Dark Emotional Fiction

Intimate, devastating, unforgettable — fiction for late hours.

Dark Contemporary Fiction4.2

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Moderate · 394 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction3.9

Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2001

Moderate · 442 pp.

Dark Emotional Fiction4.2

Beach Read

Emily Henry · 2020

Moderate · 356 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1

Circe

Madeline Miller · 2018

Accessible · 464 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction4.3

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell · 2004

Challenging · 535 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction4.1

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr · 2021

Accessible · 413 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction3.7

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng · 2014

Challenging · 430 pp.

Dark Emotional Fiction3.7

Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon · 2015

Challenging · 502 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction3.8

Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes · 1984

Accessible · 492 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction4.3

Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee · 2007

Challenging · 649 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction3.7

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006

Challenging · 612 pp.

Dark Contemporary Fiction4.0

Home

Marilynne Robinson · 2008

Challenging · 659 pp.