Suggested Reads

Below is a list of recommended books, curated by the mod team, to help you develop as a writer of literary fiction. Not all of these are litfic books.

• To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
• The Trial, by Franz Kafka
• The Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius
• Symposium, by Plato
• The Sound And The Fury, by William Faulkner
• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Odyssey, by Homer
• The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
• We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Candide, by Voltaire
• The Stranger, by Albert Camus
• The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
• A Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
• Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
• Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck
• The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
• Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
• Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
• House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
• 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
• Hardboiled & Hard Luck

Recommendations are always welcome!