General Fiction

Fiction that is geared towards a general audience. Includes plays, poetry, novels, novellas and short stories. For young adult fiction, click here.

A

• Call Me By Your Name – André Aciman
• Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
• Night Magic – Charlotte Vale Allen
• Antigone – Jean Anouilh
• A Stitch in Time (A Stitch in Time #1) – Kelley Armstrong
• Lady Susan – Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• Brontë’s Mistress – Finola Austin

B

• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend – Katarina Bivald
• Wenjack – Joseph Boyden
• My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
• With Love in Sight – Christina Britton
• The Pisces – Melissa Broder

C

• Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
• Blood Sisters – Jane Corry
• Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton

D

• Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert #1) – Olivia Dade
• The Last Thing He Told Me – Laura Dave
• William Shakespeare’s The Phantom of Menace (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars #1) – Ian Doescher
• William Shakespeare’s The Clone Army Attacketh (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars #2) – Ian Doescher
• Radiance (Wraith Kings #1) – Grace Draven
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5) – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

F

• The Wives – Tarryn Fisher
• Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
• Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
• The Grownup – Gillian Flynn

G

• Le quatrième siècle (The Fourth Century) – Édouard Glissant
• Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
• Bear Necessity – James Gould-Bourn

H

• The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
• The Book of Lost Names – Kristin Harmel
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix
• Kiss of the Fur Queen – Tomson Highway
• Crimson Peak – Nancy Holder
• Best Friends Forever – Margot Hunt

J

• The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
• Fanfan – Alexandre Jardin
• The Music Shop – Rachel Joyce

K

• Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
• The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
• Hidden Bodies (You #2) – Caroline Kepnes
• You (You #1) – Caroline Kepnes 
• The Dinner – Herman Koch

L

• The Couple Next Door – Shari Lapena
• Autopsy of a Boring Wife (Diane #1) – Marie-Renée Lavoie
• Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
• Dear Emmie Blue – Lia Louis

M

• Pélagie: The Return to Acadie – Antonine Maillet
• Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Sunshine – Robin McKinley
• The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides 
• V for Vendetta – Steve Moore
• Utopia – Sir Thomas More
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
• The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
• Men Without Women – Haruki Murakami
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

N

• Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) – Sylvain Neuvel
• Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
• Acide Sulfurique (Sulfuric Acid) – Amélie Nothomb
• Antéchrista (Antichrista) – Amélie Nothomb
• Barbe bleue – Amélie Nothomb
• Le Crime du comte Neville – Amélie Nothomb
• Journal d’Hirondelle – Amélie Nothomb
• Ni d’Ève ni d’Adam – Amélie Nothomb
• Soif – Amélie Nothomb

O

• Rooms – Lauren Oliver
• 1984 – George Orwell

P

• Fierce Kingdom – Gin Phillips
• My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
• Little Fish – Casey Plett
• Belle: An Amish Retelling of Beauty & the Beast – Sarah Price
• The Maid – Nita Prose

Q

• The Duke & I (Bridgerton’s #1) – Julia Quinn
• The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgerton’s #2) – Julia Quinn

R

• The Italian Teacher – Tom Rachman 
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Iain Reid
• Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
• Normal People – Sally Rooney
• Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
• Attachments – Rainbow Rowell
• Landline – Rainbow Rowell
• My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell

S

• In Five Years – Rebecca Serle
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Borrows
• The Atrocities – Jeremy C. Shipp
• Message in a Bottle – Nicholas Sparks
• My Name is Lucy Barton (Amgash #1) – Elizabeth Strout

T

• The Queen’s Gambit – Walter Tevis
• After (After #1) – Anna Todd
• After We Collided (After #2) – Anna Todd
• The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton

V

• Annihilation (Southern Reach #1) – Jeff VanderMeer
• Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

W

• The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
• Jonny Appleseed – Joshua Whitehead
• Would Like to Meet – Rachel Winters
• Beauty – Susan Wilson

Z

• Cobble Hill – Cecily von Ziegesar
• The Royal Game – Stefan Zweig

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