Literary Fiction

Literary fiction is a term that has come into common usage in the early 1960s. The term is principally used to distinguish "serious fiction" which is a work that claims to hold literary merit, in comparison from genre fiction and popular fiction. The name literature is sometimes used for this genre, although it can also refer to a broader category of writing. ...more

  • Bad Nature by Ariel Courage
    Bad Nature

    Release date: Apr 01, 2025
    Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly s ...more
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  • The Logoharp by Arielle  Emmett
    The Logoharp: A Cyborg Novel of China and America in the Year 2121
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    Release date: Jul 20, 2024
    A cyborg novel of China and America in the year 2121. Once an American journalist, Naomi turns into an AI-driven media propagandist for China.
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  • The Greed Beneath the Empire, Vol. 2 by Lamar Golden
    The Greed Beneath the Empire, Vol. 2

    Release date: Jan 02, 2025
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  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieA Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo
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    Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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    508 books — 2,270 voters

    The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAtonement by Ian McEwan
    World War II Fiction
    1,220 books — 2,071 voters
    Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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    577 books — 2,036 voters

    My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelSuch a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
    Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
    583 books — 1,342 voters


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