Fictional works Books to Read Free Online

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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

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The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

2004 ★ 3.8

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

2009 ★ 4.0

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

2010 ★ 3.4

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

1970 ★ 4.2

The March

E. L. Doctorow

2005

Atonement

Ian McEwan

2002 ★ 3.7

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

2008 ★ 3.8

Olive Kitteridge

Rosa Perez Perez, Elizabeth Strout

2008 ★ 4.3

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

2012 ★ 4.1

A thousand acres

Jane Smiley

1991 ★ 4.0

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

1953 ★ 4.0

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

1851 ★ 4.0

La Peste

Albert Camus

1947 ★ 4.1

L’étranger

Albert Camus

1942 ★ 4.1

Flickan som lekte med elden

Stieg Larsson

2008 ★ 4.0

Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri

2008 ★ 3.9

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

2003 ★ 4.1

Luftslottet som sprängdes

Stieg Larsson

2007 ★ 4.0

The talisman

Stephen King, Peter Straub

1984 ★ 4.1

Nemesis

Philip Roth

2010 ★ 3.8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. K. Rowling

2007 ★ 4.3

The Help

Kathryn Stockett, Alvaro Abella, Álvaro Abella Villar

2009 ★ 4.3

The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown

2009 ★ 3.6

Little Bee

Chris Cleave

2009 ★ 4.2

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

2012 ★ 4.2

Half broke horses

Jeanette walls, Jeannette Walls

2009 ★ 4.1

Clear and Present Danger

Tom Clancy

1989 ★ 4.0

The inheritance of loss

Kiran Desai

2005 ★ 3.6

Let the great world spin

Colum McCann

2009 ★ 3.7

Howards End

E. M. Forster

1910 ★ 4.3

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