Philosophical Fiction

Novels that want to think. Ideas about mind, ethics and knowledge worked out through character and plot — the argument carried by the story rather than stated beside it.

On the The Literary Shelf shelf.

Books shelved as Philosophical Fiction

• Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami
• Viaje al Reino de los Deseos — Rafael Ángel Herra
• Avengers vs. X-Men, Part 1 — Brian Michael Bendis / Jason Aaron / Kathryn Immonen / Jonathan Hickman / Ed Brubaker / Matt Fraction / John Romita Jr. / Olivier Coipel / Adam Kubert / Stuart Immonen / Frank Cho
• Stranger in a Strange Land — James Warhola
• Collected Fictions — Andrew Hurley
• The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga — Arthur Avalon
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• La-Bas — Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Fury — Clyo Mendoza
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy
• Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library — Barbara Marciniak
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Michael Henry Heim
• Solaris — Steve Cox
• Las ruinas circulares — Jorge Luis Borges
• Vagabundos — Hao Jingfang
• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• The Midnight Library — Matt Haig
• The Resurrections: A Novel — Simon Louvish
• The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 — Norman Thomas di Giovanni
• Pieties — Marc Ruvolo
• The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 — Jorge Luis Borges
• El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo — Javier Cercas
• Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings — Jorge Luis Borges

Related genres

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

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