Contemporary Fiction

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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
26,329 members
618 reviews
4.1
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
18,431 members
514 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
5,950 members
136 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
12,751 members
443 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
18,830 members
348 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
12,245 members
222 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
13,614 members
764 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
5,722 members
357 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,553 members
183 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Girls
by Emma Cline
3,083 members
240 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
25,249 members
612 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
7,738 members
351 reviews
4
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The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
1,936 members
93 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,418 members
217 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
5,905 members
383 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
18,248 members
403 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
14,283 members
357 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
13,041 members
245 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
11,190 members
169 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
25,340 members
494 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
11,337 members
250 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,276 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
3,437 members
103 reviews
3.1
2 Members
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
1,298 members
56 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Euphoria
by Lily King
2,429 members
144 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke
4,046 members
122 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
3,024 members
165 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
7,785 members
571 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson
3,741 members
274 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
16,326 members
817 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Other Hand
by Chris Cleave
8,109 members
515 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,590 members
117 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
9,244 members
408 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
7,194 members
185 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
6,712 members
187 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
3,409 members
199 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
9,468 members
603 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
by Elizabeth Strout
3,384 members
269 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
3,307 members
183 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
3,541 members
189 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
1,623 members
216 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
5,005 members
116 reviews
4
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Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
4,130 members
71 reviews
½ 3.6
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Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
12,499 members
189 reviews
3.8
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
6,430 members
301 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
16,706 members
1,216 reviews
4.1
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Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
11,622 members
255 reviews
4.1
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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
8,796 members
155 reviews
3.9
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Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
7,828 members
336 reviews
3.8
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,069 members
285 reviews
4.2
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
9,019 members
520 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
7,167 members
128 reviews
3.8
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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
3,457 members
224 reviews
½ 3.5
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Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
7,863 members
693 reviews
3.8
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Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
3,562 members
172 reviews
4
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
3,695 members
219 reviews
4
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The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3,378 members
76 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
4,055 members
239 reviews
4.1
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The Wonder
by Emma Donoghue
2,097 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
16,407 members
389 reviews
4
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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
3,456 members
140 reviews
3.9
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News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
2,606 members
216 reviews
4.2
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Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
1,873 members
135 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Burning Girl
by Claire Messud
516 members
35 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Stedman
6,896 members
491 reviews
3.9
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Eileen
by Ottessa Moshfegh
1,703 members
96 reviews
½ 3.5
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
5,703 members
447 reviews
4
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Fourth of July Creek
by Smith Henderson
881 members
53 reviews
3.9
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6,487 members
291 reviews
4.1
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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
1,029 members
58 reviews
3.8
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
7,260 members
520 reviews
3.9
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Marlena
by Julie Buntin
523 members
43 reviews
3.8
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The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
12,926 members
389 reviews
½ 3.7
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
12,755 members
636 reviews
4
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
7,849 members
476 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
7,852 members
518 reviews
3.8
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
7,657 members
484 reviews
4.1
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The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
4,449 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
7,088 members
343 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
4,693 members
234 reviews
3.8
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The Children's Book
by A. S. Byatt
3,695 members
208 reviews
3.8
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A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
6,000 members
296 reviews
4.1
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
3,497 members
234 reviews
3.8
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Last Orders
by Graham Swift
2,698 members
41 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
2,896 members
202 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
2,928 members
144 reviews
4
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The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
2,989 members
123 reviews
3.8
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The Orchardist
by Amanda Coplin
1,824 members
140 reviews
3.8
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89
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
5,451 members
264 reviews
4.1
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Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
3,288 members
209 reviews
3.8
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Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,203 members
219 reviews
4
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
2,607 members
103 reviews
3.9
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The Nix
by Nathan Hill
1,977 members
99 reviews
4.1
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Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
1,197 members
96 reviews
4
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How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
1,477 members
46 reviews
3.8
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
3,521 members
249 reviews
3.9
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
by Graeme Macrae Burnet
1,485 members
83 reviews
3.9
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98
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
1,786 members
89 reviews
3.8
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
2,007 members
143 reviews
½ 4.4
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100
How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig
2,270 members
120 reviews
3.8
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