Literary Fiction

5 titles

Staff pick The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974

Two worlds, two systems, one physicist who sees both clearly. Le Guin doesn’t resolve the tension between them — she lives in it. The most honest political novel written as science fiction.

Translated Remainder

Tom McCarthy

A novel about authenticity and obsession. Quietly disturbing in ways that accumulate slowly.

Classic The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati, 1940

A soldier waits his whole life for a war that may never arrive.

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

Stoner

John Williams, 1965