Literary Fiction

The work that resists easy genre — the novel as art object. Prose that demands and rewards attention, from Woolf to Sebald to today's most uncompromising voices.

On the The Literary Shelf shelf.

Books shelved as Literary Fiction

• A Harlot High and Low — Rayner Heppenstall / Honoré de Balzac
• There There — Tommy Orange
• Banal Nightmare — Halle Butler
• An Oral Fixation — Piper Vaughn
• The Blacktongue Thief — Christopher Buehlman
• She Isn't Herself Tonight — Hailey Piper
• Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor
• Jade Legacy — Fonda Lee
• The Bright Sword — Lev Grossman
• El librero de Gaza — Rachid Benzine
• Foundation (Foundation, #1) — Isaac Asimov
• The Naked Sun — Isaac Asimov
• Bastard Out of Carolina — Dorothy Allison
• The Elixir Of Life — Honoré de Balzac
• The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson
• Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami
• El Cepillo De Dientes, El Velero En La Botella — Jorge Díaz
• The Memory Tree — Joseph Pittman
• The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World — Laura Imai Messina
• Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Maeve Fly — CJ Leede
• The Flowers of Buffoonery — Sam Bett
• To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
• Barbarian Lover — Ruby Dixon

Related genres

• Classics
• Psychological Fiction
• Contemporary Fiction
• Short Fiction
• Magical Realism
• Philosophical Fiction
• Experimental & Avant-Garde
• Anthology
• Cult Fiction
• Metafiction
• Surrealism
• Epistolary Fiction
• Existential
• Postmodern
• Modernist
• Symbolist
• Hopeful Fiction

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