Fiction

Novels and short stories that are not science fiction or fantasy.

Recommended

31 books someone recommended or argued with.

Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
👍 2 Endorsements
Cited on Conversations with Tyler, Lex Fridman Podcast
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler, Founders, Lex Fridman Podcast
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
Ayn Rand
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk, Lex Fridman Podcast
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
A Movable Feast
A Movable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Decencia
Álvaro Enrigue
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Divided Heaven
Christa Wolf
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on The Ezra Klein Show
Life and Fate
Life and Fate
Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways
C. L. R. James
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
Mary
Vladimir Nabokov
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Radetzky March
Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
Red and the Black
Red and the Black
Horace Barnet Samuel
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Stoner
John Williams
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on The Ezra Klein Show
Submission
Submission
Michel Houellebecq
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Death of Artemio Cruz
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on The Ezra Klein Show
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Ernest Hemingway
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Founders
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler

Also mentioned

Named in passing or by their own author.

Ulysses
James Joyce
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
A Certain Ambiguity
Gaurav Suri
🎙️ 1 Author Plug
Cited on EconTalk
À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
Marcel Proust
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
Passing references only
Cited on The Tim Ferriss Show
Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth
🎙️ 1 Author Plug
Cited on Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
Don Quixote
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Passing references only
Cited on The Tim Ferriss Show
Fifty Shades of Grey
E. L. James
Passing references only
Cited on The Tim Ferriss Show
Islands in the Stream
Ernest Hemingway
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
Lost Horizon
James Hilton
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Passing references only
Cited on Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
On The Road
Jack Kerouac
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Passing references only
Cited on Lex Fridman Podcast
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
The Brothers Karamazov
Fiódor Dostoievski
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
The Mind-body Problem
The Mind-body Problem
Rebecca Goldstein
🎙️ 1 Author Plug
Cited on EconTalk
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Passing references only
Cited on Lex Fridman Podcast
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler