Dark Contemporary Fiction4.2A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Moderate · 394 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary novels where shadow and conscience share the page.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.2
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.9Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001
Moderate · 442 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018
Accessible · 464 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.3Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Challenging · 535 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
Accessible · 413 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.7Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2014
Challenging · 430 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.8Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes · 1984
Accessible · 492 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.3Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee · 2007
Challenging · 649 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.7Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
Challenging · 612 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.0Home
Marilynne Robinson · 2008
Challenging · 659 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.9Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke · 2004
Moderate · 597 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
Accessible · 328 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985
Accessible · 570 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.8Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Accessible · 427 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.2Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 1953
Moderate · 616 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
Accessible · 672 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.3Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Challenging · 447 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.5Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
Accessible · 646 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1Sula
Toni Morrison · 1973
Accessible · 460 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.5The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 1970
Accessible · 466 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.6The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell · 2014
Moderate · 384 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · 1979
Accessible · 475 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.0The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn · 2022
Challenging · 361 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.6The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy · 1997
Moderate · 464 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.7The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer · 2008
Challenging · 462 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction4.3The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1989
Challenging · 390 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.7The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003
Challenging · 396 pp.
Dark Contemporary Fiction3.7The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
Challenging · 573 pp.