Literary Fiction books
Character- and prose-driven; style and ideas matter as much as plot. Here are 48 books with a lot of literary fiction, starting with The News from Dublin: Stories, The Stranger and Atonement.
The News from Dublin: StoriesColm Tóibín
The StrangerAlbert Camus
AtonementIan McEwan
The Silver BookOlivia Laing
On BeautyZadie Smith
The Bee StingPaul Murray
The Golden HouseSalman Rushdie
On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousOcean Vuong
Interior ChinatownCharles Yu
As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver
A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaAnthony Marra
LolitaVladimir Nabokov
MiddlesexJeffrey Eugenides
BeautylandMarie-Helene Bertino
OrbitalSamantha Harvey
Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro
Burnt SugarAvni Doshi
Martyr!Kaveh Akbar
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' GuildMathias Énard
Human ActsHan Kang
1Q84Haruki Murakami
On the Calculation of Volume ISolvej Balle
The Bluest EyeToni Morrison
The Blind AssassinMargaret Atwood
TrainspottingIrvine Welsh
Olive KitteridgeElizabeth Strout
The Shipping NewsAnnie Proulx
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
The HoursMichael Cunningham
House of Sand and FogAndre Dubus III
The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro
The Sense of an EndingJulian Barnes
Fates and FuriesLauren Groff
Sodom and GomorrahMarcel Proust
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable ThingsJon McGregor
WaterlandGraham Swift
Something HappenedJoseph Heller
So Long, See You TomorrowWilliam Maxwell
The CounterfeitersAndre Gide
The InfatuationsJavier Marias
Hannah CoulterWendell Berry
There but for theAli Smith
The Street of CrocodilesBruno Schulz
Life and Death are Wearing Me OutMo Yan
HistoryElsa Morante
TransitRachel Cusk
The VivisectorPatrick White