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Contemporary Fiction Books
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1199 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,454,571 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1134 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,919,929 ratings — published 2018
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1130 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,329,445 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1122 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,241,023 ratings — published 2012
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 997 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,611,898 ratings — published 2003
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 963 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,788,056 ratings — published 2012
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 955 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,404,218 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 922 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,087,861 ratings — published 2023
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 921 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,057,476 ratings — published 2013
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 907 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,542,330 ratings — published 2020
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 903 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,539,741 ratings — published 2003
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 878 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 838,909 ratings — published 2019
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 859 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,351,283 ratings — published 2022
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 852 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,224,963 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 798 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,066,783 ratings — published 1992
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 725 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,473,345 ratings — published 2002
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 724 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,491,734 ratings — published 2012
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 724 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 603,671 ratings — published 2012
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 722 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,767,057 ratings — published 2001
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 715 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 842,129 ratings — published 2010
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 713 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,028,899 ratings — published 1999
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 709 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 626,054 ratings — published 2016
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 705 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,820,656 ratings — published 2012
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 688 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 582,284 ratings — published 2019
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 684 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 961,279 ratings — published 2015
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 668 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,195,882 ratings — published 2024
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 638 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,025,016 ratings — published 2017
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 627 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,697,212 ratings — published 2018
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 626 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 366,084 ratings — published 2014
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 621 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,867,293 ratings — published 2003
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
by (shelved 613 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,129,796 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 609 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 878,270 ratings — published 2005
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,282,803 ratings — published 2004
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 591 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 600,359 ratings — published 2013
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 585 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,480,937 ratings — published 2005
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 579 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 617,773 ratings — published 2014
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 576 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 418,490 ratings — published 2013
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 573 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,768,010 ratings — published 2007
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 559 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,894,107 ratings — published 2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 554 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.60 — 586,035 ratings — published 2018
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 549 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 553,830 ratings — published 2013
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 545 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,330,298 ratings — published 2015
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 528 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 667,317 ratings — published 2002
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 523 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 388,413 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 504 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 869,004 ratings — published 2020
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 501 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 391,138 ratings — published 2018
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 495 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,548,392 ratings — published 2003
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 490 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,318,286 ratings — published 2021
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 485 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 437,266 ratings — published 2005
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 479 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 615,381 ratings — published 2017
“The moment-when I could no longer face myself in the mirror-wasn't easily explained; nor was the oppressive misery I experienced once I finally became the person I was meant to be but then realized with terrific horror how much I still hated her.”
― The Choice Not Taken
― The Choice Not Taken
“I got gold in one hand and mud in the other.......In the end it's the same for all of us we go out the same way we came in ....alone”
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