Literary fiction books
Browse literary fiction book guides, with reading profiles, descriptions and edition details.
662 book guides · Showing 385–432

The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Effort 67/100

Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Effort 59/100

Light in August
William Faulkner
Effort 88/100

The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
Effort 56/100

The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Effort 56/100

Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska
Effort 36/100

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
Effort 32/100

James
Percival Everett
Effort 47/100

Jo's Boys
Louisa May Alcott
Effort 49/100

Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
Effort 24/100

The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Effort 52/100

The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Effort 42/100

Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya
Effort 41/100

The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
Effort 50/100

American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Effort 66/100

Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
Effort 48/100

The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
Effort 65/100

The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson
Effort 59/100

Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Effort 41/100

O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
Effort 37/100

The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
Effort 64/100

Herzog
Saul Bellow
Effort 83/100

The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Effort 67/100

The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis
Effort 42/100

Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz
Effort 28/100

The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Effort 71/100

Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Effort 84/100

The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Effort 100/100

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Effort 45/100

Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
Effort 54/100

Melissa
Alex Gino
Effort 18/100

True Grit
Charles Portis
Effort 26/100

Sounder
William H. Armstrong
Effort 25/100

The View from Saturday
E. L. Konigsburg
Effort 33/100

The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
Effort 58/100

The Breathing Method
Stephen King
Effort 39/100

Butcher's Crossing
John Williams
Effort 38/100

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler
Effort 48/100

The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk
Effort 50/100

Money
Martin Amis
Effort 51/100

The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Effort 51/100

Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
Effort 37/100

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
Effort 54/100

Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Effort 49/100

The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse
Effort 26/100

Praisesong for the Widow
Paule Marshall
Effort 62/100

Life and Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee
Effort 51/100

Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson
Effort 37/100