Genre: Adult Fiction (19 books)
The best classic books from the Adult Fiction genre.
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file.
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat.
The World According to Garp
John Irving
Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns.
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I traveled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the “hands” on my father’s old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather. Jake’s experience of the world was not much wider than mine. He had never been in a railway train until the morning when we set out together to try our fortunes in a new world.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles.
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.
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