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Highly Rated Literary Fiction

Literary Fiction rated 4.1 or higher on Hardcover, from at least 300 ratings. Leaves out young adult and children's titles, omnibus editions, and books that are not the first in their series.

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A Gentleman In Moscow

Amor Towles

4.3 Hardcover · 940 ratings

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A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

4.4 Hardcover · 1,582 ratings

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A Prayer For Owen Meany

John Irving

4.1 Hardcover · 360 ratings

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All The Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

4.2 Hardcover · 1,551 ratings

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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.2 Hardcover · 539 ratings

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Anxious People

Fredrik Backman

4.2 Hardcover · 1,265 ratings

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Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

4.4 Hardcover · 855 ratings

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

4.1 Hardcover · 1,162 ratings

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Exhalation

Ted Chiang

4.3 Hardcover · 967 ratings

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Flowers For Algernon

Daniel Keyes

4.3 Hardcover · 2,463 ratings

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Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)

James Baldwin

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Good Omens: The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman

4.2 Hardcover · 2,862 ratings

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Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

4.1 Hardcover · 597 ratings

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Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

4.4 Hardcover · 538 ratings

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

4.2 Hardcover · 1,193 ratings

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Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

4.3 Hardcover · 419 ratings

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Lessons In Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

4.1 Hardcover · 1,359 ratings

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No Country For Old Men

Cormac Mccarthy

4.1 Hardcover · 680 ratings

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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

4.3 Hardcover · 966 ratings

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

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Stoner

John Williams

4.4 Hardcover · 888 ratings

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The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

4.2 Hardcover · 2,388 ratings

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The Name Of The Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

4.5 Hardcover · 3,930 ratings

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The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.3 Hardcover · 3,427 ratings

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The Song Of Achilles

Madeline Miller

4.3 Hardcover · 3,272 ratings

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The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Hiro Arikawa

4.3 Hardcover · 338 ratings

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The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

4.1 Hardcover · 849 ratings

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