Contemporary Fiction Books
Contemporary fiction is set in the present day and deals with the social, emotional, and political realities of modern life. These novels tend to prioritize character psychology and interpersonal relationships, often holding a mirror up to the world as it exists right now.
165 books
Literary Fiction
84, Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff
Non-Fiction
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Memoir
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
Contemporary Fiction
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
Literary Fiction
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oe
Historical Fiction
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
Contemporary Fiction
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte
Young Adult
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
Young Adult
Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
Literary Fiction
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Contemporary Fiction
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Literary Fiction
Asylum
Patrick McGrath
Romance
Bared to You
Sylvia Day
Romance
Beach Read
Emily Henry
Contemporary Fiction
Beartown
Fredrik Backman
Romance
Beautiful Disaster
Jamie McGuire
Literary Fiction
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
Young Adult
Because of Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea
Young Adult
Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver
Literary Fiction
Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
Romance
Behind the Net
Stephanie Archer
Young Adult
Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter
Thriller
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
Literary Fiction
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Romance
Blind Side
Kandi Steiner
Romance
Book Lovers
Emily Henry
Literary Fiction
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Captive in the Dark
Romance
Captive in the Dark
C.J. Roberts
Contemporary Fiction
Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Contemporary Fiction
Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
Contemporary Fiction
Caucasia
Danzy Senna
Non-Fiction
City of Thieves
David Benioff
Historical Fiction
Code Name Helene
Ariel Lawhon
Literary Fiction
Come and Get It
Kiley Reid
Romance
Corrupt
Penelope Douglas
Historical Fiction
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Contemporary Fiction
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
Fantasy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
Literary Fiction
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Contemporary Fiction
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Romance
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune
Contemporary Fiction
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily Austin
Contemporary Fiction
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Romance
Everything for You
Chloe Liese
Literary Fiction
Faces in the Water
Janet Frame
Romance
Fallen
V.C. Andrews
Young Adult
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
Young Adult
Fish in a Tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Literary Fiction
Fobbit
David Abrams
Young Adult
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor
Jon Scieszka
Romance
Funny Story
Emily Henry
Literary Fiction
Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
Young Adult
Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow
Literary Fiction
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Literary Fiction
Hangman
Maya Binyam
Romance
Happy Place
Emily Henry
Literary Fiction
Heartwood
Amity Gaige
Contemporary Fiction
Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano
Romance
Him
Sarina Bowen
Literary Fiction
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
Young Adult
How to Make Friends with the Dark
Kathleen Glasgow
Literary Fiction
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Joanne Greenberg
I Will Crash
Literary Fiction
I Will Crash
Rebecca Watson
Romance
Icebreaker
Hannah Grace
Young Adult
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling
Young Adult
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling
Young Adult
InvestiGators: Class Action
John Patrick Green
Romance
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
Fantasy
Light From Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
Contemporary Fiction
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Contemporary Fiction
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Fantasy
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
Contemporary Fiction
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Romance
Mile High
Liz Tomforde
Young Adult
Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine
Romance
Morbidly Yours
Ivy Fairbanks
Contemporary Fiction
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Young Adult
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga
Young Adult
My Weird School: Miss Daisy Is Crazy!
Dan Gutman
Contemporary Fiction
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Fantasy
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Romance
Offside
Avery Keelan
Literary Fiction
Old Filth
Jane Gardam
Old God's Time
Literary Fiction
Old God's Time
Sebastian Barry
Contemporary Fiction
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Young Adult
Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper
Contemporary Fiction
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Young Adult
Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin
Romance
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
Contemporary Fiction
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
Contemporary Fiction
Run Rose Run
Dolly Parton
Literary Fiction
Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park
Young Adult
Save Me a Seat
Sarah Weeks
Romance
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Fantasy
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
Comedy
Smile
Raina Telgemeier
Star Wars: Jedi Academy
Young Adult
Star Wars: Jedi Academy
Jeffrey Brown
Young Adult
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Young Adult
Stick Dog
Tom Watson
Contemporary Fiction
Stoner
John Williams
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Literary Fiction
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami
Contemporary Fiction
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Contemporary Fiction
Sula
Toni Morrison
Romance
Summer Island
Kristin Hannah
Contemporary Fiction
Summer Sisters
Judy Blume
Literary Fiction
Table for Two
Amor Towles
Literary Fiction
Tampa
Alissa Nutting
Literary Fiction
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
Literary Fiction
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
Literary Fiction
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
Romance
The Burnout
Sophie Kinsella
Young Adult
The Cartoonists Club
Raina Telgemeier
Non-Fiction
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Romance
The Deal
Elle Kennedy
Literary Fiction
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
The Factory
Literary Fiction
The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada
Contemporary Fiction
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
Literary Fiction
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Kristin Harmel
Literary Fiction
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley
Fantasy
The Hands of the Emperor
Victoria Goddard
Literary Fiction
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal
Contemporary Fiction
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Romance
The Hating Game
Sally Thorne
Literary Fiction
The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington
Literary Fiction
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Contemporary Fiction
The Hole
Hiroko Oyamada
Contemporary Fiction
The Hotel Nantucket
Elin Hilderbrand
Romance
The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
Non-Fiction
The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan
Romance
The Long Game
Rachel Reid
Romance
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
Literary Fiction
The Master
Colm Toibin
Contemporary Fiction
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Contemporary Fiction
The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller
Contemporary Fiction
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Literary Fiction
The Postcard
Anne Berest
The Premonition
Literary Fiction
The Premonition
Banana Yoshimoto
The Rabbit Hutch
Literary Fiction
The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
Contemporary Fiction
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Literary Fiction
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Literary Fiction
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Romance
The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Arcos
Young Adult
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger
Young Adult
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
Non-Fiction
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
Young Adult
The Terrible Two
Mac Barnett
Literary Fiction
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Romance
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Literary Fiction
The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro
Romance
The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren
Contemporary Fiction
The Wedding People
Alison Espach
Contemporary Fiction
The Wishing Game
Meg Shaffer
Literary Fiction
To the Bright Edge of the World
Eowyn Ivey
Literary Fiction
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Young Adult
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
Romance
Twisted Love
Ana Huang
Literary Fiction
Two Old Women
Velma Wallis
Romance
Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover
Contemporary Fiction
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Glendy Vanderah
Romance
Wildfire
Hannah Grace
Contemporary Fiction
Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah
Young Adult
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson
Young Adult
Wonder
R.J. Palacio
Contemporary Fiction
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
