Essential Literary Fiction

Novels that define modern literary taste.

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A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Challenging · 579 pp.

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Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Moderate · 686 pp.

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East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 1952

Moderate · 380 pp.

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Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton · 1911

Accessible · 436 pp.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

Challenging · 303 pp.

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Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 2001

Moderate · 683 pp.

Literary Fiction4.1

Normal People

Sally Rooney · 2018

Accessible · 445 pp.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey · 1962

Moderate · 491 pp.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

Accessible · 484 pp.

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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · 2014

Moderate · 311 pp.

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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho · 1988

Moderate · 419 pp.

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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2005

Challenging · 300 pp.