Literary Fiction4.2A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Challenging · 579 pp.
Literary Fiction
Novels that reward close attention.
Literary Fiction4.2
Literary Fiction3.8A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Moderate · 617 pp.
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 Fiction3.9All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Accessible · 310 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Moderate · 533 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Apex Hides the Hurt
Colson Whitehead · 2006
Challenging · 495 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Moderate · 686 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015
Challenging · 561 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985
Accessible · 640 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Accessible · 694 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Commonwealth
Ann Patchett · 2016
Challenging · 615 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Moderate · 380 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Educated
Tara Westover · 2018
Challenging · 660 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 Fiction4.0Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
Challenging · 297 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969
Moderate · 281 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2John Henry Days
Colson Whitehead · 2001
Challenging · 306 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Challenging · 573 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001
Moderate · 683 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Accessible · 445 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0On Beauty
Zadie Smith · 2005
Challenging · 570 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
Moderate · 491 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
Accessible · 484 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead · 2009
Moderate · 638 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward · 2017
Accessible · 502 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2State of Wonder
Ann Patchett · 2011
Accessible · 670 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
Moderate · 311 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 1988
Moderate · 419 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Beautiful Struggle
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2008
Challenging · 552 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Challenging · 300 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951
Moderate · 338 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
Moderate · 353 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2003
Moderate · 446 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 2012
Moderate · 284 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah · 2021
Moderate · 512 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls · 2005
Accessible · 487 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
Accessible · 346 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Challenging · 504 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer · 2008
Moderate · 491 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Help
Kathryn Stockett · 2009
Moderate · 683 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead · 1999
Moderate · 578 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler · 2004
Accessible · 322 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1989
Challenging · 567 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003
Challenging · 642 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman · 2012
Moderate · 347 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Challenging · 636 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Moderate · 647 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
Accessible · 661 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018
Accessible · 601 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Challenging · 606 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid · 2007
Challenging · 564 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
Moderate · 320 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Accessible · 391 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Challenging · 420 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · 2016
Accessible · 412 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce · 2012
Challenging · 285 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2019
Challenging · 471 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.