Contemporary

Literature that largely takes place in the present time.

In Time with You
That's What Friends Are For
Celestial Lights
The Bridge Back to You
Ruins
A Latte Like Love
The Adjunct
If We Never End
Young World
The Fountain
Strange Girls
I Love You Don't Die
The Plans I Have for You
A Lie for a Lie
American Han
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  • The Night We Met (Say You'll Remember Me, #2)
    The Correspondent
    The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
    Theo of Golden
    Reminders of Him
    Heart the Lover
    The Love Hypothesis
    The Price of Honey
    Great Big Beautiful Life
    Funny Story
    Half His Age
    My Friends
    Lessons in Chemistry
    Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
    Ryder (Lucky River Ranch #5)
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    Archer's Voice by Mia SheridanMaybe Someday by Colleen HooverUgly Love by Colleen HooverPlay by Kylie ScottBeautiful Player by Christina Lauren
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    The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherLiving Fearless by Jamie Winship
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    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Edge of Never by J.A. RedmerskiEasy by Tammara WebberSlammed by Colleen HooverOn Dublin Street by Samantha Young
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    Looking for Alaska
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    To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
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