Modern Fiction I Need to Read to Be Up to Date
Discover the must-read modern fiction books to stay current with today's literary trends. Explore top contemporary novels and essential reads for every book lover.
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Jim Giraffe
by Daren King
Scott Spectrum is being haunted by a ghost giraffe named Jim. Scott thinks he's a man how has everything -- a high-speed internet connection, alien-shaped …
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The Adventuress
by Audrey Niffenegger
The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Time Traveler's Wife" returns with the much-anticipated follow-up to "The Three Incestuous Sisters." This novel follows …
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The Icarus Girl
by Helen Oyeyemi
Jessamy "Jess" Harrison, a racially-mixed child, is growing up feeling that she is caught between two different worlds, until she is sent to visit relatives …
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On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, long-suffering art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into …
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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The …
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The Thin Place
by Kathryn Davis
In a thin place, according to legend, the membrane separating this world from the spirit world is almost nonexistent. The small New England town of …
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The Accidental
by Ali Smith
Talking her way into the Norfolk cottage that the Smart family is renting for the summer, Amber, an enigmatic con artist, insinuates herself into the …
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The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.