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Literary Fiction
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Best Short Novels: Essential Reads Under 200 Pages
The best short novels — from The Stranger and Animal Farm to The Old Man and the Sea and Siddhartha. Great literature you can read in an afternoon.
Best Short Story Collections: Essential Reading List
The best short story collections ever written — from Dubliners and Nine Stories to Interpreter of Maladies and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Best Southern Literature: Essential Novels from the American South
The best Southern literature — from Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor to Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson. Essential novels from the American South.
Best Spanish Literature: Essential Novels from Spain
The best Spanish literature — from Don Quixote and The Shadow of the Wind to One Hundred Years of Solitude. Essential novels from Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.
Best Stream of Consciousness Novels: The Greatest Works of Interior Fiction
The best stream of consciousness novels — from Ulysses to Mrs Dalloway to The Sound and the Fury. Fiction that renders the interior life in its full complexity.
Best Victorian Novels: Essential 19th-Century British Fiction
The best Victorian novels — from Middlemarch and Jane Eyre to Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights. Essential 19th-century British fiction for modern readers.
Best Vietnam War Books: Essential Fiction and Non-Fiction
The best Vietnam War books — from The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato to The Quiet American and Tree of Smoke. Essential Vietnam War fiction and history.
Best World War One Books: Fiction and Non-Fiction
The best World War One books — from All Quiet on the Western Front and Birdsong to Regeneration and A Farewell to Arms. Essential WWI fiction and history.
Books Like The Shining: 10 Horror Novels
If you loved The Shining — the isolated setting, the psychological horror, the family under supernatural pressure — these 10 novels deliver the same dread. The best books like The Shining.
Colm Tóibín Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Colm Tóibín's complete bibliography in order — from Brooklyn and Nora Webster to The Testament of Mary. Best starting points for new readers.
C.S. Lewis Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
C.S. Lewis's complete bibliography in order — from The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters to Mere Christianity and Till We Have Faces.
David Foster Wallace Books in Order: Complete Guide & Best Starting Points
David Foster Wallace's complete bibliography — from Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster to The Pale King and A Supposedly Fun Thing. Where to start and reading order.
David Mitchell Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
David Mitchell's complete bibliography in order — from Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet to Black Swan Green. Best starting points for new readers.
Denis Johnson Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Denis Johnson's complete bibliography in order — from Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke to Train Dreams. Best starting points for new readers of his fiction and poetry.
Don DeLillo Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Don DeLillo's complete bibliography in order — from White Noise and Underworld to Libra and Falling Man. Best starting points and reading order for this postmodern American master.
Emily St. John Mandel Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Emily St. John Mandel's complete bibliography in order — from Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel to Sea of Tranquility. Best starting points for new readers.
Gustave Flaubert Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Gustave Flaubert's complete bibliography in order — from Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education to Three Tales and Salammbô. Best starting points for new readers.
Henry James Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Henry James's complete bibliography in order — from The Portrait of a Lady and Washington Square to The Turn of the Screw and The Bostonians. Best starting points.
Ian McEwan Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Ian McEwan's complete bibliography in order — from Atonement and Enduring Love to On Chesil Beach and Machines Like Me. Best starting points for new readers.
Isabel Allende Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Isabel Allende's complete bibliography in order — from The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna to Daughter of Fortune and A Long Petal of the Sea. Best starting points.
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