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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,133,098 ratings — published 1992
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,087,700 ratings — published 2013
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,879,748 ratings — published 2003
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,491,148 ratings — published 2002
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.46 — 913,612 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,476,296 ratings — published 2022
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.59 — 626,484 ratings — published 2018
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,806,613 ratings — published 2018
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,357,076 ratings — published 2017
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,195,622 ratings — published 2011
The Immortalists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.71 — 225,741 ratings — published 2018
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,103,931 ratings — published 2009
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,078,615 ratings — published 1999
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.70 — 256,779 ratings — published 2010
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 132,159 ratings — published 1985
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 673,753 ratings — published 2002
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,092,834 ratings — published 2006
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,178,516 ratings — published 2023
Purity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.65 — 52,541 ratings — published 2015
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,076,208 ratings — published 2014
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.01 — 731,336 ratings — published 2000
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,566,640 ratings — published 2012
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.78 — 442,839 ratings — published 1993
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 516,507 ratings — published 1987
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.80 — 178,029 ratings — published 2010
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,815 ratings — published 2007
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,288 ratings — published 1996
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,872,407 ratings — published 2006
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 131,045 ratings — published 2004
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 815,160 ratings — published 1998
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,017,300 ratings — published 2015
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.67 — 252,597 ratings — published 1984
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,487,391 ratings — published 2018
My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.60 — 200,187 ratings — published 2016
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.94 — 870,935 ratings — published 2009
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,759 ratings — published 1982
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.71 — 129,253 ratings — published 2013
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.75 — 65,740 ratings — published 2014
The Little Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.48 — 87,671 ratings — published 2002
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.02 — 838,447 ratings — published 2003
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 440,628 ratings — published 2005
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.62 — 107,221 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 665,720 ratings — published 1996
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,620,278 ratings — published 2003
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 98,259 ratings — published 2008
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,002,962 ratings — published 1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.20 — 797,138 ratings — published 1962
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,531,517 ratings — published 1969
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 247,663 ratings — published 1985
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 282,548 ratings — published 2008