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Every literary fiction title we currently recommend — each one human-reviewed.
Hanya Yanagihara
Four college friends' intertwined lives in New York unfold over decades, centered on one man whose hidden trauma shapes everything around him.
Fredrik Backman
A rigid, grieving widower's carefully ordered life is disrupted by a chaotic new family next door, in a story that is both very funny and quietly devastating.
Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl and a German soldier boy's paths converge during the Allied invasion of France in World War II.
Sally Rooney
Two friends navigate love, ambition, and the meaning of a life well-lived, largely through the emails they exchange.
Toni Morrison
A formerly enslaved woman is haunted, literally, by the past she tried to escape, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the legacy of slavery.
Abraham Verghese
Twin brothers, born of a secret union and orphaned at birth, grow up in an Ethiopian mission hospital in this sweeping generational saga.
Barbara Kingsolver
A boy in Appalachia survives poverty, foster care, and the opioid crisis, in a modern retelling of Dickens' David Copperfield.
Tara Westover
A woman raised off-grid by survivalist parents who forbade formal schooling fights her way to a PhD, at great personal cost.
Mohsin Hamid
A couple fleeing a city collapsing into civil war discovers mysterious doors that instantly transport people elsewhere in the world.
Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters, one sold into slavery and one married into a slave-trading family, and their descendants' lives are traced across centuries.
Kazuo Ishiguro
An artificial companion, chosen to keep a sick child company, observes and slowly comes to understand the humans she's devoted to.
Celeste Ng
A custody battle over an adopted baby exposes the secrets and tensions simmering beneath a picture-perfect Ohio suburb.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Three friends raised at an idyllic English boarding school slowly come to understand the fate they were always destined for.
Sally Rooney
Two Irish teenagers' on-and-off relationship, shaped by class and insecurity, follows them from school into early adulthood.
Ocean Vuong
A young writer addresses a letter to his illiterate mother, unpacking family, identity, and inherited trauma across generations.
Min Jin Lee
A Korean family's fortunes are traced across four generations, largely as immigrants in Japan facing persistent discrimination.
Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death, this follows a young girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and finds meaning in words amid the war around her.
Donna Tartt
A boy survives a museum bombing that kills his mother and steals a small, priceless painting, which shapes the rest of his life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A mysterious, wealthy man's obsessive pursuit of a lost love unravels the illusions of the Jazz Age American dream.
Margaret Atwood
In a totalitarian theocracy that has stripped women of all autonomy, one woman is forced into reproductive servitude for the ruling class.
Khaled Hosseini
A wealthy Afghan boy's betrayal of his closest friend haunts him for decades, across a story of guilt, atonement, and a homeland transformed by war.
Matt Haig
A woman contemplating suicide finds herself in a library between life and death, able to try out the lives she might have lived.
Kristin Hannah
Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France choose radically different paths of survival and resistance.
Richard Powers
Nine strangers' lives are drawn together around the ancient, interconnected network of trees, in a novel about ecology and activism.
Kazuo Ishiguro
An aging English butler's road trip becomes a quiet reckoning with a lifetime of duty, restraint, and suppressed feeling.
Donna Tartt
A group of eccentric classics students at an elite Vermont college spiral toward the murder of one of their own.
Brit Bennett
Twin sisters from a small Black community take radically different paths after one leaves to pass as white.
Gabrielle Zevin
A decades-long creative partnership and friendship between two video game designers, from college through fame and personal loss.
Delia Owens
A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marshes becomes a murder suspect, in a story that blends coming-of-age and mystery.