Contemporary Fiction

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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,117 members
660 reviews
4.1
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,292 members
650 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,648 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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4
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,480 members
483 reviews
4
3 Members
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,718 members
408 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
13,661 members
243 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,428 members
869 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
7,848 members
415 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
9,246 members
191 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Girls
by Emma Cline
4,140 members
261 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,788 members
667 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
11,904 members
435 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
2,154 members
98 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,775 members
228 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
6,882 members
409 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,428 members
429 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,369 members
438 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,372 members
276 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
12,590 members
189 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
28,722 members
539 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
13,134 members
276 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,572 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
3,742 members
105 reviews
3.1
2 Members
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
1,673 members
64 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Euphoria
by Lily King
3,118 members
174 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke
4,594 members
136 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
3,891 members
181 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,478 members
624 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson
4,455 members
300 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
24,076 members
969 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Other Hand
by Chris Cleave
9,164 members
550 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
6,184 members
128 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
10,397 members
442 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
8,013 members
203 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
7,506 members
205 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,366 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,228 members
657 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
by Elizabeth Strout
4,551 members
321 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
4,445 members
205 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
5,008 members
212 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
1,977 members
238 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
5,615 members
124 reviews
4
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Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
4,542 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
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Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
13,914 members
198 reviews
3.8
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
6,960 members
311 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
22,569 members
1,358 reviews
4
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,245 members
282 reviews
4.1
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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
9,829 members
180 reviews
3.9
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,598 members
343 reviews
4.2
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Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
8,814 members
381 reviews
3.8
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,597 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
7,969 members
140 reviews
3.8
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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
4,148 members
244 reviews
½ 3.5
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Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
9,458 members
758 reviews
3.8
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Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
4,533 members
201 reviews
4
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
4,635 members
228 reviews
4
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The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3,994 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
5,300 members
281 reviews
4.1
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The Wonder
by Emma Donoghue
2,739 members
172 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
18,163 members
403 reviews
4
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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,154 members
180 reviews
3.9
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News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
3,408 members
253 reviews
4.1
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63
Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
2,447 members
155 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Burning Girl
by Claire Messud
646 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Stedman
8,348 members
543 reviews
3.9
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Eileen
by Ottessa Moshfegh
2,797 members
127 reviews
½ 3.5
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
6,318 members
491 reviews
4
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Fourth of July Creek
by Smith Henderson
1,007 members
56 reviews
3.9
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,922 members
317 reviews
4.2
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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
1,361 members
66 reviews
½ 3.7
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
8,621 members
594 reviews
3.9
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Marlena
by Julie Buntin
637 members
44 reviews
3.8
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The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
14,595 members
411 reviews
½ 3.7
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,529 members
701 reviews
4
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,203 members
606 reviews
½ 4.4
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
11,461 members
607 reviews
4.1
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The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
9,246 members
576 reviews
3.8
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78
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
5,016 members
117 reviews
½ 3.6
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,882 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
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80
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
5,931 members
268 reviews
3.8
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81
The Children's Book
by A. S. Byatt
4,134 members
220 reviews
3.8
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82
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
12,177 members
398 reviews
4.1
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83
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
4,125 members
259 reviews
3.8
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84
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
2,993 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
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85
The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
3,420 members
214 reviews
½ 3.6
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86
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
3,724 members
163 reviews
4
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87
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
4,074 members
144 reviews
3.8
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88
The Orchardist
by Amanda Coplin
2,121 members
142 reviews
3.9
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89
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
9,200 members
346 reviews
4.1
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90
Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
4,491 members
251 reviews
3.8
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91
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,689 members
240 reviews
4
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92
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
3,542 members
117 reviews
3.9
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The Nix
by Nathan Hill
2,591 members
115 reviews
4
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94
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
1,352 members
98 reviews
3.9
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How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
1,953 members
60 reviews
3.8
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
4,982 members
284 reviews
3.9
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97
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
by Graeme Macrae Burnet
1,873 members
96 reviews
3.9
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98
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
2,374 members
107 reviews
3.8
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99
The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
3,217 members
169 reviews
½ 4.4
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100
How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig
3,978 members
162 reviews
3.8
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