Literary Fiction

Craft-forward novels for attentive portal readers.

Literary Fiction4.0

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Challenging · 339 pp.

Literary Fiction4.1

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Accessible · 534 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman · 2012

Accessible · 393 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 2007

Challenging · 428 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr · 2014

Moderate · 391 pp.

Literary Fiction3.9

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini · 2013

Moderate · 353 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Moderate · 346 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah · 2016

Moderate · 468 pp.

Literary Fiction4.3

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013

Challenging · 495 pp.

Literary Fiction3.8

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell · 2004

Accessible · 574 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr · 2021

Accessible · 340 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 1952

Moderate · 340 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

Educated

Tara Westover · 2018

Accessible · 471 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton · 1911

Accessible · 396 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng · 2014

Challenging · 526 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

Challenging · 523 pp.

Literary Fiction3.9

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou · 1969

Moderate · 321 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

Challenging · 453 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 2001

Moderate · 443 pp.

Literary Fiction3.9

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng · 2017

Moderate · 347 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden · 1997

Accessible · 529 pp.

Literary Fiction4.1

Normal People

Sally Rooney · 2018

Accessible · 425 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey · 1962

Moderate · 511 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

Accessible · 424 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

Orlando

Virginia Woolf · 1928

Accessible · 367 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee · 2017

Challenging · 394 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison · 1977

Moderate · 494 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · 2014

Moderate · 571 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

Sula

Toni Morrison · 1973

Challenging · 536 pp.

Literary Fiction3.9

Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934

Moderate · 531 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho · 1988

Moderate · 579 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

The Alice Network

Kate Quinn · 2017

Challenging · 563 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell · 2014

Challenging · 600 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2005

Challenging · 400 pp.

Literary Fiction3.9

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger · 1951

Moderate · 418 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

The Color Purple

Alice Walker · 1982

Moderate · 493 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon · 2003

Moderate · 626 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green · 2012

Moderate · 584 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah · 2018

Accessible · 486 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

Challenging · 524 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

The Help

Kathryn Stockett · 2009

Moderate · 543 pp.

Literary Fiction4.3

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan · 1989

Challenging · 487 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini · 2003

Challenging · 522 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman · 2012

Moderate · 487 pp.

Literary Fiction4.3

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig · 2020

Challenging · 576 pp.

Literary Fiction3.9

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah · 2015

Moderate · 467 pp.

Literary Fiction3.8

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway · 1952

Accessible · 381 pp.

Literary Fiction4.1

The Overstory

Richard Powers · 2018

Accessible · 642 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett · 1989

Challenging · 486 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver · 1998

Accessible · 307 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

The Prince of Mist

Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 1993

Challenging · 545 pp.

Literary Fiction3.6

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989

Moderate · 360 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 2006

Accessible · 311 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017

Challenging · 300 pp.

Literary Fiction4.1

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway · 1926

Accessible · 454 pp.

Literary Fiction4.0

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015

Challenging · 308 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce · 2012

Challenging · 445 pp.

Literary Fiction3.7

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett · 2020

Challenging · 509 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

Moderate · 577 pp.

Literary Fiction3.5

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · 1960

Accessible · 667 pp.

Literary Fiction4.2

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens · 2018

Moderate · 575 pp.