Literary Fiction4.2A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Challenging · 579 pp.
Literary Fiction
Novels that reward close attention.
Literary Fiction4.2
Literary Fiction4.3A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman · 2012
Accessible · 433 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Challenging · 288 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Moderate · 644 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Moderate · 533 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Moderate · 686 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · 2016
Moderate · 638 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013
Challenging · 519 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Cannery Row
John Steinbeck · 1945
Challenging · 507 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Accessible · 694 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Accessible · 625 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Educated
Tara Westover · 2018
Accessible · 622 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1911
Accessible · 436 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
Challenging · 303 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969
Moderate · 281 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Accessible · 445 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
Moderate · 491 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
Moderate · 284 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
Challenging · 516 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Paper Towns
John Green · 2008
Accessible · 652 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
Moderate · 311 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934
Challenging · 483 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 1988
Moderate · 419 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
Challenging · 402 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Accessible · 280 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951
Accessible · 637 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
Moderate · 353 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 2012
Accessible · 607 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939
Moderate · 521 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Challenging · 504 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Help
Kathryn Stockett · 2009
Moderate · 491 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1989
Challenging · 567 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman · 2012
Moderate · 347 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Accessible · 646 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
Accessible · 661 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018
Challenging · 309 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Challenging · 606 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver · 1998
Challenging · 444 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Accessible · 391 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd · 2001
Accessible · 505 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Challenging · 411 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce · 2012
Challenging · 285 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005
Accessible · 436 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
Moderate · 437 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
Accessible · 367 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Turtles All the Way Down
John Green · 2017
Challenging · 648 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Challenging · 651 pp.