Contemporary Fiction

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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,018 members
660 reviews
4.1
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,092 members
643 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,632 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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4
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,422 members
481 reviews
4
3 Members
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,590 members
404 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
13,617 members
243 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,220 members
867 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
7,775 members
414 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
9,247 members
191 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Girls
by Emma Cline
4,126 members
259 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,717 members
663 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
11,746 members
432 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
2,147 members
98 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,766 members
228 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
6,867 members
406 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,347 members
428 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,167 members
433 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,336 members
275 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
12,557 members
188 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
28,600 members
539 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
13,048 members
273 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,566 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
3,732 members
105 reviews
3.1
2 Members
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
1,662 members
64 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Euphoria
by Lily King
3,096 members
173 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke
4,578 members
136 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
4,073 members
180 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,419 members
625 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson
4,436 members
300 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
23,871 members
960 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Other Hand
by Chris Cleave
9,161 members
548 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
6,164 members
127 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
10,365 members
442 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
7,974 members
203 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
7,514 members
204 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,351 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,176 members
653 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
by Elizabeth Strout
4,506 members
321 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
4,572 members
204 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
4,966 members
212 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
1,967 members
238 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
5,589 members
124 reviews
4
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Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
4,527 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
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Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
13,917 members
199 reviews
3.8
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
6,936 members
311 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
22,428 members
1,354 reviews
4
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,226 members
282 reviews
4.1
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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
9,773 members
176 reviews
3.9
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,518 members
343 reviews
4.2
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Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
8,765 members
378 reviews
3.8
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,562 members
565 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
7,946 members
139 reviews
3.8
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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
4,132 members
244 reviews
½ 3.5
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
by Robin Sloan
9,406 members
758 reviews
3.8
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Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
4,513 members
200 reviews
4
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
4,615 members
228 reviews
4
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The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3,973 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
5,269 members
280 reviews
4.1
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The Wonder
by Emma Donoghue
2,718 members
172 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
18,127 members
401 reviews
4
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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,098 members
180 reviews
3.9
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News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
3,416 members
254 reviews
4.1
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Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
2,427 members
154 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Burning Girl
by Claire Messud
641 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Stedman
8,380 members
541 reviews
3.9
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Eileen: A Novel
by Ottessa Moshfegh
2,767 members
129 reviews
½ 3.5
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
6,298 members
490 reviews
4
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Fourth of July Creek
by Smith Henderson
1,001 members
56 reviews
3.9
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,869 members
316 reviews
4.2
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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
1,352 members
66 reviews
3.8
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
8,657 members
591 reviews
3.9
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Marlena
by Julie Buntin
635 members
44 reviews
3.8
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The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
14,526 members
411 reviews
½ 3.7
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,457 members
698 reviews
4
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,085 members
601 reviews
½ 4.4
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
11,338 members
605 reviews
4.1
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The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
9,354 members
572 reviews
3.8
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78
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
5,002 members
118 reviews
½ 3.6
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79
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,813 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
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80
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
5,883 members
269 reviews
3.8
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81
The Children's Book
by A. S. Byatt
4,131 members
219 reviews
3.8
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82
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
11,921 members
397 reviews
4.1
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83
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
4,119 members
259 reviews
3.8
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84
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
2,983 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
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85
The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
3,409 members
214 reviews
½ 3.6
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86
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
3,700 members
163 reviews
4
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The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
4,045 members
144 reviews
3.8
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88
The Orchardist
by Amanda Coplin
2,118 members
142 reviews
3.9
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89
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
9,090 members
344 reviews
4.1
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90
Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
4,452 members
251 reviews
3.8
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91
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,856 members
240 reviews
4
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
3,504 members
118 reviews
3.9
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The Nix
by Nathan Hill
2,581 members
116 reviews
4
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94
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
1,347 members
98 reviews
3.9
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How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
1,930 members
60 reviews
3.8
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
4,929 members
283 reviews
3.9
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97
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
by Graeme Macrae Burnet
1,865 members
97 reviews
3.9
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98
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
2,369 members
107 reviews
3.8
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99
The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
3,168 members
170 reviews
½ 4.4
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100
How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig
3,929 members
161 reviews
3.8
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