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The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) (shelved 16 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 167,927 ratings — published 2003
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Kite Runner (Turtleback)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 16 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published 1999
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Paperback)
by Mark Haddon (shelved 12 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 115,076 ratings — published 2003
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The Lovely Bones (Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 10 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.67 — 172,896 ratings — published 2002
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Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides (shelved 10 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 122,985 ratings — published 2002
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Atonement (Paperback)
by Ian McEwan (shelved 9 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 53,471 ratings — published 2001
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Life of Pi (Mass Market Paperback)
by Yann Martel (shelved 9 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,883 ratings — published 2001
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The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by Sue Monk Kidd (shelved 9 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 184,009 ratings — published 2002
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The Road (Hardcover)
by Cormac McCarthy (shelved 9 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,042 ratings — published 2006
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The Hours (Paperback)
by Michael Cunningham (shelved 8 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,521 ratings — published 1998
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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) (shelved 8 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 153,916 ratings — published 1988
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The Handmaid's Tale (Paperback)
by Margaret Atwood (shelved 8 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 65,725 ratings — published 1985
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The Namesake (Paperback)
by Jhumpa Lahiri (shelved 8 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 44,155 ratings — published 2002
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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 7 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 112,541 ratings — published 2006
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by Michael Chabon (shelved 7 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 39,135 ratings — published 2000
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Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by Sara Gruen (shelved 7 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,809 ratings — published 2006
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Paperback)
by Kim Edwards (shelved 7 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.43 — 111,540 ratings — published 2005
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The God of Small Things (Hardcover)
by Arundhati Roy (shelved 7 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,228 ratings — published 1997
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Interpreter of Maladies (Paperback)
by Jhumpa Lahiri (shelved 7 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,782 ratings — published 1999
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The Shadow of the Wind (Paperback)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (shelved 6 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,397 ratings — published 2001
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She's Come Undone (Mass Market Paperback)
by Wally Lamb (shelved 6 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 46,050 ratings — published 1992
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Beloved (Paperback)
by Toni Morrison (shelved 6 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,105 ratings — published 1987
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White Teeth (Paperback)
by Zadie Smith (shelved 6 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 19,665 ratings — published 2001
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Bel Canto (Paperback)
by Ann Patchett (shelved 6 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,075 ratings — published 2001
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 6 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 123,745 ratings — published 1998
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by Jonathan Safran Foer (shelved 6 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,268 ratings — published 2005
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The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by Margaret Atwood (shelved 6 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,207 ratings — published 2000
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)
by Gregory Maguire (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.35 — 100,668 ratings — published 1995
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by Susanna Clarke (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 18,685 ratings — published 2004
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Three Junes (Paperback)
by Julia Glass (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,171 ratings — published 2002
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Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by David Mitchell (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,490 ratings — published 2004
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 114,787 ratings — published 1967
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jonathan Safran Foer (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 25,019 ratings — published 2002
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The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 81,293 ratings — published 1985
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 302,005 ratings — published 2000
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The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by Anita Diamant (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,616 ratings — published 1997
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by Dave Eggers (shelved 5 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.58 — 54,755 ratings — published 2000
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Nineteen Minutes (Hardcover)
by Jodi Picoult (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,740 ratings — published 2006
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The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by Toni Morrison (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,735 ratings — published 1969
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Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by Susanna Kaysen (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 10,206 ratings — published 1993
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by Dan Brown (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 137,529 ratings — published 2000
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Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by Kazuo Ishiguro (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 18,373 ratings — published 2005
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Choke (Paperback)
by Chuck Palahniuk (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 26,803 ratings — published 2001
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Midnight's Children (Paperback)
by Salman Rushdie (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,583 ratings — published 1980
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Fight Club: A Novel (Paperback)
by Chuck Palahniuk (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,177 ratings — published 1996
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 60,387 ratings — published 1985
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Wonder Boys (Paperback)
by Michael Chabon (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,184 ratings — published 1995
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Blindness (Paperback)
by José Saramago (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,717 ratings — published 1995
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The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,259 ratings — published 1993
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Lush Life: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Richard Price (shelved 4 times as contemporary-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 5,188 ratings — published 2008
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