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The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.78 — 441,062 ratings — published 1993
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.85 — 203,846 ratings — published 2001
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,097,449 ratings — published 2009
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.04 — 672,898 ratings — published 2002
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,083,586 ratings — published 2013
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.86 — 281,162 ratings — published 2008
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.70 — 256,260 ratings — published 2010
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 440,122 ratings — published 2005
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,870,328 ratings — published 2006
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.80 — 382,045 ratings — published 1991
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,010,435 ratings — published 2015
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.75 — 65,448 ratings — published 2014
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.59 — 621,670 ratings — published 2018
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,087,802 ratings — published 2006
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,464 ratings — published 2007
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.08 — 223,257 ratings — published 2003
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.74 — 185,481 ratings — published 2017
The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.96 — 151,802 ratings — published 1998
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,527,755 ratings — published 1969
American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.95 — 91,489 ratings — published 1997
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.41 — 601,457 ratings — published 2024
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467,427 ratings — published 2022
Our Missing Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.79 — 219,952 ratings — published 2022
The Netanyahus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.79 — 20,143 ratings — published 2021
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,353,644 ratings — published 2017
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,433,045 ratings — published 2017
Death in Her Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.22 — 59,355 ratings — published 2020
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.11 — 883,896 ratings — published 2020
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.83 — 627,217 ratings — published 2014
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,950,424 ratings — published 2019
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 209,348 ratings — published 2018
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.62 — 231,875 ratings — published 2017
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.71 — 63,235 ratings — published 2018
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.14 — 245,467 ratings — published 1985
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.02 — 289,383 ratings — published 2003
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,681 ratings — published 1989
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.18 — 38,283 ratings — published 2015
The Circle (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.43 — 235,686 ratings — published 2013
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,836 ratings — published 1981
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,405 ratings — published 1970
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.86 — 131,780 ratings — published 1985
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,489,145 ratings — published 2002
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.80 — 177,758 ratings — published 2010
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,557,216 ratings — published 2012
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.94 — 338,835 ratings — published 2001
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.66 — 35,246 ratings — published 1995
The Marriage Plot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.48 — 125,752 ratings — published 2011
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.17 — 268,816 ratings — published 2005
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.07 — 156,277 ratings — published 1992
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.95 — 34,892 ratings — published 1997