Genre
Literary Fiction Books
Character-driven, prize-winning and book-club fiction.
Literary fiction on EIKNA covers prize winners, book-club picks and character-driven novels where voice, theme and style lead the story.
Browse Literary Fiction
The Talk in Jane Austen
Jane Austen Society of North America
Marriage as a National Fiction
Dagmar Stöferle
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market
O. Dwivedi
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Irish Science Fiction
Jack Fennell
The Postcolonial Exotic
Graham Huggan
Hollywood, Ending
John Green
Astonishing the Gods
Ben Okri
That Was a Shiver
James Kelman
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Wolf Hall: Winner of the Man Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel
Fathermucker
Greg Olear
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
The "improper" Feminine
Lyn Pykett
Experiencing Ways Through Words
Emily Abdeni-Holman
Novel Schooling
Bridget T. Chalk
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry
S. Ponzanesi
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Last Orders
Graham Swift
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
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John Berger
Literary Fiction books: common questions
- What makes a book literary fiction?
- Literary fiction puts character, language and ideas ahead of plot conventions; it is often what book clubs and literary prizes focus on.