Literary Fiction3.5A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Accessible · 630 pp.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary novels where voice, mood, and craft share the frame.
Literary Fiction3.5
Literary Fiction3.6A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Moderate · 497 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Challenging · 330 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Challenging · 365 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Accessible · 449 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez · 1981
Challenging · 507 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Challenging · 442 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2014
Moderate · 633 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger · 1961
Challenging · 454 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 2004
Moderate · 380 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
Moderate · 584 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson · 1980
Challenging · 471 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969
Challenging · 608 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Accessible · 534 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam · 2020
Moderate · 516 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
Moderate · 479 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985
Moderate · 651 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925
Moderate · 328 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Moderate · 527 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Moderate · 427 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9On Beauty
Zadie Smith · 2005
Moderate · 510 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
Moderate · 626 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
Moderate · 641 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
Accessible · 349 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977
Moderate · 608 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
Moderate · 309 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood · 2000
Moderate · 325 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell · 2014
Moderate · 533 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · 1979
Moderate · 300 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Challenging · 531 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn · 2022
Challenging · 571 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 2012
Challenging · 549 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls · 2005
Challenging · 367 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
Accessible · 666 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer · 2008
Challenging · 592 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003
Challenging · 557 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman · 2012
Moderate · 425 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Challenging · 360 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy · 2017
Challenging · 638 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Challenging · 560 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
Accessible · 351 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018
Challenging · 369 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Accessible · 440 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 1993
Moderate · 390 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Challenging · 455 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Moderate · 628 pp.