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American Contemporary Books
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The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.78 — 415,285 ratings — published 1993
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.85 — 198,836 ratings — published 2001
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.04 — 664,330 ratings — published 2002
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,028,341 ratings — published 2009
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.86 — 269,154 ratings — published 2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.89 — 279,009 ratings — published 2007
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,043,919 ratings — published 2013
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.70 — 250,067 ratings — published 2010
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 435,580 ratings — published 2005
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,846,334 ratings — published 2006
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.60 — 568,207 ratings — published 2018
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.75 — 176,429 ratings — published 2017
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,486,857 ratings — published 1969
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,548 ratings — published 1997
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 5 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.80 — 363,883 ratings — published 1991
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.43 — 504,386 ratings — published 2024
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,364,678 ratings — published 2022
Our Missing Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.79 — 211,433 ratings — published 2022
The Netanyahus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.79 — 18,927 ratings — published 2021
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,316,804 ratings — published 2017
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,125,579 ratings — published 2017
Death in Her Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.23 — 55,580 ratings — published 2020
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.12 — 857,949 ratings — published 2020
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.28 — 934,517 ratings — published 2015
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.83 — 612,606 ratings — published 2014
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.76 — 60,300 ratings — published 2014
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,859,576 ratings — published 2019
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.11 — 197,527 ratings — published 2018
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.62 — 224,394 ratings — published 2017
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.72 — 59,890 ratings — published 2018
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,040,980 ratings — published 2006
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.02 — 284,472 ratings — published 2003
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,241 ratings — published 1989
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.19 — 36,573 ratings — published 2015
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,803 ratings — published 2003
The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.96 — 148,969 ratings — published 1998
The Circle (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.43 — 231,547 ratings — published 2013
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.00 — 78,252 ratings — published 1981
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.86 — 127,491 ratings — published 1985
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.80 — 175,449 ratings — published 2010
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,457,425 ratings — published 2012
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.94 — 323,541 ratings — published 2001
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,604 ratings — published 1995
The Marriage Plot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.48 — 124,584 ratings — published 2011
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.17 — 249,305 ratings — published 2005
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 147,257 ratings — published 1992
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,909 ratings — published 1997
Long Island Compromise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.75 — 46,713 ratings — published 2024
All Fours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.41 — 214,373 ratings — published 2024
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-contemporary)
avg rating 3.27 — 7,068 ratings — published 2023
