The Best Fiction Books to Read Next

Matt Haig

A gentle, page-turning meditation on regret and the roads not taken.

George Orwell

The book that defined what a surveillance state feels like from the inside.

Paulo Coelho

A fable-like nudge to actually go after the thing you keep putting off.

Khaled Hosseini

One of those books that will genuinely wreck you, in a good way.

Markus Zusak

Manages to be tender and funny even while set in one of history's darkest moments.

Delia Owens

Equal parts courtroom mystery and love letter to the natural world.

Jojo Moyes

A love story that refuses to give you the ending you're rooting for.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

One of the most talked-about book club picks of the last decade, for good reason.

Harper Lee

As relevant now as it was on publication, which is exactly the problem it's about.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Short, glamorous, and quietly devastating by the final page.

Gail Honeyman

Starts as a comedy about an odd woman, quietly becomes something much deeper.

Fredrik Backman

You will laugh, then cry, often on the same page.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can read it in an hour and think about it for years.

Aldous Huxley

A quieter, stranger kind of dystopia than 1984 — happiness as the trap.

Haruki Murakami

Quietly devastating in a way that lingers for days after you finish it.

Khaled Hosseini

Even more devastating than The Kite Runner, and just as hard to put down.

Anthony Doerr

Prose so beautiful you'll want to read passages twice.

Donna Tartt

The book that basically invented dark academia as a vibe.

Liane Moriarty

Sharp, funny, and surprisingly moving underneath the domestic-drama surface.

Kazuo Ishiguro

A dystopia so understated you almost don't notice how dark it is.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The book that made magical realism a household term.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A love letter to books and libraries wrapped in a genuine mystery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The original deep dive into a criminal mind, still unmatched.

Alice Walker

Heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful in equal measure.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Funny and clear-eyed about things most novels tiptoe around.

Sally Rooney

Devastatingly accurate about how badly two people who love each other can communicate.

Mark Haddon

A genuinely different way of seeing the world, told with real warmth.

Stephen Chbosky

The book a lot of people credit with helping them survive being a teenager.

J.D. Salinger

The voice is the whole book, and it's still unmistakable decades later.

Albert Camus

The clearest, shortest entry point into existentialist fiction.

Haruki Murakami

For when you want a book that refuses to fully explain itself.

Kazuo Ishiguro

One of the gentlest, saddest robots in fiction.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A love story about patience that most modern romances wouldn't dare attempt.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A genuine commitment, but one many readers call the greatest novel ever written.

Toni Morrison

A ghost story that is really about the impossibility of forgetting.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A war novel that centers the people history books usually skip.

Sally Rooney

Cool, detached prose hiding a lot of real feeling underneath.

Jostein Gaarder

The friendliest possible way into philosophy, wrapped in an actual story.