Literary Fiction

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Literary Fiction

The novels that survived. Tolstoy to Ferrante.

139 essential works

Cover of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Cover of Ulysses by James Joyce

1922 · Ireland

Cover of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Cover of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

1967 · Colombia

Cover of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Cover of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cover of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Cover of The Trial by Franz Kafka

1925 · Bohemia/Czech Republic

Cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot

Cover of The Stranger by Albert Camus

Cover of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

1955 · Russia/USA

Cover of Beloved by Toni Morrison

Cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Cover of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Cover of The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Cover of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Cover of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

Cover of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

1924 · Germany

Cover of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Cover of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

1899 · Poland/UK

Cover of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Cover of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Cover of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Cover of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

1981 · UK/India

Cover of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Cover of Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

1944 · Argentina

Cover of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

Cover of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Cover of On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1916 · Ireland

Cover of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Cover of Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Cover of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño

Cover of The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

Cover of Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Cover of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Cover of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

Cover of When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

Cover of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1984 · Czech Republic

Cover of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Cover of Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Cover of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

Cover of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon

Cover of East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Cover of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

Cover of If This Is a Man by Primo Levi

If This Is a Man

Cover of The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

1959 · Germany

Cover of Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

Cover of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Cover of Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

Cover of The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

The Cairo Trilogy

Cover of Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Season of Migration to the North

Cover of Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

1999 · South Africa

Cover of A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry

1995 · India/Canada

Cover of Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Cover of The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

The Man Without Qualities

1930 · Austria

Cover of Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Under the Volcano

Cover of Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

Cover of Native Son by Richard Wright

Cover of Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

1927 · Germany

Cover of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1890 · Ireland/UK

Cover of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

Cover of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Cover of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

1985 · Colombia

Cover of Hopscotch (Rayuela) by Julio Cortázar

Hopscotch (Rayuela)

Julio Cortázar

1963 · Argentina

Cover of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Cover of Germinal by Émile Zola

Cover of Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Berlin Alexanderplatz

1929 · Germany

Cover of The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

1982 · Portugal

Cover of If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

If on a winter's night a traveler

Cover of The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

The Woman in the Dunes

Cover of My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Cover of Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

1904 · Poland/UK

Cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

Cover of Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec

Life: A User's Manual

Cover of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne

Cover of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

Cover of Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Sophie's Choice

Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Cover of Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 · Nigeria

Cover of The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare

The General of the Dead Army

1963 · Albania

Cover of The Plague by Albert Camus

Cover of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

Cover of Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

1901 · Germany

Cover of Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

Waiting for the Barbarians

1980 · South Africa

Cover of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

Cover of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 · Dominica/UK

Cover of Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Cover of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Cover of Atonement by Ian McEwan

Cover of White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Cover of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

Cover of Stoner by John Williams

Cover of The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Cover of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

Cover of The Human Stain by Philip Roth

The Human Stain

Cover of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Plot Against America

Cover of The Known World by Edward P. Jones

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

Cover of Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

2001 · Germany

Cover of The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

Cover of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Cover of Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Cover of The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

The Last Samurai

Cover of On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Cover of The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Cover of A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Cover of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Cover of Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

Cover of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Cover of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2007 · USA/Dominican Republic

Cover of Erasure by Percival Everett

Percival Everett

Cover of The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

The Days of Abandonment

Cover of The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño

1998 · Chile/Mexico

Cover of A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Cover of Outline by Rachel Cusk

2014 · UK/Canada

Cover of Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

1853 · United Kingdom

Cover of Emma by Jane Austen

1815 · United Kingdom

Cover of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady

1881 · United States

Cover of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

1958 · Nigeria

Cover of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

1962 · United States

Cover of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1961 · United Kingdom

Cover of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

1850 · United Kingdom

Cover of Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

1980 · United States

Cover of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Cover of Animal Farm by George Orwell

Cover of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

Cover of Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

Cover of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Cover of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Cover of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Cover of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry