#Literary Fiction

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

mystery

Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

Normal People

by Sally Rooney

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

5/5

A father and his young son walk alone through a burned and blasted post-apocalyptic landscape, pushing a shopping cart of scavenged supplies toward the coast. Sparse and devastating, this Pulitzer Prize winner explores love, survival, and what it means to carry the fire of hope.

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

Three women — Madeline, Celeste, and Jane — become friends at their children's school orientation in a picturesque Australian seaside town. But beneath the surface of school fundraisers and playground politics, dark secrets fester, building toward a catastrophic trivia night.

mystery

Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

Six interconnected stories spanning from the 19th-century Pacific to a post-apocalyptic future, each nested inside the next like Russian dolls. Mitchell weaves themes of predation, compassion, and the eternal recurrence of human nature across centuries.

Normal People

by Sally Rooney

Connell and Marianne circle each other from secondary school in small-town Ireland to university at Trinity College Dublin. Their on-again, off-again relationship is shaped by class, insecurity, and miscommunication in Rooney's devastating portrait of modern intimacy.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

Two Jewish cousins in 1940s New York create a wildly successful comic book superhero, channeling their dreams, fears, and the shadow of World War II into four-color adventures. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

A group of eccentric classics students at an elite Vermont college become so obsessed with Greek ideals of beauty and perfection that they cross a terrible moral boundary. A reverse murder mystery that reveals the killing on page one, then unravels the why.

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

Henry DeTamble involuntarily time travels, appearing at random moments in the life of Clare Abshire, the woman he loves. Their relationship unfolds out of order, creating a deeply moving love story about patience, fate, and the pain of being unstuck in time.