Literary Fiction3.8The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce · 2012
Accessible · 603 pp.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary novels where prose, feeling, and craft share the light.
Literary Fiction3.8
Literary Fiction4.2Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1911
Moderate · 608 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi · 2016
Challenging · 479 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977
Accessible · 581 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Challenging · 638 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · 1979
Moderate · 322 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver · 1998
Challenging · 332 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 1993
Moderate · 673 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 2000
Moderate · 315 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy · 1992
Challenging · 376 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Moderate · 659 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Challenging · 591 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
Moderate · 406 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
Accessible · 498 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958
Moderate · 313 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Moderate · 573 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman · 2012
Moderate · 458 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
Challenging · 531 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8On Beauty
Zadie Smith · 2005
Accessible · 666 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
Challenging · 642 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934
Challenging · 338 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 2004
Challenging · 627 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger · 1961
Challenging · 394 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman · 2012
Moderate · 539 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson · 1980
Accessible · 571 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Challenging · 620 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Moderate · 616 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Moderate · 427 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Challenging · 435 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Challenging · 434 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell · 2014
Accessible · 381 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Moderate · 566 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 1948
Accessible · 621 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
Accessible · 305 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Challenging · 620 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925
Accessible · 470 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 1988
Moderate · 490 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy · 2017
Challenging · 413 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke · 2004
Challenging · 674 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · 2016
Moderate · 554 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005
Moderate · 560 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Educated
Tara Westover · 2018
Challenging · 390 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Help
Kathryn Stockett · 2009
Accessible · 410 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
Accessible · 340 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls · 2005
Accessible · 566 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Challenging · 517 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Moderate · 488 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Accessible · 436 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer · 2008
Accessible · 572 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2014
Challenging · 452 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Paper Towns
John Green · 2008
Challenging · 329 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Testaments
Margaret Atwood · 2019
Moderate · 325 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
Challenging · 498 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam · 2020
Moderate · 544 pp.