Fiction

Stories that didn't actually happen, but could have (in some cases).

Book (133)

Rating Artist Name Published
Walter Mosley Always outnumbered, Always outgunned
Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
Lynda Barry Cruddy
In Our Time
In Our Time
Alistair MacLeod Island
Chris Ware Jimmy Corigan Smartest Kid On Earth
8.0 Arthur S. Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
Lynda Barry One Hundred Demons
William Maxwell So Long See You Tomorrow
Howard Cruse Stuck Rubber Baby
Jimmy Buffett Tales From Margaritaville
8.0 Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
7.5 John Scalzi When the Moon Hits Your Eye 2025
Neal Stephenson Polostan 2024
Steven Wright Harold 2023
Bill Waterson, John Kascht The Mysteries 2023
John Scalzi Starter Villain 2023
R. F. Kuang Babel 2022
N. K. Jemisin The World We Make 2022
Josh Ritter The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All 2021
Hank Green A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor 2020
9.0 N. K. Jemisin The City We Became 2020
8.0 Glendy Vanderah Where the Forest Meets the Stars 2019
Hank Green An Absolutely Remarkable Thing 2018
7.0 Laksmi Pamuntjak The Birdwoman's Palate 2018
7.5 Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology 2017
T.C. Boyle The Harder They Come 2015
9.0 Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2013
Mark Helprin In Sunlight and In Shadow 2012
Josh Ritter Bright's Passage 2011
8.0 Neal Stephenson Reamde: A Novel 2011
T.C. Boyle The Women 2009
9.0 Ursula K. Le Guin Lavinia 2008
5.0 Jia Pingwa Happy Dreams 2007
Neal Stephenson The System of the World 2004
Neal Stephenson The Confusion 2004
Neal Stephenson Quicksilver 2003
8.0 Tom Robbins Villa Incognito 2003
8.5 Neil Gaiman Coraline 2002
Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 2000
7.0 T.C. Boyle A Friend of the Earth 2000
7.0 Colleen McCullough Morgan's Run 2000
9.0 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999
8.0 Kurt Vonnegut God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian 1999
Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary 1998
Henry Rollins Solipsist 1998
8.0 Kurt Vonnegut Timequake 1997
Ralph Ellison Flying Home 1996
Neil Gaiman Neverwhere 1996
Richard Adams Tales from Watership Down 1996
8.0 Mark Helprin Memoir from Antproof Case 1995
Michael Crichton Disclosure 1994
Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas 1994
Neal Stephenson, George Jewsbury Interface 1994
6.0 Umberto Eco The Island of the Day Before 1994
T.C. Boyle The Road to Wellville 1993
8.0 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses 1992
Mark Helprin Ellis Island & Other Stories 1991
Michael Shaara For Love of the Game 1991
9.5 Mark Helprin A Soldier of the Great War 1991
Mark Helprin A Dove of the East and: Other Stories 1990
T.C. Boyle East Is East 1990
Kurt Vonnegut Hocus Pocus 1990
Michael Crichton Jurassic Park 1990
9.0 Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All 1990
Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum 1988
6.5 Neal Stephenson Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller 1988
Kurt Vonnegut Bluebeard 1987
5.0 Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos 1985
Neal Stephenson The Big U 1984
9.0 Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume 1984
George R. R. Martin Armageddon Rag 1983
Peter De Vries Slouching Towards Kalamazoo 1983
Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America 1983
9.0 Mark Helprin Winter's Tale 1983
7.5 Kurt Vonnegut Deadeye Dick 1982
George R. R. Martin Fevre Dream 1982
Stephen King The Running Man 1982
7.0 Richard Adams Girl in a Swing 1980
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose 1980
8.0 Tom Robbins Still Life With Woodpecker 1980
Kurt Vonnegut Jailbird 1979
Stephen King The Long Walk 1979
Richard Adams The Plague Dogs 1977
Mark Helprin Refiner's Fire 1977
Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds 1977
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1976
Kurt Vonnegut Slapstick 1976
8.0 Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions 1973
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1972
Richard Adams Watership Down 1972
8.0 Tom Robbins Another Roadside Attraction 1971
Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June 1970
10.0 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969
Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House 1968
Kurt Vonnegut God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: Or Pearls Before Swine 1965
Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963
Peter De Vries The Blood of the Lamb 1961
Kurt Vonnegut Mother Night 1961
Susan Ertz In The Cool of the Day 1960
Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959
Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1958
Jack Kerouac On the Road 1957
8.5 Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 1955
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1953
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man 1952
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 1952
9.0 George Orwell 1984 1949
George Orwell Animal Farm 1946
Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940
Ernest Hemingway To Have and Have Not 1937
P. G. Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 1934
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London 1933
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms 1929
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 1926
Ernest Hemingway In Our Time 1925
Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1922
W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage 1915
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 1902
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876
Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass 1871
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot 1869
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo 1846
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 1818
Jane Austen Persuasion 1818
Jane Austen Emma 1815
Jane Austen Mansfield Park 1814
9.0 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1813
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 1811