Realist novels

1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy

1951 novel by J. D. Salinger

novel by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

2003 novel by Khaled Hosseini

1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac

1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway

1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev

novel by Gustave Flaubert

1956 philosophical novel by Albert Camus

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Leavened with comic elements, Middlemarch approaches significant historical events in a realist mode: the Reform Act 1832, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. I

2013 novel by Haruki Murakami

1979 novel by Haruki Murakami

novel by Stanisław Lem

novel by José Saramago

novel by Halldór Laxness (1934, 1935)

a novel by the Portuguese writer

1893 novel by Stephen Crane

1964 novel by Chinua Achebe

Fontamara () is a 1933 novel by the Italian author Ignazio Silone, written when he was a refugee from Fascist Italy in Switzerland. It is Silone's first novel and it is regarded as his most famous work. It received worldwide acclaim and sold more than a million and a half copies in twenty-seven languages. It was first published in German translation in Switzerland in 1933; English translation was published by Penguin Books in September 1934. In 1980, it was adapted by Carlo Lizzani into an eponymous film.

1876 novel by Benito Pérez Galdós

1894 novel by Federico De Roberto

Japanese novel written in 1887

Korean-language short story

novel by Alan Sillitoe

2010 novel by Nicholas Spark

1878 novel by José Maria de Eça de Queirós

novel by Panas Myrnyi