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Modern Fiction Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,502,274 ratings — published 2003
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,756,260 ratings — published 2001
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,600,135 ratings — published 2003
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 208 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,528,419 ratings — published 2003
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,454,175 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,433,972 ratings — published 1985
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,456,221 ratings — published 2012
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,040,430 ratings — published 2006
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,035,218 ratings — published 1992
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,474,201 ratings — published 2020
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 161 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,887,108 ratings — published 2005
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 160 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,641,946 ratings — published 2018
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 159 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,859,285 ratings — published 2003
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,402,747 ratings — published 2000
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,218,153 ratings — published 2012
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,464,458 ratings — published 2002
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,741,331 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,112,999 ratings — published 1997
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,027,551 ratings — published 2009
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,043,488 ratings — published 2013
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,583,342 ratings — published 1988
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 858,277 ratings — published 2005
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,316,364 ratings — published 2017
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 664,244 ratings — published 2002
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 794,917 ratings — published 1998
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,430,274 ratings — published 2017
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,983,191 ratings — published 2014
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,876,532 ratings — published 2018
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,475 ratings — published 2001
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,941,213 ratings — published 2008
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,363,314 ratings — published 2022
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,121,844 ratings — published 2017
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,446,155 ratings — published 1997
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 991,861 ratings — published 2001
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,297,831 ratings — published 2015
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,354,515 ratings — published 2001
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,152 ratings — published 1989
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,902,677 ratings — published 1951
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,024,409 ratings — published 1996
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 108 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 836,318 ratings — published 2010
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,737,333 ratings — published 2012
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 550,434 ratings — published 2002
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,703,242 ratings — published 2006
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 268,341 ratings — published 2004
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 933,655 ratings — published 2015
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 732,407 ratings — published 1987
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,486,415 ratings — published 1969
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 644,570 ratings — published 1996
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,904,509 ratings — published 1960
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as modern-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 361,580 ratings — published 1989
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He was really surprised - his favorite drink is actually 7UP. But he complimented me for getting the color of the can right.”
― Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
― Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”
― Selected Essays
― Selected Essays












