fiction
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Literary Fiction
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Literary Fiction
Listen for the Lie
Amy Tintera
Literary Fiction
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Fantasy
Little, Big
John Crowley
Literary Fiction
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
Literary Fiction
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica
Literary Fiction
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Literary Fiction
Long Island
Colm Toibin
Literary Fiction
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Literary Fiction
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
Lorine Niedecker
Literary Fiction
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
Literary Fiction
Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth
Literary Fiction
Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood
Literary Fiction
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
Maame
Literary Fiction
Maame
Jessica George
Historical Fiction
Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan
Romance
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Contemporary Fiction
Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Katie Yee
Literary Fiction
Mama Day
Gloria Naylor
Literary Fiction
Mandy
Julie Andrews Edwards
Literary Fiction
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Rufi Thorpe
Literary Fiction
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Literary Fiction
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Memphis
Historical Fiction
Memphis
Tara M. Stringfellow
Literary Fiction
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Literary Fiction
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Literary Fiction
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Literary Fiction
Milkman
Anna Burns
Memoir
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
Literary Fiction
Mister God, This Is Anna
Fynn
Horror
Model Home
Rivers Solomon
Literary Fiction
Monsignor Quixote
Graham Greene
Horror
Mouthful of Birds
Samanta Schweblin
Fantasy
Mr. Breakfast
Jonathan Carroll
Mrs. Caliban
Literary Fiction
Mrs. Caliban
Rachel Ingalls
Romance
Mrs. Hemingway
Naomi Wood
Literary Fiction
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction
My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell
Literary Fiction
My Government Means to Kill Me
Rasheed Newson
Literary Fiction
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
Literary Fiction
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
Literary Fiction
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
Literary Fiction
Naive. Super
Erlend Loe
Literary Fiction
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
Literary Fiction
Native Son
Literary Fiction
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary Fiction
New and Selected Poems
Thomas Lux
Literary Fiction
News of the World
Paulette Jiles
Literary Fiction
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder
Young Adult
Nilda
Nicholasa Mohr
Literary Fiction
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Kenzaburo Oe
Literary Fiction
No Longer Human
太宰 治
Literary Fiction
No One Is Coming to Save Us
Stephanie Powell Watts
Literary Fiction
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction
Notes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller
Nothing Tastes as Good
Horror
Nothing Tastes as Good
Luke Dumas
Literary Fiction
Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson
Fantasy
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Literary Fiction
Old Filth
Jane Gardam
Literary Fiction
Old God's Time
Sebastian Barry
Literary Fiction
Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout
Literary Fiction
Oliver Twist
Literary Fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Literary Fiction
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle
Literary Fiction
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber
Once Upon a River
Literary Fiction
Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Literary Fiction
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Literary Fiction
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Literary Fiction
Only Ever Yours
Louise O'Neill
Literary Fiction
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Literary Fiction
Opposed Positions
Gwendoline Riley
Literary Fiction
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Literary Fiction
Ordinary Human Failings
Megan Nolan
Horror
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez
Literary Fiction
Our Story Begins
Tobias Wolff
Literary Fiction
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
Historical Fiction
Ours
Phillip B. Williams
Memoir
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
Literary Fiction
Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy
Literary Fiction
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz
Literary Fiction
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Science Fiction
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Literary Fiction
Parade
Rachel Cusk
Literary Fiction
Passing
Nella Larsen
Historical Fiction
Peachtree Road
Anne Rivers Siddons
Literary Fiction
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
Literary Fiction
Penance
Eliza Clark
Literary Fiction
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
Literary Fiction
Pew
Catherine Lacey
Literary Fiction
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Literary Fiction
Pizza Girl
Jean Kyoung Frazier
Pollyanna
Literary Fiction
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
Literary Fiction
Possession
A.S. Byatt
Literary Fiction
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Literary Fiction
Problems
Jade Sharma
Literary Fiction
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver
Historical Fiction
Q
Luther Blissett
Literary Fiction
Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
Literary Fiction
Quichotte
Salman Rushdie
Literary Fiction
Rat Bohemia
Sarah Schulman
Literary Fiction
Real Americans
Rachel Khong
Literary Fiction
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Literary Fiction
Red Cavalry
Isaac Babel
Literary Fiction
Red Clocks
Leni Zumas
Literary Fiction
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
Literary Fiction
Rental House
Weike Wang
Literary Fiction
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
Crime
Ripley's Game
Patricia Highsmith
Historical Fiction
River Sing Me Home
Eleanor Shearer
Literary Fiction
Sailing Alone Around the Room
Billy Collins
Literary Fiction
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
Literary Fiction
Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park
Literary Fiction
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh
Literary Fiction
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
Literary Fiction
Serena
Ron Rash
Science Fiction
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Literary Fiction
Severance
Ling Ma
Literary Fiction
She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb
Literary Fiction
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Non-Fiction
Silences
Tillie Olsen
Memoir
Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux
Literary Fiction
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Contemporary Fiction
Sipsworth
Simon Van Booy
Historical Fiction
Sisters Under the Rising Sun
Heather Morris
Literary Fiction
Sky Daddy
Kate Folk
Science Fiction
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Literary Fiction
Solenoid
Mircea Cărtărescu
Someplace Like Home
Literary Fiction
Someplace Like Home
Bobi Conn
Literary Fiction
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Literary Fiction
Spies of the Balkans
Alan Furst
Literary Fiction
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson
Literary Fiction
State of Wonder
Ann Patchett
Science Fiction
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Literary Fiction
Stay with Me
Ayòbámi Adébáyò
Literary Fiction
Still Alice
Lisa Genova
Literary Fiction
Still I Rise
Maya Angelou
Literary Fiction
Still Life with Woodpecker
Tom Robbins
Historical Fiction
Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Literary Fiction
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami
Study for Obedience
Literary Fiction
Study for Obedience
Sarah Bernstein
Memoir
Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
Colombe Schneck
Literary Fiction
Swing Time
Zadie Smith
Literary Fiction
Sympathy
Olivia Sudjic
Literary Fiction
Table for Two
Amor Towles
Historical Fiction
Taiko
Eiji Yoshikawa
Historical Fiction
Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Literary Fiction
Tampa
Alissa Nutting
Literary Fiction
Tar Baby
Literary Fiction
Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout
Literary Fiction
Tell Me a Riddle
Tillie Olsen
Literary Fiction
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
Literary Fiction
Temporary
Hilary Leichter
Horror
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
Literary Fiction
Tenth of December
George Saunders
Literary Fiction
That Kind of Mother
Rumaan Alam
Literary Fiction
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Literary Fiction
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Literary Fiction
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Historical Fiction
The American Daughters
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The Ancients
Literary Fiction
The Ancients
John Larison
Literary Fiction
The Anthropologists
Ayşegül Savaş
Literary Fiction
The Antidote
Karen Russell
Literary Fiction
The Archer
Paulo Coelho
Literary Fiction
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein
Contemporary Fiction
The Authenticity Project
Clare Pooley
Literary Fiction
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Literary Fiction
The Bear
Andrew Krivak
Literary Fiction
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
Literary Fiction
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Literary Fiction
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
Literary Fiction
The Big Sky
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Literary Fiction
The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín
The Blood of Flowers
Literary Fiction
The Blood of Flowers
Anita Amirrezvani
Literary Fiction
The Blood of the Lamb
Peter De Vries
Literary Fiction
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
The Blossoming Summer
Literary Fiction
The Blossoming Summer
Anna Rose Johnson
The Blueprint
Literary Fiction
The Blueprint
Rae Giana Rashad
Literary Fiction
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Literary Fiction
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
The Book of Disquiet
Literary Fiction
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Comedy
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Literary Fiction
The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
Science Fiction
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Meg Elison
Historical Fiction
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
Jeremy Dronfield
Historical Fiction
The Briar Club
Kate Quinn
Literary Fiction
The Bridegroom
Ha Jin
Literary Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Literary Fiction
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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