446 books
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587 voters
Contemporary Fiction Books
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1184 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,403,167 ratings — published 2017
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1110 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,300,016 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1086 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,192,287 ratings — published 2012
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1076 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,821,919 ratings — published 2018
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 981 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,584,536 ratings — published 2003
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 952 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,654,957 ratings — published 2012
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 909 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,027,937 ratings — published 2013
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 908 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,314,028 ratings — published 2022
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 900 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,452,265 ratings — published 2003
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 868 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,382,562 ratings — published 2020
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 862 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 981,702 ratings — published 2023
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 836 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 783,471 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 819 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,981,144 ratings — published 2017
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 783 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,163,180 ratings — published 2022
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 748 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 996,300 ratings — published 1992
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 721 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,406,365 ratings — published 2012
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 721 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 596,600 ratings — published 2012
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 713 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,452,420 ratings — published 2002
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,741,807 ratings — published 2001
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 709 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 830,968 ratings — published 2010
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 701 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,783,627 ratings — published 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 693 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,977,264 ratings — published 1999
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 678 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 574,231 ratings — published 2016
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 670 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 572,214 ratings — published 2019
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 650 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 899,938 ratings — published 2015
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 621 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,851,661 ratings — published 2003
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 615 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,557,162 ratings — published 2018
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 613 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 353,601 ratings — published 2014
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 613 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,000,274 ratings — published 2017
Big Little Lies (Paperback)
by (shelved 606 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,105,290 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 600 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 837,522 ratings — published 2005
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 587 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 590,534 ratings — published 2013
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,270,255 ratings — published 2004
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 583 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,417,049 ratings — published 2005
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 579 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 408,355 ratings — published 2013
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 575 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 606,245 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 571 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,713,117 ratings — published 2007
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 553 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 909,787 ratings — published 2024
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 540 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,250,416 ratings — published 2015
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 538 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,819,641 ratings — published 2019
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 538 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 543,456 ratings — published 2013
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 529 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 660,972 ratings — published 2002
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 527 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.60 — 548,260 ratings — published 2018
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 504 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 363,261 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 494 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 845,960 ratings — published 2020
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 493 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 383,315 ratings — published 2018
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 490 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,503,039 ratings — published 2003
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 433,826 ratings — published 2005
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 474 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,992,449 ratings — published 2009
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 472 times as contemporary-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,267,402 ratings — published 2021
“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
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― EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...
(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)”
― EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
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