Quiet Emotional Reads

Intimate, devastating, unforgettable — fiction for reflective evenings.

Literary Fiction3.5

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Accessible · 630 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Moderate · 497 pp.

Literary Fiction4.3

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr · 2014

Challenging · 330 pp.

Literary Fiction4.3

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini · 2013

Challenging · 365 pp.

Literary Fiction3.8

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Accessible · 449 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez · 1981

Challenging · 507 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 1952

Challenging · 442 pp.

Literary Fiction3.9

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng · 2014

Moderate · 633 pp.

Emotional Fiction3.6

Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon · 2015

Moderate · 553 pp.

Literary Fiction4.3

Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger · 1961

Challenging · 454 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson · 2004

Moderate · 380 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006

Moderate · 584 pp.