Novels that define modern literary taste.
Jordan B. Peterson · 2018
Moderate · 320 pp.
George Orwell · 1949
Haruki Murakami · 2009
Challenging · 591 pp.
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Challenging · 579 pp.
Franz Kafka · 1924
Moderate · 353 pp.
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Moderate · 572 pp.
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Accessible · 649 pp.
Jennifer Egan · 2010
Challenging · 435 pp.
Margaret Atwood · 1996
Accessible · 340 pp.
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Challenging · 369 pp.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013
Accessible · 580 pp.
Franz Kafka · 1927
Moderate · 299 pp.
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1986
Challenging · 465 pp.
Leo Tolstoy · 1877
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
James Clear · 2018
Michelle Obama · 2018
Moderate · 419 pp.
Kate Atkinson · 1995
Moderate · 413 pp.
Martin Heidegger · 1927
Toni Morrison · 1987
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015
Accessible · 313 pp.
Elizabeth Gilbert · 2015
Anne Lamott · 1994
José Saramago · 1995
Challenging · 672 pp.
