Modern Classics

21st-century novels already iconic.

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.

Literary Fiction

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.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell · 2005

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · 1932

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

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.