Literary Fiction4.0A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Challenging · 339 pp.
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Literary Fiction3.5A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Accessible · 406 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman · 2012
Accessible · 393 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Challenging · 428 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Challenging · 327 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Moderate · 353 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Moderate · 346 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · 2016
Moderate · 631 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Accessible · 574 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
Moderate · 585 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Moderate · 340 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Educated
Tara Westover · 2018
Accessible · 618 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1911
Accessible · 396 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2014
Accessible · 606 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
Challenging · 523 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969
Moderate · 321 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Challenging · 453 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001
Moderate · 443 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng · 2017
Moderate · 620 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden · 1997
Challenging · 662 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Accessible · 425 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
Moderate · 511 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
Accessible · 424 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
Accessible · 365 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Moderate · 604 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977
Challenging · 342 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
Moderate · 571 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7Sula
Toni Morrison · 1973
Challenging · 625 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934
Challenging · 577 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 1988
Moderate · 579 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
Moderate · 308 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell · 2014
Challenging · 600 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Challenging · 400 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951
Moderate · 418 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
Moderate · 493 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2003
Moderate · 626 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 2012
Moderate · 584 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
Accessible · 486 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Challenging · 524 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Help
Kathryn Stockett · 2009
Moderate · 543 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1989
Challenging · 487 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003
Challenging · 522 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman · 2012
Moderate · 487 pp.
Literary Fiction4.3The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Challenging · 576 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Moderate · 467 pp.
Literary Fiction3.8The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
Accessible · 381 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018
Challenging · 396 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Challenging · 486 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver · 1998
Accessible · 639 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 1993
Moderate · 459 pp.
Literary Fiction3.6The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
Moderate · 360 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Accessible · 311 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Challenging · 300 pp.
Literary Fiction4.1The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926
Accessible · 454 pp.
Literary Fiction3.9The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015
Moderate · 572 pp.
Literary Fiction3.7The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce · 2012
Challenging · 445 pp.
Literary Fiction4.0The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Challenging · 311 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
Moderate · 577 pp.
Literary Fiction3.5To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
Accessible · 667 pp.
Literary Fiction4.2Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Moderate · 575 pp.