Literary Fiction3.8Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger · 1961
Accessible · 657 pp.
Literary Fiction
Novels where voice, conscience, and craft share the light.
Literary Fiction3.8
Literary Fiction4.0The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell · 2014
Challenging · 416 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes · 1984
Challenging · 420 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 2000
Challenging · 668 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy · 1997
Moderate · 595 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5Paper Towns
John Green · 2008
Accessible · 451 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 2004
Challenging · 578 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2014
Moderate · 453 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Turtles All the Way Down
John Green · 2017
Challenging · 596 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls · 2005
Challenging · 579 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Challenging · 533 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018
Challenging · 320 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011
Accessible · 329 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote · 1948
Moderate · 469 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
Accessible · 630 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy · 2017
Moderate · 678 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 1970
Moderate · 603 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden · 1997
Challenging · 629 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
Accessible · 565 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke · 2004
Challenging · 653 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 2012
Challenging · 410 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Accessible · 501 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5On Beauty
Zadie Smith · 2005
Accessible · 374 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958
Challenging · 619 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 1937
Challenging · 555 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Moderate · 314 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Challenging · 611 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer · 2008
Accessible · 490 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 1988
Accessible · 431 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 1993
Accessible · 558 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Sula
Toni Morrison · 1973
Challenging · 420 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1966
Moderate · 366 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Challenging · 323 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Challenging · 606 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
Moderate · 634 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Moderate · 378 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Galatea
Madeline Miller · 2023
Moderate · 574 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Moderate · 360 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013
Accessible · 644 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Challenging · 527 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 1938
Moderate · 371 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Home
Marilynne Robinson · 2008
Accessible · 438 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
Challenging · 401 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969
Challenging · 380 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Moderate · 579 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn · 2022
Moderate · 455 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018
Challenging · 559 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 1948
Accessible · 542 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003
Accessible · 327 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Challenging · 324 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
Accessible · 396 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
Challenging · 674 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 1953
Challenging · 345 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
Accessible · 388 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Moderate · 595 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
Moderate · 301 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925
Challenging · 483 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez · 1981
Accessible · 395 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood · 2000
Challenging · 447 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
Accessible · 552 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
Accessible · 485 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson · 1980
Accessible · 672 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001
Accessible · 527 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver · 1998
Moderate · 465 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee · 2007
Challenging · 342 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Testaments
Margaret Atwood · 2019
Challenging · 665 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Challenging · 672 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam · 2020
Accessible · 331 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939
Challenging · 488 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934
Challenging · 419 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985
Challenging · 557 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
Moderate · 669 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Educated
Tara Westover · 2018
Accessible · 351 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977
Moderate · 541 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951
Moderate · 623 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
Challenging · 576 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5The Help
Kathryn Stockett · 2009
Accessible · 300 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
Moderate · 454 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Challenging · 329 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Challenging · 544 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1989
Accessible · 476 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001
Accessible · 641 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Moderate · 388 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi · 2016
Accessible · 318 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Challenging · 642 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy · 1992
Accessible · 600 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005
Moderate · 669 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman · 2012
Moderate · 335 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · 1979
Moderate · 604 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
Accessible · 388 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Accessible · 613 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · 2016
Accessible · 563 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman · 2012
Challenging · 356 pp.