Quiet Emotional Reads

Gentle, devastating, unforgettable — fiction for reflective evenings.

Literary Fiction3.9

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Moderate · 579 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman · 2012

Challenging · 356 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 2007

Challenging · 672 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr · 2014

Challenging · 611 pp.

Literary Fiction3.8

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy · 1992

Accessible · 600 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini · 2013

Challenging · 527 pp.

Literary Fiction4.1

Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2001

Accessible · 641 pp.

Emotional Fiction4.0

Beach Read

Emily Henry · 2020

Challenging · 571 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Challenging · 544 pp.

Literary Fiction3.8

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah · 2016

Accessible · 563 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013

Accessible · 644 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez · 1981

Accessible · 395 pp.