Top 100 Literary Fiction Books

📘 Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 To Kill a Mockingbird

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Lolita

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after he becomes her stepfather.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Ningen shikkaku

Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Kite Runner

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 The Color Purple

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Of Mice and Men

The second book in John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy, Of Mice and Men is a touching tale of two migrant laborers in search of work and eventual liberation from their social circumstances. Fiercely devoted to one another, George and Lennie plan to save up to finance their dream of someday owning a small piece of land.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Reminders of Him

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Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Преступление и наказание

Crime and Punishment is a classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of a young man who schemes to murder a pawnbroker to fund good deeds.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Anna Karenina

Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Emma

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Sense and Sensibility

A timeless tale of love, sisterhood, and the complexities of social customs and class in 19th-century England.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 East of Eden

Steinbeck considered East of Eden to be his masterpiece.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Rebecca

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 La Peste

The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 On The Road

A nonfiction novel chronicling the adventures of a group of friends on their cross-country journey of discovery, featuring characters like Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as real-life friends Neal Casady.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Americanah

Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Love on the Brain

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis—with explosive results.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 War and Peace

War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel begins in the year 1805 during the reign of Tsar Alexander I and leads up to the 1812 French invasion of Russia by Napoleon.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Women in Love

Dark, but filled with bright genius, Women in Love is a prophetic masterpiece steeped in eroticism, filled with perceptions about sexual power and obsession that have proven to be timeless and true.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Братья Карамазовы

The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Julius Caesar

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Sula

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Passing

First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen's prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town house with their sons.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Der Proceß

Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Awakening

The Awakening by Kate Chopin: A Novel of Women's Struggle and Feminism in the Late 19th Century South

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 La Chute

Num bar de marinheiros em Amesterdão, um homem que se apresenta como juiz-penitente enceta conversa com um desconhecido.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Walden

Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Something I Never Told You

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway's profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 White Fang

The story of a wolf/dog cross, who is raised by Indians, and becomes a deadly fighter.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Their Eyes Were Watching God

<p><i>Their Eyes Were Watching God</i> (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager to a woman in control of her destiny.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Forty Rules of Love

In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual m...

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 La casa de los espíritus

A powerful family saga of landowners in 19th-century Latin America with a mystical backdrop and themes of family dynamics and social tension, adapted into a gripping film adaptation featuring actors like Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Too Late

Asa prowadzi nielegalny biznes, jest obsesyjnie zakochany w Sloan. Nie cofnie się przed niczym, by zniszczyć każdego, kto choć spróbuje stanąć między nimi. Sam natomiast pogrąża się w uzależnieniu od imprez, narkotyków, seksu. Sloan jest gotowa znieść wiele, nawet jeśli ceną jest jej godność. Tkwi w toksycznym związku, by...

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Como agua para chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker Prize‑winning novel, intertwines India’s journey from colonial rule to independence with the personal saga of Saleem Sinai in a tale of historical myth and magical realism.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Invisible Man

Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who does not fully understand racism in the world. Filled with hope about his future, he goes to college, but gets expelled for showing one of the white benefactors the real and seamy side of black existence.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Lessons in Chemistry

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Madame Bovary

Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle vie. Son premier amant lui donne le goût du luxe et fait miroiter un avenir à deux avant de l'abandonner.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 It Happened One Summer

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 My Sister's Keeper

With her penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of real people, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person, and what happens when emotions meet with scientific advances. ***Now a major film.*** Anna is not sick, but she might as well be.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 The Pilgrim's Progress

Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, the Wicket Gate, as well as those who tempt him from his path (e.g., Talkative, Mr.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Neon Gods

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 1984 (adaptation)

Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching. Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Crime and Punishment

A morally complex tale of redemption and guilt in 19th-century Russia.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Идіотъ

A novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a naive Prince Myshkin who becomes entangled in a love triangle and betrayal in a changing society.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Записки изъ подполья

A Russian novel about a bitter, isolated civil servant who criticizes emerging Western philosophy and attacks Nikolay Chernyshevsky's 'What Is to Be Done?'.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 King Lear

King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders through a storm. His banished daughter returns with an army, but they lose the battle and Lear, all his daughters and more, die.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury Classic)

The Lisbons are a Catholic family living in Grosse Pointe, Michigan in the 1970s. The father, Ronald, is a math teacher at a private school and the mother is a homemaker. The family has five daughters: 13-year-old Cecilia, 14-year-old Lux, 15-year-old Bonnie, 16-year-old Mary, and 17-year-old Therese.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Say You Swear

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 A tree grows in Brooklyn

A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story of poverty and resilience in 1930s Brooklyn.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Alone with You in the Ether

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Go Tell It on the Mountain

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. It was Rand's first major literary success and brought her fame and financial success. More than 6.5 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Forbidden knowledge

Forbidden Knowledge boldly traces the tragic arc of Western literature and culture as it explores the notion of "forbidden knowledge," from the sexual innocence of Adam and Eve to the awe-inspiring discoveries of modern scientists who have created the atomic bomb and recombinant DNA.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 binding 13

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Song of Solomon

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Il pendolo di Foucault

*Il pendolo di Foucault* è il secondo romanzo dello scrittore italiano Umberto Eco. Pubblicato nel 1988 dalla casa editrice Bompiani (con cui Eco aveva già un pluridecennale rapporto), è ambientato negli anni della vita dello scrittore, fino ai primi anni ottanta.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Experimental Fiction

📘 Keeping 13

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 A la recherche du temps perdu

Monty Python paid hommage to Proust's novel in a sketch first broadcast on November 16th, 1972, called The All-England Summarize Proust Competition. The winner was the contestant who could best summarize A la recherche du temps perdu in fifteen seconds, "once in a swimsuit and once in evening dress."

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Railway Children

When Father mysteriously goes away, the children and their mother leave their happy life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. 'The Three Chimneys' lies beside a railway track - a constant source of enjoyment to all three.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Lady Chatterley's Lover

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Waves

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The setting sun

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effectives of war and the translation from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazzi died, a suicide, in 1948.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 The Souls of Black Folk

Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Kim Jiyoung, born 1982

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old “millennial everywoman,” she has recently left her white-collar desk job―in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time―as so many Korean women are expected to do.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, his father's weaknesses and the growing realization that in order to make his way in the world he must reject a conventional life and boecome an artist.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 A Passage to India

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Cannery Row

Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Disgrace

At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Cry, the Beloved Country

This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Beautiful and Damned

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Overstory

*The Overstory* unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late-twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett’s chart topping novel, The Vanishing Half, is a story that tracks the lives of twin African American twin sisters who, after witnessing the murder of their father, run away at age 16. One sister begins passing as white and the other sister remains true to her identity.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Native Son

Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old black youth in poverty on Chicago's South Side, becomes embroiled in a brutal murder and must face the consequences of his violent actions in Richard Wright's novel 'Native Son' (1940).

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 2am Thoughts

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Convenience store woman

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 The Inmate

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 White Noise

A professor's harrowing experiences during the Industrial Revolution in post-war America, as he struggles to survive the chaos and loss around him.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Une si longue lettre

This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. A beautiful glimpse inside a woman's heart.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Onyx Storm

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Godan

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 The Haunted Bookshop

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley is the delightful tale of the bookseller Roger Mifflin, the advertising man Aubrey Gilbert, and the lovely Titania Chapman who comes to work at Mifflin's Brooklyn bookshop.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Bleak House

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the ...

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Post office

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Demon Copperhead

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Les 120 Journées de Sodome

A pornographic novel by the infamous Sade, the story relates the tale of four men who sequester themselves at a remote chateau with various women, men and young girls with the intention of experiencing the ultimate sexual gratification by indulging in a series of orgies. A novel that requires a strong stomach.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Another Country

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 God of Fury

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 The Freedom of Life

From the book:INTERIOR freedom rests upon the principle of non-resistance to all the things which seem evil or painful to our natural love of self. But non-resistance alone can accomplish nothing good unless, behind it, there is a strong love for righteousness and truth.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature

📘 Sea of Tranquility

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party.

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Literary Fiction

📘 Indigno de ser humano

Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Classic Literature