2001 · Ian McEwan · 371 pages · Literary Fiction
McEwan's masterpiece about the devastating consequences of a child's lie is a brilliantly constructed novel that uses the act of storytelling itself to explore guilt, love, and the impossibility of making things right.
2011 · Elena Ferrante · 331 pages · Literary Fiction
Ferrante's first Neapolitan novel captures the fierce, complicated bond between two girls growing up in 1950s Naples with a psychological intensity that has made it a modern classic of women's fiction.
2001 · Jonathan Franzen · 568 pages · Literary Fiction
Franzen's scathingly funny and deeply empathetic family epic captures the dysfunction and love of a Midwestern family with the scope and ambition of a great social novel.
2002 · Haruki Murakami · 480 pages · Literary Fiction
A hypnotic blend of myth, mystery, and Murakami's signature surrealism that rewards readers willing to embrace its ambiguity and let its dream logic wash over them.
2009 · Haruki Murakami · 1157 pages · Literary Fiction
Murakami's most ambitious novel is a sprawling love story set in a world with two moons, delivering mesmerizing passages alongside frustrating stretches of self-indulgence.