Literary Fiction4.2Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001
Moderate · 577 pp.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary novels where prose carries feeling.
Literary Fiction4.2
Literary Fiction4.2The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
Moderate · 510 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1911
Accessible · 605 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Moderate · 355 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke · 2004
Moderate · 576 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001
Moderate · 388 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
Moderate · 645 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Challenging · 612 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 1993
Accessible · 356 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman · 2012
Moderate · 393 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Accessible · 497 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013
Moderate · 435 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Moderate · 569 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
Accessible · 463 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden · 1997
Challenging · 436 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2014
Challenging · 662 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Moderate · 325 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce · 2012
Challenging · 392 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
Challenging · 502 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Moderate · 531 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee · 2007
Challenging · 653 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
Accessible · 592 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
Challenging · 676 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Accessible · 418 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Challenging · 411 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Moderate · 573 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Challenging · 564 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018
Moderate · 622 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985
Challenging · 628 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2003
Challenging · 436 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Moderate · 516 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Home
Marilynne Robinson · 2008
Accessible · 547 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
Challenging · 616 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
Accessible · 535 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Challenging · 619 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Challenging · 547 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951
Challenging · 436 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
Challenging · 466 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
Accessible · 548 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes · 1984
Accessible · 444 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934
Challenging · 622 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Accessible · 435 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0On Beauty
Zadie Smith · 2005
Challenging · 486 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969
Moderate · 447 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Moderate · 636 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · 2016
Moderate · 647 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Accessible · 353 pp.