Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

  • The Bottle Factory Outing

    #522

    The Bottle Factory Outing

    by Beryl Bainbridge

    (2 Reviews)

    21 Points

    "The hearse stood outside the block of flats, waiting for the old lady."

  • Omensetter's Luck

    #528

    Omensetter's Luck

    by William H. Gass

    (1 Review)

    19 Points

  • The Razor's Edge

    #529

    The Razor's Edge

    by W. Somerset Maugham

    (2 Reviews)

    19 Points

    "I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it."

  • Oblomov

    #531

    Oblomov

    by Ivan Goncharov

    (3 Reviews)

    19 Points

    "Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov was lying in bed one morning in his flat in Gorohovy Street, in one of the big houses that had almost as many inhabitants as a whole country town."

  • Under the Net

    #536

    Under the Net

    by Iris Murdoch

    (2 Reviews)

    17 Points

    "When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong. Finn usually waits for me in bed, or leaning up against the side of the door with his eyes..."

  • Nine Stories

    #550

    Nine Stories

    by J. D. Salinger

    (4 Reviews)

    15 Points

    "There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her..."

  • The Bostonians

    #552

    The Bostonians

    by Henry James

    (1 Review)

    14 Points

    "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that."

  • The Betrothed

    #556

    The Betrothed

    by Alessandro Manzoni

    (3 Reviews)

    14 Points

    "Quel ramo del lago di Como, che volge a mezzogiorno, tra due catene non interrotte di monti, tutto a seni e golfi, a seconda dello sporgere e del rientrare di quelli, vien quasi a un tratto, a..."

  • Money

    #572

    Money

    by Martin Amis

    (3 Reviews)

    11 Points

    "As my cab pulled of FDR Drive, somewhere in the early Hundreds, a low-slung Tomohawk full of black guys came sharking out of lane and slopped in fast right across our bows."

  • The Beautiful and Damned

    #600

    The Beautiful and Damned

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    (4 Reviews)

    5 Points

    "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him."