My Favorite Contemporary Fiction
Discover my top picks for contemporary fiction books! Explore must-read novels, gripping stories, and beloved favorites in modern literature.
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A "A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book" (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and …
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Straight Man
by Richard Russo
Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the …
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The Brooklyn Follies
by Paul Auster
Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, …
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The Book of Joe
by Jonathan Tropper
Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a …
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All Families Are Psychotic
by Douglas Coupland
Sarah, the star of the latest Nasa shuttle mission, has an elegant mother, an ex-husband and three children. But three of them have AIDS, one …
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe : [a novel]
by Fannie Flagg
Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, …
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Before You Know Kindness
by Chris Bohjalian
For ten summers, the extended Seton family met at their country home in New Hampshire, but during the eleventh summer everything changed.
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Little Children
by Tom Perrotta
A group of young suburban parents, including a stay-at-home dad, a former feminist, and an over-structured mom, finds its sleepy existence shattered when a convicted …
