Literary fiction books
Browse literary fiction book guides, with reading profiles, descriptions and edition details.
662 book guides · Showing 577–624

The Quick and the Dead
Joy Williams
Effort 58/100

Tinkers
Paul Harding
Effort 59/100

Ironweed
William Kennedy
Effort 62/100

Now in November
Josephine Johnson
Effort 40/100

The Names
Don DeLillo
Effort 69/100

The Promise
Damon Galgut
Effort 62/100

Omensetter's Luck
William H. Gass
Effort 82/100

Rabbit at Rest
John Updike
Effort 64/100

The Masters of Atlantis
Charles Portis
Effort 45/100

Moo
Jane Smiley
Effort 48/100

The Information
Martin Amis
Effort 60/100

A Confederate General from Big Sur
Richard Brautigan
Effort 32/100

Claudius the God
Robert Graves
Effort 53/100

The Last Good Kiss
James Crumley
Effort 36/100

The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
Effort 54/100

The Siege of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell
Effort 52/100

Dear Committee Members
Julie Schumacher
Effort 35/100

The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Effort 66/100

Company
Max Barry
Effort 28/100

Pop. 1280
Jim Thompson
Effort 35/100

Lamb in His Bosom
Caroline Miller
Effort 44/100

The Night of the Hunter
Davis Grubb
Effort 30/100

Six Four
Hideo Yokoyama
Effort 44/100

The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson
Effort 58/100

Elbow Room
James Alan McPherson
Effort 50/100

Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike
Effort 63/100

In This Our Life
Ellen Glasgow
Effort 46/100

The Last Gentleman
Walker Percy
Effort 60/100

The Old Devils
Kingsley Amis
Effort 48/100

Something to Answer For
P. H. Newby
Effort 58/100

The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills
Effort 31/100

Dr. No
Percival Everett
Effort 46/100

The Able McLaughlins
Margaret Wilson
Effort 42/100

The Store
T. S. Stribling
Effort 43/100

Leaving Cheyenne
Larry McMurtry
Effort 28/100

The Elected Member
Bernice Rubens
Effort 41/100

The Town
Conrad Richter
Effort 43/100

Dragon's Teeth
Upton Sinclair
Effort 65/100

Galveston
Nic Pizzolatto
Effort 26/100

Saville
David Storey
Effort 42/100

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford
Effort 47/100

Condominium
John D. MacDonald
Effort 41/100

Pick-Up
Charles Willeford
Effort 36/100

A Fable
William Faulkner
Effort 72/100

Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
Effort 52/100

Guard of Honor
James Gould Cozzens
Effort 70/100

Holiday
Stanley Middleton
Effort 42/100

Pitch Dark
Renata Adler
Effort 40/100