Fiction - Novels
Samuel Beckett, Molloy, 1955, literary fiction, postmodernism.
T. C. Boyle: Water Music, 1980, literary fiction, historical fiction, comic novel.
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim, 1900, literary fiction, psychological fiction.
Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961, literary fiction, science fiction.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007, literary fiction, historical fiction, war novel.
Franz Kafka, The Trial, 1937, literary fiction, modernism, philosophical fiction, dystopian fiction, absurdist fiction, paranoid fiction.
Dennis Lehane: The Given Day, 2008, literary fiction, crime fiction.
Tom Robbins: Still Life with Woodpecker, 1980, literary fiction, postmodernism, humor.
Vladimir Nabokov: Bend Sinister, 1939, literary fiction, dystopian fiction, late modernism.
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, 2017 literary fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, experimental fiction.
Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise, 1981, literary fiction, naturalism, stream of cons…
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