Reader Essentials

Gateway titles across genres.

Literary Fiction

4.3

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013

Accessible · 580 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie · 2013

Challenging · 699 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1945

Challenging · 426 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

Artemis

Andy Weir · 2017

Moderate · 398 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

Becoming

Michelle Obama · 2018

Moderate · 419 pp.

Fantasy

4.3

Empire of the Vampire

Jay Kristoff · 2021

Accessible · 685 pp.

Thriller

4.3

Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco · 1988

Accessible · 517 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov · 1950

Challenging · 552 pp.

Romance

4.3

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes · 2012

Accessible · 538 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

On the Road

Jack Kerouac · 1957

Accessible · 517 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

Portrait in Sepia

Isabel Allende · 2000

Challenging · 405 pp.

Fantasy

4.3

Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon · 2019

Moderate · 608 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke · 1973

Challenging · 573 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut · 1969

Challenging · 699 pp.

Classics

4.3

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse · 1927

Moderate · 482 pp.

Mystery

4.3

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton · 2018

Moderate · 629 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera · 1979

Moderate · 629 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2005

Challenging · 300 pp.

Fantasy

4.3

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2015

Moderate · 482 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

The Castle

Franz Kafka · 1926

Accessible · 685 pp.

Mystery

4.3

The Devil and the Dark Water

Stuart Turton · 2020

Challenging · 384 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery · 2006

Challenging · 573 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman · 1974

Moderate · 335 pp.

Classics

4.3

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins · 2006

Challenging · 300 pp.