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The Literary Fiction Shelf

Novels read for the sentence as much as the story.

24 books in this list

Character-led fiction from across the catalogue, gathered for readers who want to slow down.

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Literary Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.

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Literary Fiction

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.

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Literary Fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

Seven generations of the Buendía family rise and repeat themselves in the invented town of Macondo.

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Literary Fiction

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Sethe escaped slavery years ago. The house she lives in has not let her leave it behind.

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Literary Fiction

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

An orphaned governess refuses, repeatedly, to be made smaller than she is.

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Literary Fiction

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

A father and son walk south through ash, carrying the fire between them.

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