Award-Worthy Fiction

Honored novels our editors return to for craft and feeling.

Modern Classics3.7

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Challenging · 304 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White · 1952

Challenging · 408 pp.

Mystery4.0

Farewell, My Lovely

Raymond Chandler · 1940

Challenging · 612 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera · 1979

Moderate · 604 pp.

Mystery3.6

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler · 1939

Moderate · 576 pp.

Literary Fantasy3.5

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling · 1997

Accessible · 660 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden · 1997

Challenging · 629 pp.

Psychological Fiction4.2

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver · 2003

Moderate · 543 pp.

Thriller4.0

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins · 2015

Challenging · 519 pp.

Literary Fiction4.3

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah · 2015

Challenging · 606 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 2006

Challenging · 533 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

The Stranger

Albert Camus · 1942

Moderate · 522 pp.