Literary Fiction4.3A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Challenging · 569 pp.
Literary Fiction
Novels where prose is part of the pleasure.
Literary Fiction4.3
Literary Fiction3.9A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Moderate · 373 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman · 2012
Accessible · 463 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Challenging · 458 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Challenging · 456 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Moderate · 463 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Moderate · 322 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015
Challenging · 604 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · 2016
Challenging · 607 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Accessible · 364 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
Challenging · 463 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Challenging · 437 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1911
Accessible · 446 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2014
Moderate · 514 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
Challenging · 673 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi · 2018
Challenging · 644 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Home
Toni Morrison · 2012
Accessible · 437 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969
Moderate · 651 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Jazz
Toni Morrison · 1992
Accessible · 341 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001
Moderate · 493 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng · 2017
Challenging · 481 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Love
Toni Morrison · 2003
Challenging · 647 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden · 1997
Accessible · 339 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Accessible · 495 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
Moderate · 381 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
Accessible · 345 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
Challenging · 625 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Moderate · 317 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Paradise
Toni Morrison · 1997
Accessible · 610 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
Accessible · 550 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977
Accessible · 652 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
Moderate · 679 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934
Challenging · 528 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Challenging · 480 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951
Moderate · 348 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
Moderate · 463 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 2012
Moderate · 554 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jennifer 8. Lee · 2008
Challenging · 574 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy · 1997
Challenging · 642 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939
Challenging · 509 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Challenging · 554 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Help
Kathryn Stockett · 2009
Moderate · 660 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa · 2003
Moderate · 335 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1989
Challenging · 657 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003
Challenging · 612 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman · 2012
Moderate · 617 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Challenging · 526 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
Accessible · 311 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Moderate · 385 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver · 1998
Challenging · 504 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Moderate · 655 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Challenging · 670 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015
Moderate · 593 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce · 2012
Challenging · 615 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Accessible · 311 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
Moderate · 687 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
Accessible · 617 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Moderate · 525 pp.