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Literary Fiction: Included with Kindle Unlimited

9 reviewed literary fiction books included

Literary fiction is the genre KU is supposed to be bad at. Mostly, it is. That's exactly why this page exists: when something with real prose ambition lands in the catalog, it's easy to miss. These are the literary titles we rated on craft, not convenience, that happen to be readable free right now.

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Book cover of The Alchemist: A Modern Classic Fable of Spiritual Healing, Self-Discovery, and the Power of Dreams by Paulo Coelho

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The Alchemist: A Modern Classic Fable of Spiritual Healing, Self-Discovery, and the Power of Dreams

by Paulo Coelho

4.8/ 5

Paulo Coelho's slim, parable-like novel follows a shepherd boy chasing a recurring dream of buried treasure across the desert, and turns that simple quest into a lasting argument about listening to what you actually want.

Book cover of The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

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The Poet Empress

by Shen Tao

4.8/ 5

The Poet Empress is Shen Tao's dark, dazzling fantasy debut, set in the crumbling Azalea Dynasty where magic lives inside poetry and women are forbidden to read. To save her starving family, Wei Yin sells herself into a brutal royal house and discovers she can wield the one power the empire worked hardest to keep from her. For readers of She Who Became the Sun and R.F. Kuang.

Book cover of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.7/ 5

Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo hands a fading, fiercely guarded Hollywood legend the chance to confess her real life to an unknown reporter. It's old-glamour fiction with a queer love story at its center and an ambitious woman's reckoning running underneath the gossip.

Book cover of The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

4.5/ 5

Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an epistolary coming-of-age novel narrated by Charlie, a watchful freshman who writes letters to a stranger he'll never meet. It's quiet, tender, and quietly devastating, a book about standing on the outside of your own adolescence and slowly learning to step in.

Book cover of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

4.2/ 5

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale builds a near-future America remade into Gilead, a theocracy that reduces fertile women to state property. Told by Offred in fragments and held breath, it's a dystopia whose horror comes from how plausibly it's assembled. For readers who want speculative fiction with real social bite.