Literary Fiction Books to Read Free Online

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Literary Fiction

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Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

1973 ★ 4.2

The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

1895 ★ 4.6

Rites of passages

Annie Proulx, William Golding, Fernando Santos Fontenla

1980 ★ 3.5

The siege of Krishnapur

J.G. Farrell

1975 ★ 4.0

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

2001 ★ 3.8

Shadow of a bull

Maia Wojciechowska

1964

Lenin in Zurich

Александр Солженицын

1976

Too Much Happiness

Alice Munro

2009 ★ 4.0

The Lantern Bearers

R. Sutcliff, Rosemary Sutcliff

1959 ★ 4.8

Onion John

Joseph Krumgold

1959 ★ 3.0

Replay

Ken Grimwood

1988 ★ 4.3

Home

Toni Morrison

2012 ★ 4.0

Quicksilver

Neal Stephenson

2003 ★ 4.0

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

1970 ★ 4.2

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle

1993 ★ 3.8

The healer's war

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

1988

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

1998 ★ 3.8

Humboldt's Gift

Saul Bellow

1973 ★ 3.8

Smoky Night

Eve Bunting

1994 ★ 5.0

The March

E. L. Doctorow

2005

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis, Alberto Jimenez Rioja, Reginald André Jackson et al.

1999 ★ 4.5

A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)

Vernor Vinge

1999 ★ 4.4

Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge

2006 ★ 3.6

The education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

1907

The Bunker Diary

Kevin Brooks

2013 ★ 4.2

Ringworld

Larry Niven

1970 ★ 3.8

Vurt

Jeff Noon

1993 ★ 4.0

Possession

A. S. Byatt

1990 ★ 3.6

Wolf in the Snow

Matthew Cordell

2017

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

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