📕 Fiction Books
Curated Fiction titles — reviews, authors and recommendations for readers
Explore our hand-picked selection of Fiction books. Each title includes its author, year, page count and a real synopsis to help you decide what to read next — and a chat room to discuss them with other readers.
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The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald
A widow opens a bookshop in an English coastal town and the whole town conspires against her. Fitzgerald, subtle and devastating.
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The Truth About the Savolta Case
Eduardo Mendoza
Bombings, unionists and dirty business in early 20th-century Barcelona. Mendoza's debut masterfully blends intrigue and humor.
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The Obscene Bird of Night
José Donoso
A narrative nightmare about an old Chilean mansion full of monsters and deformities. Donoso and the darkest peak of the boom.
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Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa
"At what point had Peru screwed itself up?" Vargas Llosa dissects a dictatorship from a bar conversation. A prodigious structure.
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo
The Corleone family, honor, blood and business. The novel that defined the mafia in popular imagination.
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Paradiso
José Lezama Lima
Baroque, exuberant prose follows a young man's coming of age in Havana. Lezama Lima's monument of Caribbean Spanish.
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Stoner
John Williams
The grey, dignified life of a literature professor no one will remember. A novel about quiet failure that became a cult classic.
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The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
The brutality of a Lima military school as a portrait of an entire society. The novel that launched the Latin American boom.
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Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
You can read it in order or by hopping chapters: Cortázar lets you choose the path. Paris, Buenos Aires and a love called la Maga.
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
A dying tycoon reviews how he betrayed the ideals of the Mexican Revolution. Fuentes' portrait of a country.
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No One Writes to the Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez
An old colonel waits years for a pension that never comes, clinging to his dignity and a fighting cock. García Márquez, brief and perfect.
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On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sabato
Love, madness and a delirious "Report on the Blind" in Sabato's Buenos Aires. A total, feverish novel.
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
A pilot tries to escape the war, but asking to be discharged proves he's sane and so must keep flying. A brilliant war satire.
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
A bombardier wants to be declared insane to avoid flying, but asking proves he's sane. The definitive satire on the absurdity of war and bureaucracy.
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The Truce
Mario Benedetti
A widower about to retire falls in love again and finds that happiness is frightening too. Benedetti at his purest: everyday and devastating.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
A girl in the US South watches her lawyer father defend a wrongly accused Black man. On racism and innocence lost.
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Two friends cross the United States again and again seeking jazz, sex and a meaning that eludes them. The bible of the Beat Generation, written in a feverish rush.
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
The confession of a cultured man obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl, written with a beauty that disturbs. One of the most troubling and best-written novels of the 20th century.
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Shipwrecked boys on an island slide from civilization to savagery. Golding's chilling allegory of human nature.
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
An old Cuban fisherman battles a giant fish alone for days, in a struggle that is also man's against his fate. Hemingway at his purest: dry, deep, essential.
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield wanders New York hating adult hypocrisy. The most influential teenage voice in literature.
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The Hive
Camilo José Cela
Dozens of characters crossing paths in a starving Madrid. Cela portrays an entire city across a few grey days.
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The Path
Miguel Delibes
A boy's last night in his village before leaving for the city to study. Delibes' tenderest, sharpest child's-eye view.
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The Tunnel
Ernesto Sabato
A painter confesses why he killed the only woman who understood him. A brief, suffocating descent into an obsessive mind.
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The Cypress' Shadow Is Long
Miguel Delibes
An orphan raised in melancholic Ávila learns to fear affection because all that is loved is lost. Delibes' debut.
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Nada
Carmen Laforet
A young woman arrives in postwar Barcelona to study and meets a suffocating family. Laforet was 23 and wrote an instant classic.
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
The animals rebel against the farmer and end up repeating tyranny. The perfect political satire on power that corrupts.
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
Meursault kills a man under the Algiers sun and feels nothing, not even at his trial. Existential absurdity at its purest.
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
A family of farmers ruined by the Great Depression crosses the United States seeking work and dignity. The great American social novel.
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Two ranch hands dream of a farm of their own while drifting through Depression-era California, until one man's uncontrolled strength ruins everything. Brief, perfect and devastating.
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The decline of a Southern family told through four voices, one of them a man with an intellectual disability. Faulkner pushes stream of consciousness to the limit.
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Gregor Samsa wakes up turned into a giant insect and his family cares more about his salary. Kafka and anguish made literature.
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Mist
Miguel de Unamuno
A character discovers he's fictional and goes to argue with his author. Unamuno was a century ahead on metafiction.
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The Tree of Knowledge
Pío Baroja
A disillusioned doctor seeks meaning in the backward Spain of the century's end. Baroja and the pessimism of the Generation of '98.
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
A sailor travels up the Congo seeking the enigmatic Kurtz and meets the horror of colonialism. Brief and devastating.
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