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.
288 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
Literary Fiction
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan
Romance
After Hours on Milagro Street
Angelina M. Lopez
Contemporary Fiction
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte
Literary Fiction
All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Young Adult
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
Young Adult
Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
Literary Fiction
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Literary Fiction
Animal
Lisa Taddeo
Contemporary Fiction
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xochitl Gonzalez
Contemporary Fiction
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Young Adult
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Literary Fiction
Assembly
Natasha Brown
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 Die
Jenny Downham
Young Adult
Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver
Romance
Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan
Literary Fiction
Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
Romance
Behind the Net
Stephanie Archer
Contemporary Fiction
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
Young Adult
Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter
Thriller
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
Literary Fiction
Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour
Young Adult
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
Literary Fiction
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Romance
Blind Side
Kandi Steiner
Romance
Book Lovers
Emily Henry
Young Adult
Breathe and Count Back from Ten
Natalia Sylvester
Literary Fiction
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Contemporary Fiction
Britt-Marie Was Here
Fredrik Backman
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
Catalina
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Contemporary Fiction
Caucasia
Danzy Senna
Young Adult
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman
Literary Fiction
Chemistry
Weike Wang
Non-Fiction
City of Thieves
David Benioff
Literary Fiction
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Historical Fiction
Code Name Helene
Ariel Lawhon
Cold Girls
Young Adult
Cold Girls
Maxine Rae
Literary Fiction
Colored Television
Danzy Senna
Literary Fiction
Come and Get It
Kiley Reid
Romance
Corrupt
Penelope Douglas
Literary Fiction
Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
Literary Fiction
Country Dark
Chris Offutt
Young Adult
Cut
Patricia McCormick
Historical Fiction
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Contemporary Fiction
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
Days of Distraction
Alexandra Chang
Literary Fiction
Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh
Literary Fiction
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
Fantasy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
Romance
Done and Dusted
Lyla Sage
Literary Fiction
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dream State
Contemporary Fiction
Dream State
Eric Puchner
Literary Fiction
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Contemporary Fiction
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Literary Fiction
Erasure
Percival Everett
Young Adult
Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone
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
Young Adult
Faking Normal
Courtney C. Stevens
Romance
Fallen
Lauren Kate
Young Adult
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
Literary Fiction
Fear of Flying
Erica Jong
Young Adult
Fish in a Tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Romance
Flawless
Elsie Silver
Literary Fiction
Fobbit
David Abrams
Young Adult
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Matthew Quick
Young Adult
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor
Jon Scieszka
Romance
Funny Story
Emily Henry
Young Adult
Gather
Kenneth M. Cadow
Literary Fiction
Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
Literary Fiction
Ghosts
Dolly Alderton
Young Adult
Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow
Contemporary Fiction
Good Material
Dolly Alderton
Literary Fiction
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Greenteeth
Fantasy
Greenteeth
Molly O'Neill
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
Literary Fiction
House of Stone
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Romance
How to End a Love Story
Yulin Kuang
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
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Contemporary Fiction
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Colleen Oakley
Romance
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
Christina Lauren
Romance
Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez
Historical Fiction
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Contemporary Fiction
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
Elyssa Friedland
Fantasy
Light From Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
Contemporary Fiction
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Romance
Long Shot
Kennedy Ryan
Romance
Lost and Lassoed
Lyla Sage
Contemporary Fiction
Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
Contemporary Fiction
Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Katie Yee
Contemporary Fiction
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Fantasy
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
Contemporary Fiction
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Romance
Mile High
Liz Tomforde
Contemporary Fiction
Milton the Early Riser
Robert Kraus
Young Adult
Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine
Romance
Morbidly Yours
Ivy Fairbanks
Contemporary Fiction
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Literary Fiction
My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell
Literary Fiction
My Government Means to Kill Me
Rasheed Newson
Young Adult
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga
Young Adult
My Weird School: Miss Daisy Is Crazy!
Dan Gutman
Romance
Neanderthal Seeks Human
Penny Reid
Romance
Nights in Rodanthe
Nicholas Sparks
No More Secrets
Romance
No More Secrets
Lucy Score
Contemporary Fiction
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Fantasy
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Romance
Offside
Avery Keelan
Literary Fiction
Old Filth
Jane Gardam
Literary Fiction
Old God's Time
Sebastian Barry
Literary Fiction
Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout
Contemporary Fiction
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Once Upon a River
Literary Fiction
Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Literary Fiction
Our Story Begins
Tobias Wolff
Young Adult
Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper
Literary Fiction
Parade
Rachel Cusk
Literary Fiction
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
Literary Fiction
Pizza Girl
Jean Kyoung Frazier
Literary Fiction
Problems
Jade Sharma
Contemporary Fiction
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Young Adult
Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin
Literary Fiction
Rat Bohemia
Sarah Schulman
Romance
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
Contemporary Fiction
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
Contemporary Fiction
Run Rose Run
Dolly Parton
Contemporary Fiction
Same Beach, Next Year
Dorothea Benton Frank
Literary Fiction
Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park
Contemporary Fiction
Sandwich
Catherine Newman
Young Adult
Save Me a Seat
Sarah Weeks
Young Adult
Scars
Cheryl Rainfield
Literary Fiction
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
Romance
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Literary Fiction
Serena
Ron Rash
Fantasy
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
Literary Fiction
She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb
Contemporary Fiction
Sipsworth
Simon Van Booy
Literary Fiction
Sky Daddy
Kate Folk
Comedy
Smile
Raina Telgemeier
Young Adult
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Peter Cameron
Someplace Like Home
Literary Fiction
Someplace Like Home
Bobi Conn
Young Adult
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
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
Contemporary Fiction
Summers at the Saint
Mary Kay Andrews
Contemporary Fiction
Surfside Sisters
Nancy Thayer
Literary Fiction
Swing Time
Zadie Smith
Literary Fiction
Sympathy
Olivia Sudjic
Literary Fiction
Table for Two
Amor Towles
Literary Fiction
Tampa
Alissa Nutting
Literary Fiction
Temporary
Hilary Leichter
Young Adult
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Contemporary Fiction
The Authenticity Project
Clare Pooley
Literary Fiction
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Literary Fiction
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
Literary Fiction
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
Romance
The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller
The Bromance Book Club
Romance
The Bromance Book Club
Lyssa Kay Adams
Literary Fiction
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
Romance
The Burnout
Sophie Kinsella
Young Adult
The Cartoonists Club
Raina Telgemeier
Literary Fiction
The Children's Book
A.S. Byatt
Non-Fiction
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Romance
The Deal
Elle Kennedy
Contemporary Fiction
The Deep End of the Ocean
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Young Adult
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E. Lockhart
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 First Bad Man
Miranda July
Young Adult
The First to Die at the End
Adam Silvera
Contemporary Fiction
The Five-Star Weekend
Elin Hilderbrand
Literary Fiction
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Kristin Harmel
The Glass Girl
Young Adult
The Glass Girl
Kathleen Glasgow
Literary Fiction
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley
Historical Fiction
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
Literary Fiction
The Guest
Emma Cline
Contemporary Fiction
The Guncle
Steven Rowley
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
Literary Fiction
The Informers
Bret Easton Ellis
Literary Fiction
The Joys of Motherhood
Buchi Emecheta
Contemporary Fiction
The Keeper of Lost Things
Ruth Hogan
Romance
The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
Non-Fiction
The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan
Contemporary Fiction
The Lido
Libby Page
Romance
The Long Game
Rachel Reid
Romance
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
Romance
The Lucky One
Nicholas Sparks
Young Adult
The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
Maya MacGregor
Literary Fiction
The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
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 Petting Zoo
Jim Carroll
Literary Fiction
The Pisces
Melissa Broder
Literary Fiction
The Postcard
Anne Berest
The Premonition
Literary Fiction
The Premonition
Banana Yoshimoto
Romance
The Pumpkin Spice Café
Laurie Gilmore
Literary Fiction
The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
Contemporary Fiction
The Reading List
Sara Nisha Adams
Contemporary Fiction
The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett
Literary Fiction
The Road to the Country
Chigozie Obioma
Literary Fiction
The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
Contemporary Fiction
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Literary Fiction
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Romance
The Simple Wild
K.A. Tucker
Literary Fiction
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Young Adult
The Sky Is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson
Romance
The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas
Literary Fiction
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski
Young Adult
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger
Literary Fiction
The Summer Before the Dark
Doris Lessing
Young Adult
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
Contemporary Fiction
The Summer Place
Jennifer Weiner
Contemporary Fiction
The Summer of Songbirds
Kristy Woodson Harvey
Fantasy
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Julie Leong
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
Literary Fiction
The Wife
Meg Wolitzer
Contemporary Fiction
The Wishing Game
Meg Shaffer
Young Adult
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
Romance
This Could Be Us
Kennedy Ryan
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
Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle
Romance
Twisted Love
Ana Huang
Literary Fiction
Two Old Women
Velma Wallis
Romance
Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover
Literary Fiction
Vladimir
Julia May Jonas
Literary Fiction
Wellness
Nathan Hill
Literary Fiction
What I Loved
Siri Hustvedt
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
Romance
Wreck the Halls
Tessa Bailey
Contemporary Fiction
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
