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  1. You'll find classics, contemporary novels, and plenty of genre representation, including historical fiction, science fiction, romance, and fantasy. Any reader who has read all 100 can claim mastery of the Western canon as well as 21st century pop culture.

    • The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
    • A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry.
    • The White Tiger Aravind Adiga.
    • Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie.
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    • Giveaways. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1) by Colm Tóibín. Release date: Apr 17, 2009. We're giving away 50 copies of Colm Tóibín's beloved BROOKLYN in anticipation of Eilis's story continuing in LONG ISLAND, out in May! ...
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    • Lists. YA Novels of 2012. 1,234 books — 10,554 voters. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. 1,329 books — 7,226 voters. Best Adult Vampire Books. 1,762 books — 7,759 voters.
    • Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
    • Open Water, Caleb Azumah Nelson
    • Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So
    • Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
    • The Life of The Mind, Christine Smallwood
    • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
    • Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
    • My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
    • The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr.
    • Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead

    The eighth novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, longlisted for the Booker Prize, follows a robot-like “Artificial Friend” named Klara, who sits in a store and waits to be purchased. When she becomes the companion of an ailing 14-year-old girl, Klara puts her observations of the world to the test. In exploring the dynamic between th...

    In his incisive debut novel, Caleb Azumah Nelson tells a bruising love story about young Black artists in London. His protagonist is a photographer who has fallen for a dancer, and Nelson proves masterly at writing young love, clocking the small and seemingly meaningless moments that encompass longing. In just over 150 intimate pages, Nelson celebr...

    The nine stories that constitute Anthony Veasna So’s stirring debut collection, published after his death at 28, reveal a portrait of a Cambodian American community in California. One follows two sisters at their family’s 24-hour donut shop as they reflect on the father who left them. Another focuses on a high school badminton coach who is stuck in...

    The five protagonists of Anthony Doerr’s kaleidoscopic and remarkably constructed third novel, all living on the margins of society, are connected by an ancient Greek story. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, a National Book Award finalist, a present-day storyline anchors a sweeping narrative: in a library, an ex-prisoner of war is rehearsing a theatrical adapt...

    The contemporary fiction landscape is full of protagonists like Christine Smallwood’s Dorothy: white millennial women who are grappling with their privilege and existencein a world that constantly feels like it’s on the verge of collapse. Plot is secondary to whatever is going on inside their heads. But Dorothy, an adjunct English professor endurin...

    The debut novel from poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, longlisted for a National Book Award, is a piercing epic that follows the story of one American family from the colonial slave trade to present day. At its core is the mission of Ailey Pearl Garfield, a Black woman coming of age in the 1980s and ’90s, determined to learn more about her family histo...

    Reese is a 30-something trans woman who desperately wants a child. Her ex Ames, who recently detransitioned, just learned his new lover is pregnant with his baby. Ames presents Reese with the opportunity she’s been waiting for: perhaps the three of them can raise the baby together. In her delectable debut novel, Torrey Peters follows these characte...

    Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s searing short-story collectionis one to read in order. Its narratives dissect an American present that doesn’t feel at all removed from the country’s violent past, and they build to a brutal finish. The unnerving standout piece—the titular novella—follows a group of neighbors who seek refuge on Thomas Jefferson’s plantation...

    At a plantation in the antebellum South, enslaved teenagers Isaiah and Samuel work in a barn and seek refuge in each other until one of their own, after adopting their master’s religious beliefs, betrays their trust. In The Prophets,a National Book Award finalist, Robert Jones, Jr. traces the teens’ relationship, as well as the lives of the women w...

    The beginning of Maggie Shipstead’s astounding novel, a Booker finalist, includes a series of endings: two plane crashes, a sunken ship and several people dead. The bad luck continues when one of the ship’s young survivors, Marian, grows up to become a pilot—only to disappear on the job. Shipstead unravels parallel narratives, Marian’s and that of ...

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    • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. “I think Charlotte Brontë’s most accomplished book is Villette. It’s probably a better book, it’s tighter and more sophisticated in some ways.
    • Middlemarch by George Eliot. “I think one does often turn to novelists to get a sense of other people’s lives. It was written in 1871, but it’s written about a period 40 or so years before, the period when Ada Lovelace flourished.
    • The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson. “Homer was prototypical literature, and in a sense the holy book of ancient Greece. It laid out much of the fundamental mythology; and for a certain period it was even performed on state occasions.
    • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. “In one of the introductions that it has been published with, she specifically describes it as a thought experiment.
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  4. Our reading list of the best fiction books includes science fiction, YA, dystopian fiction, 20th century classics, detective novels, children's books that appeal to adults, and some of the greatest stories ever told. The Great Gatsby, Dracula, 1984... the list goes on and on.