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.
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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction
Joyce G. Saricks
Genre Transitions in Contemporary Fiction
Selin Şencan
The Victim and the Worm
Phyllis Bottome
Creative Writing
Colin Bulman
Keeping Up Appearances
Tricia Stringer
The Empire of the Senses
Alexis Landau
A Jamaican Family's Saga 2
Leonard Archie Wilson
Feasts of Phantoms
Kehinde Adeola Ayeni
Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
Alice Bennett
How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II
James N. Frey
Back on Track
Tricia Stringer
Birds of a Feather
Tricia Stringer
Absolution
Clara Viebig
Storied and Supernatural Places
Ülo Valk
Year's Best SF 9
David G. Hartwell
This Healing of Memories
Betty Larosa
Writing the Novella
Sharon Oard Warner
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The House on Seabreeze Shore
Jessie Newton
True Liars
Isha Inamdar
The Yule Log
J R Rain
Medicine and Women's Fiction
Louise Benson James
Eugenie Grandet
Honoré De Balzac
The Road Trip
Tricia Stringer
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.