Literary Fiction

Novels that reward close attention.

Literary Fiction

4.0

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

1984

George Orwell · 1949

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Challenging · 579 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.2

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Moderate · 572 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 2007

Accessible · 649 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013

Accessible · 580 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Moderate · 320 pp.

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4.0

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Atomic Habits

James Clear · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Being and Time

Martin Heidegger · 1927

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert · 2015

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott · 1994

Moderate · 320 pp.

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4.0

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell · 2005

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · 1932

Moderate · 320 pp.

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4.0

Built to Last

Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras · 1994

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

Catch-22

Joseph Heller · 1961

Moderate · 509 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez · 1981

Accessible · 424 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

Circe

Madeline Miller · 2018

Accessible · 535 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr · 2021

Challenging · 513 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Company of One

Paul Jarvis · 2019

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

Daisy Jones & The Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2019

Accessible · 409 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Daring Greatly

Brené Brown · 2012

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Deep Work

Cal Newport · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 1968

Moderate · 320 pp.

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4.0

Drive

Daniel H. Pink · 2009

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Dune

Frank Herbert · 1965

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Educated

Tara Westover · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman · 1995

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card · 1985

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Essentialism

Greg McKeown · 2014

Moderate · 320 pp.

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4.0

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury · 1953

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

Challenging · 303 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Foundation

Isaac Asimov · 1951

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

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Founders at Work

Jessica Livingston · 2007

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman · 2021

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner · 2005

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.2

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen · 2010

Moderate · 344 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Getting Things Done

David Allen · 2001

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Good to Great

Jim Collins · 2001

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Grit

Angela Duckworth · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 1899

Accessible · 535 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove · 1983

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Hooked

Nir Eyal · 2014

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie · 1936

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Hyperion

Dan Simmons · 1989

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Indistractable

Nir Eyal · 2019

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Influence

Robert B. Cialdini · 1984

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1952

Challenging · 462 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca · 65

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 2001

Moderate · 683 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · 1955

Accessible · 427 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

Lord of the Flies

William Golding · 1954

Moderate · 509 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Made to Stick

Chip Heath & Dan Heath · 2007

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl · 1946

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius · 180

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.2

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie · 1981

Moderate · 494 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck · 2006

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Misbehaving

Richard H. Thaler · 2015

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 1925

Moderate · 473 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Neuromancer

William Gibson · 1984

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle · -340

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Noise

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony & Cass R. Sunstein · 2021

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Nudge

Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein · 2008

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

On Beauty

Zadie Smith · 2005

Accessible · 604 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

On the Road

Jack Kerouac · 1957

Accessible · 517 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

On Writing

Stephen King · 2000

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey · 1962

Moderate · 491 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Orlando

Virginia Woolf · 1928

Challenging · 480 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell · 2008

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Predictably Irrational

Dan Ariely · 2008

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Principles

Ray Dalio · 2017

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.2

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2003

Moderate · 656 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Quiet

Susan Cain · 2012

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Range

David Epstein · 2019

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Rework

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson · 2010

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert T. Kiyosaki · 1997

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari · 2011

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Show Your Work!

Austin Kleon · 2014

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson · 1992

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder · 1991

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Steal Like an Artist

Austin Kleon · 2012

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert · 2006

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Superforecasting

Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner · 2015

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Switch

Chip Heath & Dan Heath · 2010

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu · -400

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey · 1989

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho · 1988

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Art of War

Sun Tzu · -500

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath · 1963

Challenging · 639 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk · 2014

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

The Book of Two Ways

Jodi Picoult · 2020

Moderate · 281 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger · 1951

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

The Color Purple

Alice Walker · 1982

Moderate · 353 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen · 2001

Accessible · 340 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga · 2013

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Creative Act

Rick Rubin · 2023

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber · 1995

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker · 1967

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Everything Store

Brad Stone · 2013

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz · 1997

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 1984

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt · 2013

Accessible · 595 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck · 1939

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · 1985

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz · 2014

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

The Help

Kathryn Stockett · 2009

Accessible · 505 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende · 1982

Accessible · 478 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen · 1997

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham · 1949

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud · 1900

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini · 2003

Challenging · 642 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries · 2011

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman · 2012

Challenging · 378 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 1915

Challenging · 684 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy · 2017

Challenging · 594 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Mom Test

Rob Fitzpatrick · 2013

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus · 1942

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.2

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead · 2019

Moderate · 308 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway · 1952

Accessible · 661 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The ONE Thing

Gary Keller & Jay Papasan · 2013

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

The Overstory

Richard Powers · 2018

Challenging · 645 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

The Pilgrimage

Paulo Coelho · 1987

Accessible · 418 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg · 2012

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle · 1997

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli · 1532

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel · 2020

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.2

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Republic

Plato · -380

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 2006

Accessible · 391 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie · 1988

Accessible · 499 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd · 2001

Moderate · 455 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017

Challenging · 420 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 2011

Accessible · 466 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Stranger

Albert Camus · 1942

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway · 1926

Accessible · 394 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin · 2008

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell · 2000

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

The Trial

Franz Kafka · 1925

Accessible · 589 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield · 2002

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

Accessible · 304 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows · 2008

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · 2011

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · 1960

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Trillion Dollar Coach

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle · 2019

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen · 2006

Challenging · 507 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens · 2018

Moderate · 575 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

White Teeth

Zadie Smith · 2000

Accessible · 586 pp.