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Character Driven Fiction Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,063,516 ratings — published 1960
The Shipping News (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 154,546 ratings — published 1993
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 379,033 ratings — published 1989
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 733,379 ratings — published 2025
The Janes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,277 ratings — published
Untimely Deaths: A Time-Traveling Mystery (New Chapel Mysteries Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
The Perfect Sister (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,915 ratings — published
The Wild Beneath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 130 ratings — published 2026
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 338,089 ratings — published 2023
The Inklings Detective Agency (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 253 ratings — published 2026
American Wolf: A Journey of an Avoidant Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 31 ratings — published
Faithful (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,145 ratings — published 2010
This Here Is Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,140 ratings — published 2025
After the Storm: the Story of Hannah Applegate Benson Stone (Hannah's Legacy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 69 ratings — published
True Grit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 78,537 ratings — published 1968
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.60 — 273,383 ratings — published 1985
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,076,764 ratings — published 2009
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,753,141 ratings — published 2018
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 248,719 ratings — published 1886
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 18,147 ratings — published 1948
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,099,242 ratings — published 1992
Crow Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 29,341 ratings — published 2002
Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 43 ratings — published
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,193 ratings — published 2002
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 200,187 ratings — published 1929
You Can't Go Home Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 5,453 ratings — published 1940
Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 56,489 ratings — published 1913
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 506,709 ratings — published 1926
Women in Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.66 — 33,819 ratings — published 1920
In Search of Lost Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 14,464 ratings — published 1913
Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,345 ratings — published 1935
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,358,271 ratings — published 1952
Look Homeward, Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,025 ratings — published 1929
The Heart's Invisible Furies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 226,070 ratings — published 2017
Buckeye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 147,772 ratings — published 2025
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 100,294 ratings — published 2019
The Measure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 409,410 ratings — published 2022
Heart the Lover (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 397,470 ratings — published 2025
Ricardo de York (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Days at the Torunka Café (Days at the Torunka Café, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,794 ratings — published 2013
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,289,432 ratings — published 1963
Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 89,933 ratings — published 2024
Somebody's Fool (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 8,230 ratings — published 2023
By the Light of the Bluff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published
The Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 425 ratings — published 1961
Empire Falls (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 127,382 ratings — published 2001
The History of Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 142,353 ratings — published 2005
Playworld (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 7,321 ratings — published 2025
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,707,129 ratings — published 1997
In the Orbit of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.64 — 875 ratings — published 2024
“Spencer, we are two people who are reeling in a mountain of pain that we can't seem to shake. We're searching for answers; that's all.”
― Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance
― Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance
“Stories matter because they allow us to step outside ourselves for a while and see the world through someone else’s eyes — another neighborhood, another time, another set of pressures, fears, loyalties, temptations, or regrets.”
― The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning
― The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning
