Literary Fiction

Literary fiction is a term that has come into common usage in the early 1960s. The term is principally used to distinguish "serious fiction" which is a work that claims to hold literary merit, in comparison from genre fiction and popular fiction. The name literature is sometimes used for this genre, although it can also refer to a broader category of writing. ...more

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Heart the Lover
We Love You, Bunny (Bunny, #2)
What We Can Know
The Wilderness
To the Moon and Back
Hot Wax
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Amity
The Elements (The Elements, #1-4)
The Irish Goodbye
Saltcrop
One of Us
The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore
Will There Ever Be Another You
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