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
Non-Fiction
A Fine Balance
Memoir
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Contemporary Fiction
A Man Called Ove
Literary Fiction
A Personal Matter
Historical Fiction
A Thousand Ships
Literary Fiction
Acts of Desperation
Romance
After Hours on Milagro Street
Contemporary Fiction
Agnes Grey
Literary Fiction
All This Could Be Different
Young Adult
All the Bright Places
Young Adult
Along for the Ride
Literary Fiction
Americanah
Literary Fiction
Animal
Contemporary Fiction
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Contemporary Fiction
Anxious People
Young Adult
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Literary Fiction
Assembly
Literary Fiction
Asylum
Romance
Bared to You
Romance
Beach Read
Contemporary Fiction
Beartown
Romance
Beautiful Disaster
Literary Fiction
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Young Adult
Because of Mr. Terupt
Young Adult
Before I Die
Young Adult
Before I Fall
Romance
Before I Let Go
Literary Fiction
Before We Were Yours
Romance
Behind the Net
Contemporary Fiction
Behold the Dreamers
Young Adult
Better Than the Movies
Thriller
Big Little Lies
Literary Fiction
Black Buck
Young Adult
Black Swan Green
Literary Fiction
Bleak House
Romance
Blind Side
Romance
Book Lovers
Young Adult
Breathe and Count Back from Ten
Literary Fiction
Brideshead Revisited
Contemporary Fiction
Britt-Marie Was Here
Captive in the Dark
Romance
Captive in the Dark
Contemporary Fiction
Carrie Soto Is Back
Contemporary Fiction
Case Histories
Contemporary Fiction
Catalina
Contemporary Fiction
Caucasia
Young Adult
Challenger Deep
Literary Fiction
Chemistry
Non-Fiction
City of Thieves
Literary Fiction
Cleanness
Historical Fiction
Code Name Helene
Cold Girls
Young Adult
Cold Girls
Literary Fiction
Colored Television
Literary Fiction
Come and Get It
Romance
Corrupt
Literary Fiction
Counterfeit
Literary Fiction
Country Dark
Young Adult
Cut
Historical Fiction
Daisy Jones & The Six
Contemporary Fiction
David Copperfield
Literary Fiction
Days of Distraction
Literary Fiction
Death in Her Hands
Literary Fiction
Detransition, Baby
Fantasy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Romance
Done and Dusted
Literary Fiction
Dream Count
Dream State
Contemporary Fiction
Dream State
Literary Fiction
East of Eden
Contemporary Fiction
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Literary Fiction
Erasure
Young Adult
Every Last Word
Romance
Every Summer After
Contemporary Fiction
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Contemporary Fiction
Everything Is Illuminated
Romance
Everything for You
Literary Fiction
Faces in the Water
Young Adult
Faking Normal
Romance
Fallen
Young Adult
Fangirl
Literary Fiction
Fear of Flying
Young Adult
Fish in a Tree
Romance
Flawless
Literary Fiction
Fobbit
Young Adult
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Young Adult
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor
Romance
Funny Story
Young Adult
Gather
Literary Fiction
Geek Love
Literary Fiction
Ghosts
Young Adult
Girl in Pieces
Contemporary Fiction
Good Material
Literary Fiction
Gravity's Rainbow
Greenteeth
Fantasy
Greenteeth
Literary Fiction
Hangman
Romance
Happy Place
Literary Fiction
Heartwood
Contemporary Fiction
Hello Beautiful
Romance
Him
Literary Fiction
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Literary Fiction
House of Stone
Romance
How to End a Love Story
Young Adult
How to Make Friends with the Dark
Literary Fiction
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Will Crash
Literary Fiction
I Will Crash
Romance
Icebreaker
Young Adult
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Young Adult
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Young Adult
InvestiGators: Class Action
Romance
It Ends with Us
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Contemporary Fiction
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Romance
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
Romance
Just for the Summer
Historical Fiction
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Contemporary Fiction
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
Fantasy
Light From Uncommon Stars
Contemporary Fiction
Little Fires Everywhere
Romance
Long Shot
Romance
Lost and Lassoed
Contemporary Fiction
Madeline
Contemporary Fiction
Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Contemporary Fiction
Malibu Rising
Fantasy
Me Before You
Contemporary Fiction
Middlemarch
Romance
Mile High
Contemporary Fiction
Milton the Early Riser
Young Adult
Mockingbird
Romance
Morbidly Yours
Contemporary Fiction
Mrs Dalloway
Literary Fiction
My Dark Vanessa
Literary Fiction
My Government Means to Kill Me
Young Adult
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Young Adult
My Weird School: Miss Daisy Is Crazy!
Romance
Neanderthal Seeks Human
Romance
Nights in Rodanthe
No More Secrets
Romance
No More Secrets
Contemporary Fiction
Normal People
Fantasy
Of Mice and Men
Romance
Offside
Literary Fiction
Old Filth
Literary Fiction
Old God's Time
Literary Fiction
Olive, Again
Contemporary Fiction
On Beauty
Once Upon a River
Literary Fiction
Once Upon a River
Literary Fiction
Our Story Begins
Young Adult
Out of My Mind
Literary Fiction
Parade
Literary Fiction
Perfection
Literary Fiction
Pizza Girl
Literary Fiction
Problems
Contemporary Fiction
Purple Hibiscus
Young Adult
Rain Reign
Literary Fiction
Rat Bohemia
Romance
Red, White & Royal Blue
Contemporary Fiction
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Contemporary Fiction
Run Rose Run
Contemporary Fiction
Same Beach, Next Year
Literary Fiction
Same Bed Different Dreams
Contemporary Fiction
Sandwich
Young Adult
Save Me a Seat
Young Adult
Scars
Literary Fiction
Season of Migration to the North
Romance
Sense and Sensibility
Literary Fiction
Serena
Fantasy
Seven Days in June
Literary Fiction
She's Come Undone
Contemporary Fiction
Sipsworth
Literary Fiction
Sky Daddy
Comedy
Smile
Young Adult
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Someplace Like Home
Literary Fiction
Someplace Like Home
Young Adult
Speak
Young Adult
Star Wars: Jedi Academy
Young Adult
Stargirl
Young Adult
Stick Dog
Contemporary Fiction
Stoner
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Literary Fiction
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Contemporary Fiction
Such a Fun Age
Contemporary Fiction
Sula
Romance
Summer Island
Contemporary Fiction
Summer Sisters
Contemporary Fiction
Summers at the Saint
Contemporary Fiction
Surfside Sisters
Literary Fiction
Swing Time
Literary Fiction
Sympathy
Literary Fiction
Table for Two
Literary Fiction
Tampa
Literary Fiction
Temporary
Young Adult
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Contemporary Fiction
The Authenticity Project
Literary Fiction
The Bean Trees
Literary Fiction
The Bee Sting
Literary Fiction
The Berry Pickers
Romance
The Bridges of Madison County
The Bromance Book Club
Romance
The Bromance Book Club
Literary Fiction
The Buried Giant
Romance
The Burnout
Young Adult
The Cartoonists Club
Literary Fiction
The Children's Book
Non-Fiction
The Corrections
Romance
The Deal
Contemporary Fiction
The Deep End of the Ocean
Young Adult
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Literary Fiction
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Factory
Literary Fiction
The Factory
Contemporary Fiction
The Fault in Our Stars
Literary Fiction
The First Bad Man
Young Adult
The First to Die at the End
Contemporary Fiction
The Five-Star Weekend
Literary Fiction
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Glass Girl
Young Adult
The Glass Girl
Literary Fiction
The Go-Between
Historical Fiction
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Literary Fiction
The Guest
Contemporary Fiction
The Guncle
Fantasy
The Hands of the Emperor
Literary Fiction
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Contemporary Fiction
The Hate U Give
Romance
The Hating Game
Literary Fiction
The Hearing Trumpet
Literary Fiction
The Help
Contemporary Fiction
The Hole
Contemporary Fiction
The Hotel Nantucket
Literary Fiction
The Informers
Literary Fiction
The Joys of Motherhood
Contemporary Fiction
The Keeper of Lost Things
Romance
The Kiss Quotient
Non-Fiction
The Kitchen God's Wife
Contemporary Fiction
The Lido
Romance
The Long Game
Romance
The Love Hypothesis
Romance
The Lucky One
Young Adult
The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
Literary Fiction
The Marriage Plot
Literary Fiction
The Master
Contemporary Fiction
The Midnight Library
Contemporary Fiction
The Paper Palace
Contemporary Fiction
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Literary Fiction
The Petting Zoo
Literary Fiction
The Pisces
Literary Fiction
The Postcard
The Premonition
Literary Fiction
The Premonition
Romance
The Pumpkin Spice Café
Literary Fiction
The Rabbit Hutch
Contemporary Fiction
The Reading List
Contemporary Fiction
The Road to Tender Hearts
Literary Fiction
The Road to the Country
Literary Fiction
The Safekeep
Contemporary Fiction
The Secret Life of Bees
Literary Fiction
The Sense of an Ending
Romance
The Simple Wild
Literary Fiction
The Sisters Brothers
Young Adult
The Sky Is Everywhere
Romance
The Spanish Love Deception
Literary Fiction
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Young Adult
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Literary Fiction
The Summer Before the Dark
Young Adult
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Contemporary Fiction
The Summer Place
Contemporary Fiction
The Summer of Songbirds
Fantasy
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Non-Fiction
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Young Adult
The Terrible Two
Literary Fiction
The Three Musketeers
Romance
The Turn of the Screw
Literary Fiction
The Unconsoled
Romance
The Unhoneymooners
Contemporary Fiction
The Wedding People
Literary Fiction
The Wife
Contemporary Fiction
The Wishing Game
Young Adult
They Both Die at the End
Romance
This Could Be Us
Literary Fiction
To the Bright Edge of the World
Literary Fiction
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Young Adult
Turtles All the Way Down
Romance
Twice Shy
Romance
Twisted Love
Literary Fiction
Two Old Women
Romance
Ugly Love
Literary Fiction
Vladimir
Literary Fiction
Wellness
Literary Fiction
What I Loved
Contemporary Fiction
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Romance
Wildfire
Contemporary Fiction
Winter Garden
Young Adult
Wintergirls
Young Adult
Wonder
Romance
Wreck the Halls
Contemporary Fiction