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Contemporary American Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,050,529 ratings — published 1992
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,147 ratings — published 2013
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,863,655 ratings — published 2003
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,468,861 ratings — published 2002
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.46 — 820,564 ratings — published 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,670,095 ratings — published 2018
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,383,954 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,323,051 ratings — published 2017
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.60 — 576,438 ratings — published 2018
The Immortalists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.71 — 221,231 ratings — published 2018
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,039,191 ratings — published 2009
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,017,384 ratings — published 1999
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.70 — 251,053 ratings — published 2010
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 128,187 ratings — published 1985
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 665,756 ratings — published 2002
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,049,065 ratings — published 2006
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,034,566 ratings — published 2011
Purity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.65 — 51,776 ratings — published 2015
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,998,888 ratings — published 2014
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.01 — 722,768 ratings — published 2000
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,473,529 ratings — published 2012
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.78 — 419,116 ratings — published 1993
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 495,826 ratings — published 1987
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.80 — 175,857 ratings — published 2010
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.89 — 279,801 ratings — published 2007
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,366 ratings — published 1996
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,850,183 ratings — published 2006
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 125,985 ratings — published 2004
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.11 — 797,768 ratings — published 1998
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.27 — 947,441 ratings — published 2015
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,064,671 ratings — published 2023
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.68 — 238,074 ratings — published 1984
My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.60 — 191,381 ratings — published 2016
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.94 — 846,005 ratings — published 2009
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 757,632 ratings — published 1982
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.71 — 127,365 ratings — published 2013
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.76 — 61,283 ratings — published 2014
The Little Friend (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.48 — 83,473 ratings — published 2002
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.01 — 810,856 ratings — published 2003
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 436,369 ratings — published 2005
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.61 — 101,427 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 647,967 ratings — published 1996
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,520,831 ratings — published 2003
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 97,029 ratings — published 2008
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,873,950 ratings — published 1953
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.20 — 783,947 ratings — published 1962
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,374 ratings — published 1969
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 225,889 ratings — published 1985
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 270,947 ratings — published 2008
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,538,732 ratings — published 2003
