Fiction
Novels, short stories, plays, poetry, graphic novels and children's literature of every genre. Read for the story and the language rather than for information.
885 books
Books 885
T1 The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · 1906 · The novel that produced US federal food regulation.
T2 The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox · 1984 · Constraint theory taught as a novel; throughput accounting made intuitive.
Francis Bacon · 1627 · Bacon's utopia of organised research; science as an institution
Rene Girard · 1963 · Girard reading Dostoevsky; mimetic rivalry and resentment
Matthew McCleery · 2011 · Novel, but the standard introduction to how ship finance actually works.
Leo Tolstoy · 1869
Edwin Lefevre · 1901 · Short-story collection; his first Wall Street fiction.
Edwin Lefevre · 1905 · Open Library lists it as Golden Flood (Contrary Opinion Library).
Alexandre Dumas · 1920
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920
Aldous Huxley · 1932
Ayn Rand · 1936
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
William Golding · 1954
Kurt Vonnegut · 1956
Chinua Achebe · 1958
Robert A. Heinlein · 1965
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1966
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1967
Judith Viorst · 1972
Italo Calvino · 1972
Peter F. Drucker · 1982 · Novel; not returned by the Open Library author query
Iain M. Banks · 1988
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
James Redfield, Carol Andrienne · 1993
Rohinton Mistry · 1995
Neal Stephenson · 1995
Robin Sharma · 1996
Russell Roberts · 2001 · Economics argued through a novel; markets and their moral defence
Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos · 2002
Barton Biggs · 2010 · Wiley; some listings date it 2011. Open Library unreachable during build
Alan Lightman · 2012
Xiaobo Liu, Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao · 2012
Graham Moore · 2016
Gail Honeyman · 2017
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Sally Rooney · 2018
Richard Powers · 2018
David Grene (ed.), Richmond Lattimore (ed.)
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William Shakespeare
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G.D. Thapar
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Junichiro Tanizaki
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