Contemporary Fiction

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Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,159 members
661 reviews
4.1
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,375 members
651 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,661 members
144 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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4
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,505 members
485 reviews
4
3 Members
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,723 members
407 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
13,641 members
243 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,505 members
869 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
7,880 members
416 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
9,254 members
191 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Girls
by Emma Cline
4,153 members
260 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,827 members
667 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
11,971 members
436 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
2,156 members
98 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,783 members
229 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
6,891 members
410 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,463 members
432 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,439 members
439 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,387 members
277 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
12,611 members
190 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
28,762 members
539 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
13,171 members
275 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,576 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
3,749 members
106 reviews
3.1
2 Members
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
1,679 members
64 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Euphoria
by Lily King
3,126 members
174 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke
4,597 members
136 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
3,913 members
183 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,502 members
624 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson
4,455 members
301 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
24,158 members
971 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Other Hand
by Chris Cleave
9,176 members
552 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
6,189 members
129 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
10,407 members
443 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
7,990 members
203 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
7,524 members
206 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,374 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,254 members
657 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
by Elizabeth Strout
4,570 members
321 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
4,472 members
205 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
5,025 members
212 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
1,978 members
238 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
5,616 members
124 reviews
4
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Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
4,547 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
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Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
13,934 members
198 reviews
3.8
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
6,964 members
312 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
22,623 members
1,358 reviews
4
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,267 members
282 reviews
4.1
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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
9,845 members
179 reviews
3.9
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,632 members
345 reviews
4.2
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Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
8,833 members
382 reviews
3.8
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,613 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
7,980 members
141 reviews
3.8
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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
4,155 members
244 reviews
½ 3.5
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Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
9,486 members
759 reviews
3.8
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Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
4,550 members
202 reviews
4
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
4,643 members
228 reviews
4
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The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4,006 members
89 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
5,318 members
281 reviews
4.1
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The Wonder
by Emma Donoghue
2,749 members
172 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
18,183 members
403 reviews
4
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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,181 members
182 reviews
3.9
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News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
3,417 members
253 reviews
4.1
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Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
2,451 members
156 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Burning Girl
by Claire Messud
647 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Stedman
8,381 members
542 reviews
3.9
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Eileen
by Ottessa Moshfegh
2,808 members
127 reviews
½ 3.5
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
6,329 members
492 reviews
4
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Fourth of July Creek
by Smith Henderson
1,008 members
56 reviews
3.9
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,938 members
317 reviews
4.2
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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
1,362 members
66 reviews
½ 3.7
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
8,628 members
594 reviews
3.9
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Marlena
by Julie Buntin
639 members
44 reviews
3.8
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The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
14,624 members
412 reviews
½ 3.7
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,565 members
704 reviews
4
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,263 members
608 reviews
½ 4.4
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
11,508 members
609 reviews
4.1
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The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
9,251 members
576 reviews
3.8
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The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
5,029 members
117 reviews
½ 3.6
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,908 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
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80
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
5,953 members
268 reviews
3.8
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81
The Children's Book
by A. S. Byatt
4,149 members
220 reviews
3.8
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A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
12,253 members
399 reviews
4.1
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
4,137 members
260 reviews
3.8
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Last Orders
by Graham Swift
2,999 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
3,430 members
214 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
3,729 members
163 reviews
4
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The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
4,082 members
145 reviews
3.8
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88
The Orchardist
by Amanda Coplin
2,130 members
142 reviews
3.9
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89
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
9,262 members
348 reviews
4.1
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90
Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
4,504 members
253 reviews
3.8
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91
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,690 members
241 reviews
4
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
3,552 members
118 reviews
3.9
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The Nix
by Nathan Hill
2,599 members
115 reviews
4
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Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
1,356 members
98 reviews
3.9
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How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
1,960 members
60 reviews
3.8
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
5,000 members
284 reviews
3.9
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
by Graeme Macrae Burnet
1,882 members
96 reviews
3.9
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98
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
2,380 members
108 reviews
3.8
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
3,237 members
169 reviews
½ 4.4
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100
How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig
4,002 members
162 reviews
3.8
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