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For any speculative fiction (by the most inclusive definition - if you think it might count, it counts) that exhibits "literary" traits such as: strong themes, thought-provoking ideas, deep emotional meaning, artful use of language, or so on. If a book "feels" literary to you, go ahead and add it.
This is highly subjective, of course, but I think it could make for an interesting open list. Let's see what we end up with :)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4 stars
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4 stars
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (Space Odyssey, #1)
4 stars
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.
So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time …
Vita Nostra by Marina Diatchenko, Sergueï Diatchenko (Les Métamorphoses, #1)
4 stars
Vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur… « Notre vie est brève, elle finira bientôt… »
C’est dans le bourg paumé …
The Goblin Emperor by Sarah Monette
4 stars
Fantasy novel by Sarah Monette under the pseudonym Katherine Addison.
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
4 stars
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb …
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
4 stars
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, …
The Raksura books count by dent of their wildly creative worldbuilding alone.
The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip
5 stars
The Changeling Sea is a fantasy novel for juvenile readers by Patricia A. McKillip. It was first published in hardcover …
4 stars
One–time professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But …
