Literary fiction books
Browse literary fiction book guides, with reading profiles, descriptions and edition details.
662 book guides · Showing 337–384
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Effort 36/100
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
Effort 52/100
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Effort 64/100
Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski
Effort 30/100
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Effort 48/100
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Effort 37/100
Amerika
Franz Kafka
Effort 51/100
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Effort 62/100
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Effort 47/100
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
Effort 61/100
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
Effort 51/100
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Effort 65/100
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
Effort 49/100
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Effort 71/100
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Effort 66/100
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass / Ghosts / The Locked Room
Paul Auster
Effort 60/100
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Effort 54/100
Elevation
Stephen King
Effort 24/100
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
Effort 60/100
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
Effort 58/100
Grendel
John Gardner
Effort 68/100
Desperate Characters
Paula Fox
Effort 36/100
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene
Effort 36/100
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
Effort 28/100
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Effort 70/100
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
Effort 34/100
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Effort 62/100
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Effort 80/100
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Effort 70/100
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Effort 68/100
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Effort 60/100
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Effort 62/100
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Effort 51/100
Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger
Effort 43/100
Possession
A. S. Byatt
Effort 84/100
The Skin I'm In
Sharon G. Flake
Effort 28/100
Ordinary People
Judith Guest
Effort 42/100
A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr
Effort 35/100
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Effort 57/100
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Effort 34/100
Second Class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta
Effort 37/100
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Effort 61/100
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Effort 77/100
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Effort 39/100
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Effort 66/100
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
Effort 36/100
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Effort 63/100
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Effort 56/100
