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Literary fiction sits at the intersection of fine writing and serious storytelling — novels that reward attention and stay with you long after the last page. These are the books that alter your sense of what's possible in prose.

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Beloved Toni Morrison · 1987 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
The Stranger Albert Camus · 1942 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 Essential Read See details →
Atonement Ian McEwan · 2001 Essential Read See details →
The Secret History Donna Tartt · 1992 Essential Read See details →
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen · 2001 Essential Read See details →
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006 Essential Read See details →
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy · 1997 Essential Read See details →
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini · 2003 Essential Read See details →
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Stoner John Williams · 1965 Essential Read See details →
Pachinko Min Jin Lee · 2017 Essential Read See details →
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende · 1982 Essential Read See details →
American Gods Neil Gaiman · 2001 Essential Read See details →
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2015 Essential Read See details →
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks · 1993 Essential Read See details →
Me Before You Jojo Moyes · 2012 Essential Read See details →
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver · 1981 Essential Read See details →
Tenth of December George Saunders · 2013 Essential Read See details →
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl · 1964 Essential Read See details →
Matilda Roald Dahl · 1988 Essential Read See details →
The Color Purple Alice Walker · 1982 Essential Read See details →
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison · 1952 Essential Read See details →
On the Road Jack Kerouac · 1957 Essential Read See details →
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison · 1970 Essential Read See details →
White Noise Don DeLillo · 1985 Essential Read See details →
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Overstory Richard Powers · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys · 1966 Essential Read See details →
The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter · 1979 Essential Read See details →
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín · 2009 Essential Read See details →
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing · 1962 Essential Read See details →
Women in Love D.H. Lawrence · 1920 Essential Read See details →
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence · 1913 Essential Read See details →
Brighton Rock Graham Greene · 1938 Essential Read See details →
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje · 1992 Essential Read See details →
A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul · 1961 Essential Read See details →
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene · 1940 Essential Read See details →
The Plague Albert Camus · 1947 Essential Read See details →
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy · 2005 Essential Read See details →
American Pastoral Philip Roth · 1997 Essential Read See details →
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro · 2015 Essential Read See details →
How to Be Both Ali Smith · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015 Essential Read See details →
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Mirror & the Light Hilary Mantel · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng · 2014 Essential Read See details →
There There Tommy Orange · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store James McBride · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus · 2022 Essential Read See details →
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer · 2002 Essential Read See details →
Outline Rachel Cusk · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Beautiful World Where Are You Sally Rooney · 2021 Essential Read See details →
The Bee Sting Paul Murray · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Daisy Jones and The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Exit West Mohsin Hamid · 2017 Essential Read See details →
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid · 2007 Essential Read See details →
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko · 1977 Essential Read See details →
Jesus' Son Denis Johnson · 1992 Essential Read See details →
The Four Winds Kristin Hannah · 2021 Essential Read See details →
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman · 2012 Essential Read See details →
The Midnight Library Matt Haig · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry · 2008 Essential Read See details →
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks · 1984 Essential Read See details →
Moth Smoke Mohsin Hamid · 2000 Essential Read See details →
High Fidelity Nick Hornby · 1995 Essential Read See details →
Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Great Alone Kristin Hannah · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Autumn Ali Smith · 2016 Essential Read See details →
On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan · 2007 Essential Read See details →
Swing Time Zadie Smith · 2016 Essential Read See details →
The Family Upstairs Lisa Jewell · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Verity Colleen Hoover · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin · 2022 Essential Read See details →
In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson · 1980 Essential Read See details →
My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Dept of Speculation Jenny Offill · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Life After Life Kate Atkinson · 2013 Essential Read See details →
Never Mind Edward St Aubyn · 1992 Essential Read See details →
The Famished Road Ben Okri · 1991 Essential Read See details →
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o · 1967 Essential Read See details →
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante · 2011 Essential Read See details →
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon · 2001 Essential Read See details →
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell · 2004 Essential Read See details →
Flesh David Szalay · 2025 Essential Read See details →
The Story of a New Name Elena Ferrante · 2012 Essential Read See details →
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante · 2013 Essential Read See details →
My Struggle Book 1 Karl Ove Knausgard · 2009 Essential Read See details →
Orbital Samantha Harvey · 2023 Essential Read See details →
James Percival Everett · 2024 Essential Read See details →
Circe Madeline Miller · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Transit Rachel Cusk · 2016 Essential Read See details →
The Lost Child Elena Ferrante · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien · 1990 Essential Read See details →
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan · 1989 Essential Read See details →
Trust Hernan Diaz · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Sing Unburied Sing Jesmyn Ward · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann · 2009 Essential Read See details →
Days Without End Sebastian Barry · 2016 Essential Read See details →
In the Distance Hernan Diaz · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin · 1956 Essential Read See details →
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi · 2016 Essential Read See details →
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz · 2007 Essential Read See details →
We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo · 2013 Essential Read See details →
Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor · 1952 Essential Read See details →
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho · 1988 Essential Read See details →
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark · 1961 Essential Read See details →
The Quiet American Graham Greene · 1955 Essential Read See details →
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Nights at the Circus Angela Carter · 1984 Essential Read See details →
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2003 Essential Read See details →
We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver · 2003 Essential Read See details →
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh · 1993 Essential Read See details →
Possession A.S. Byatt · 1990 Essential Read See details →
Brick Lane Monica Ali · 2003 Essential Read See details →
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst · 2004 Essential Read See details →
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood · 1996 Essential Read See details →
Enduring Love Ian McEwan · 1997 Essential Read See details →
The Sea John Banville · 2005 Essential Read See details →
Room Emma Donoghue · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Fingersmith Sarah Waters · 2002 Essential Read See details →
The Gathering Anne Enright · 2007 Essential Read See details →
Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx · 1997 Essential Read See details →
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon · 2000 Essential Read See details →
My Name Is Red Orhan Pamuk · 1998 Essential Read See details →
The End of the Affair Graham Greene · 1951 Essential Read See details →
The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman · 1997 Essential Read See details →
The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman · 2000 Essential Read See details →
Sula Toni Morrison · 1973 Essential Read See details →
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders · 2017 Essential Read See details →
The Sea the Sea Iris Murdoch · 1978 Essential Read See details →
Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Kudos Rachel Cusk · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan · 2005 Essential Read See details →
Wonder R.J. Palacio · 2012 Essential Read See details →
Small Island Andrea Levy · 2004 Essential Read See details →
The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi · 1990 Essential Read See details →
Waterland Graham Swift · 1983 Essential Read See details →
Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah · 1994 Essential Read See details →
The Stone Diaries Carol Shields · 1993 Essential Read See details →
About a Boy Nick Hornby · 1998 Essential Read See details →
The Help Kathryn Stockett · 2009 Essential Read See details →
Flights Olga Tokarczuk · 2007 Essential Read See details →
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James · 2014 Essential Read See details →
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler · 1988 Essential Read See details →
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Vegetarian Han Kang · 2007 Essential Read See details →
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros · 2023 Essential Read See details →
A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas · 2015 Essential Read See details →
Small Things Like These Claire Keegan · 2021 Essential Read See details →
The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Human Acts Han Kang · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 Cho Nam-Joo · 2016 Essential Read See details →
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce · 2012 Essential Read See details →
The Reader Bernhard Schlink · 1995 Essential Read See details →
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami · 1994 Essential Read See details →
Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky · 2004 Essential Read See details →
Young Mungo Douglas Stuart · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Bridget Jones Diary Helen Fielding · 1996 Essential Read See details →
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020 Essential Read See details →
1Q84 Haruki Murakami · 2009 Essential Read See details →
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros · 1984 Essential Read See details →
In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez · 1994 Essential Read See details →
Waiting Ha Jin · 1999 Essential Read See details →
Breath Eyes Memory Edwidge Danticat · 1994 Essential Read See details →
Austerlitz W.G. Sebald · 2001 Essential Read See details →
November 9 Colleen Hoover · 2015 Essential Read See details →
The Shipping News Annie Proulx · 1993 Essential Read See details →
The Human Stain Philip Roth · 2000 Essential Read See details →
The World According to Garp John Irving · 1978 Essential Read See details →
On Beauty Zadie Smith · 2005 Essential Read See details →
MaddAddam Margaret Atwood · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The Sellout Paul Beatty · 2015 Essential Read See details →
Fates and Furies Lauren Groff · 2015 Essential Read See details →
The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak · 2006 Essential Read See details →
Perfume Patrick Suskind · 1985 Essential Read See details →
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers · 1940 Essential Read See details →
Foster Claire Keegan · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk · 2009 Essential Read See details →
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward · 2011 Essential Read See details →
HHhH Laurent Binet · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Prophet Song Paul Lynch · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Bel Canto Ann Patchett · 2001 Essential Read See details →
East of Eden John Steinbeck · 1952 Essential Read See details →
The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin · 2012 Essential Read See details →
Sophie's Choice William Styron · 1979 Essential Read See details →
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie · 2007 Essential Read See details →
The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor · 1982 Essential Read See details →
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth · 1969 Essential Read See details →
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving · 1989 Essential Read See details →
Brooklyn Colm Toibin · 2009 Essential Read See details →
And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver · 1998 Essential Read See details →
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith · 1943 Essential Read See details →
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie · 1988 Essential Read See details →
Redeployment Phil Klay · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Commonwealth Ann Patchett · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Annie John Jamaica Kincaid · 1985 Essential Read See details →
An Officer and a Spy Robert Harris · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1981 Essential Read See details →
The Tin Drum Gunter Grass · 1959 Essential Read See details →
Blindness Jose Saramago · 1995 Essential Read See details →
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster · 1987 Essential Read See details →
Milkman Anna Burns · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Promise Damon Galgut · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Less Andrew Sean Greer · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Babel R. F. Kuang · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Home Fire Kamila Shamsie · 2017 Essential Read See details →
An American Marriage Tayari Jones · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Angel Down Daniel Kraus · 2025 Essential Read See details →
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Trust Exercise Susan Choi · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck · 2008 Essential Read See details →
Merci Suarez Changes Gears Meg Medina · 2018 Essential Read See details →
New Kid Jerry Craft · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Interior Chinatown Charles Yu · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden · 2024 Essential Read See details →
Brotherless Night V. V. Ganeshananthan · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Book of Goose Yiyun Li · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Blackouts Justin Torres · 2023 Essential Read See details →
When You Trap a Tiger Tae Keller · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Spinning Silver Naomi Novik · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Witch King Martha Wells · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Nettle and Bone T. Kingfisher · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Small Rain Garth Greenwell · 2024 Essential Read See details →
The Long Take Robin Robertson · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free Andrew Miller · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Look Both Ways Jason Reynolds · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Eyes and the Impossible Dave Eggers · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The First State of Being Erin Entrada Kelly · 2024 Essential Read See details →
Freewater Amina Luqman-Dawson · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Reformatory Tananarive Due · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Devil Takes You Home Gabino Iglesias · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Someone You Can Build a Nest In John Wiswell · 2024 Essential Read See details →
These Days Lucy Caldwell · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Hungry Ghosts Kevin Jared Hosein · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Deepa Anappara · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Mermaid of Black Conch Monique Roffey · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Lark Anthony McGowan · 2019 Essential Read See details →
October October Katya Balen · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Blue Book of Nebo Manon Steffan Ros · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Boy Lost in the Maze Joseph Coelho · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Jade Legacy Fonda Lee · 2021 Essential Read See details →

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The Goldfinch Donna Tartt · 2014 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen · 2001 Essential Read See details →
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006 Essential Read See details →
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead · 2016 Essential Read See details →
American Gods Neil Gaiman · 2001 Essential Read See details →
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead · 2019 Essential Read See details →
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How to Be Both Ali Smith · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015 Essential Read See details →
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Mirror & the Light Hilary Mantel · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry · 2008 Essential Read See details →
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Flesh David Szalay · 2025 Essential Read See details →
Orbital Samantha Harvey · 2023 Essential Read See details →
James Percival Everett · 2024 Essential Read See details →
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Trust Hernan Diaz · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann · 2009 Essential Read See details →
Days Without End Sebastian Barry · 2016 Essential Read See details →
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes · 2011 Essential Read See details →
We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver · 2003 Essential Read See details →
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst · 2004 Essential Read See details →
The Sea John Banville · 2005 Essential Read See details →
The Gathering Anne Enright · 2007 Essential Read See details →
The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman · 2000 Essential Read See details →
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Small Island Andrea Levy · 2004 Essential Read See details →
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James · 2014 Essential Read See details →
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan · 2010 Essential Read See details →
On Beauty Zadie Smith · 2005 Essential Read See details →
The Sellout Paul Beatty · 2015 Essential Read See details →
The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Prophet Song Paul Lynch · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Bel Canto Ann Patchett · 2001 Essential Read See details →
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Redeployment Phil Klay · 2014 Essential Read See details →
An Officer and a Spy Robert Harris · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw · 2020 Essential Read See details →
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The Promise Damon Galgut · 2021 Essential Read See details →
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Babel R. F. Kuang · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Home Fire Kamila Shamsie · 2017 Essential Read See details →
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Angel Down Daniel Kraus · 2025 Essential Read See details →
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Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki · 2021 Essential Read See details →
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