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160 past books matching Contemporary Fiction
A migrant’s daughter, a life of struggle, and an unrelenting ambition to escape.
A Garden of Earthly Delights
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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A migrant’s daughter, a life of struggle, and an unrelenting ambition to escape. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Clara Walpole fights to rise above her past, but the men in her life shape her future in ways she never expected. The first novel in Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet, this is a gripping tale of class, power, and survival.
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Born into a life of poverty and transience, Clara Walpole refuses to accept the bleak future laid out for her. The daughter of migrant farmworkers, she is determined to escape the cycle of violence and deprivation that consumed her mother. But independence comes at a cost, and Clara’s path is shaped by the men who enter her life—each offering love, stability, or power, yet demanding something in return.
From a brooding laborer to a wealthy landowner, and finally to the son who inherits her ambitions, Clara’s choices ripple across generations. Can she carve out the life she longs for, or will she be forever tethered to the past?
The first novel in Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet, A Garden of Earthly Delights is a masterful meditation on ambition, class, and survival.
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A father’s coma forces three estranged sisters to confront a past of pain, silence, and buried secrets.
Trail of Broken Wings
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A father’s coma forces three estranged sisters to confront a past of pain, silence, and buried secrets. A Goodreads Best Fiction Finalist and USA Today Bestseller, Trail of Broken Wings is a raw, unflinching look at family, trauma, and the power of truth. Gripping and emotional, this novel will stay with you long after the final page.
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A fractured family. A history too painful to forget. A reckoning that can no longer be avoided.
When Sonya’s father falls into a coma, she’s forced to return to the family she abandoned long ago. Unlike her, her sisters have stayed: Trisha, the perfect suburban mother, and Marin, the ambitious career woman. But beneath their carefully built lives lies a shared past of pain, violence, and silence—a past they’ve each buried in different ways.
As their father lingers between life and death, long-hidden secrets claw their way to the surface, forcing the sisters—and their mother—to face the truth they’ve spent a lifetime running from.
A Goodreads Best Fiction Finalist and USA Today Bestseller, Trail of Broken Wings is a powerful, haunting novel about shame, survival, and the courage to break free.
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A student dies in a violent uprising, but his story is only the beginning.
Human Acts
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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A student dies in a violent uprising, but his story is only the beginning. Through the voices of those left behind, Human Acts explores the lasting trauma of oppression and the search for justice. From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, this internationally acclaimed novel is a haunting and deeply moving portrait of resilience, memory, and the human cost of history.
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In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is killed. His death is just the beginning.
Through a series of interconnected chapters, Human Acts follows those left behind—Dong-ho’s grieving mother, his doomed best friend, an editor fighting against censorship, and prisoners haunted by trauma. Each voice tells a piece of a greater tragedy, capturing the echoes of brutality and the search for justice in a world eager to forget.
From Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Vegetarian, this internationally acclaimed novel is a profound meditation on loss, resilience, and the indelible mark of history. Unflinching yet poetic, Human Acts is an urgent and unforgettable masterpiece.
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A sharp, compassionate portrait of aging, friendship, and dignity, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is an exquisite novel perfect for fans of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Bowen.
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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At the Claremont Hotel, Mrs Palfrey settles into a quiet existence among a cast of eccentric fellow residents—until she meets Ludo, a struggling writer who becomes her unexpected companion. A sharp, compassionate portrait of aging, friendship, and dignity, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is an exquisite novel perfect for fans of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Bowen.
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Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel on a rainy January afternoon, a recently widowed woman seeking quiet companionship in her final years. Among the hotel's eccentric long-term residents, she finds gossip, genteel loneliness, and a shared determination to keep old age at bay.
Then she meets Ludo, a struggling young writer who offers something unexpected—friendship. As their bond deepens, he finds inspiration in her world, weaving her life into the pages of his novel. But what begins as an unlikely connection soon raises questions about truth, dignity, and the quiet resilience of those society too often forgets.
A sharp, witty, and deeply compassionate novel, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is a masterpiece of character and observation, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Bowen and Jane Austen.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark academia, psychological suspense, intellectual obsession, and morally compromised characters.
The Secret History
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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The Secret History is an international bestseller called “absolutely chilling” by Village Voice. Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of students at an elite New England college pursue ideas that gradually lead them beyond ordinary morality and into obsession, corruption, betrayal, and murder. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark academia, psychological suspense, intellectual obsession, and morally compromised characters.
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times
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Smart, witty, and unforgettable—perfect for fans of literary romance!
Foreign Affairs
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Contemporary Romance
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A brilliant Ivy League professor meets an unlikely match on a London-bound flight. A dashing academic finds himself entangled with England’s most glamorous actress. As these two unexpected romances unfold, love takes surprising turns in Alison Lurie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Foreign Affairs. Smart, witty, and unforgettable—perfect for fans of literary romance!
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Vinnie Miner is a sharp-witted Ivy League professor accustomed to being overlooked—until an unlikely seatmate on a London-bound flight shakes up her world. Chuck Mumpson, a rawhide-tie-wearing sanitary engineer from Oklahoma, is everything Vinnie never imagined she’d be drawn to. But as their paths cross in unexpected ways, she begins to question what she truly wants.
Meanwhile, Vinnie’s dashing colleague, Fred Turner, is also in London, nursing a bruised ego after a failed marriage. When he’s swept into the glamorous orbit of a high-profile British actress, his life transforms in ways he never saw coming.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Foreign Affairs is a brilliant, witty, and unexpectedl
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A strong match for readers who like reflective coming-of-age fiction about family, resilience, and unlikely friendships.
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Sam Hill, born with red pupils and bullied as “Sam Hell,” looks back on a life shaped by faith, friendship, tragedy, and the long road toward seeing what truly matters, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 107,600 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like reflective coming-of-age fiction about family, resilience, and unlikely friendships.
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Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, “a novel that, if it doesn’t cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border.”
Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother’s devout faith, his father’s practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends.
Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls.
Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design—especially not the tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he’d always known. Running from the pain, eyes closed, served little purpose. Now, as he looks back on his life, Sam embarks on a journey that will take him halfway around the world. This time, his eyes are wide open—bringing into clear view what changed him, defined him, and made him so afraid, until he can finally see what truly matters.
Winner of Suspense Magazine’s Crimson Scribe Award.
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In The Remains of the Day, Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro paints a poignant portrait of Stevens, a devoted butler reflecting on decades of service at Darlington Hall.
The Remains of the Day
Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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In The Remains of the Day, Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro paints a poignant portrait of Stevens, a devoted butler reflecting on decades of service at Darlington Hall. As his memories unfold, Stevens must confront unsettling truths about loyalty, duty, and the life he sacrificed. A timeless classic from a Nobel Prize-winning author.
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro
In The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro delivers an intricate and profoundly moving portrait of duty, regret, and self-deception in post-World War II England.
Stevens, a perfect English butler, has dedicated over three decades of his life to service at Darlington Hall. As he embarks on a quiet country drive, he begins to reflect on his years under the "great gentleman" Lord Darlington, convinced that his loyalty and devotion served a noble cause. But as his memories unravel, Stevens is forced to confront troubling questions about Lord Darlington’s true character—and the sacrifices he made for a life of unquestioning duty.
The Remains of the Day is a masterful exploration of identity, dignity, and the haunting weight of missed opportunities.
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Told in the defiant voice of Miss July, The Long Song follows a slave girl’s life on a Jamaican sugar plantation during the violent end of slavery.
The Long Song
Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Told in the defiant voice of Miss July, The Long Song follows a slave girl’s life on a Jamaican sugar plantation during the violent end of slavery. Both shocking and humorous, this Man Booker Prize finalist is a powerful story of resilience and survival. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize • New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Told in the sharp, defiant voice of Miss July, The Long Song is an unforgettable tale of survival, resilience, and the end of slavery in 1830s Jamaica. Born to a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July’s life takes an unexpected turn when Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, an English widow, moves her into the great house and renames her “Marguerite.”
As July navigates life in the great house, she witnesses the brutal Baptist War and the chaotic, violent collapse of slavery. Her story, edited years later by her son Thomas, is by turns funny, shocking, and profoundly moving.
Andrea Levy’s The Long Song is a powerful, brilliantly written novel that offers a fresh, intimate perspective on a pivotal moment in history.
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A strong match for readers drawn to multigenerational historical fiction about family, displacement, slavery, and its lasting legacy.
Homegoing
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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An international bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, this novel begins with two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana: one marries an Englishman while the other is captured and sold into slavery. Their descendants’ stories unfold across eight generations, two continents, and three centuries. A strong match for readers drawn to multigenerational historical fiction about family, displacement, slavery, and its lasting legacy.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
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When Apollo Kagwa’s wife commits a horrific act and vanishes with their child, his search plunges him into a dark fairy tale rooted in myth, madness, and love.
The Changeling
Horror · Literary Fiction · Thriller · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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When Apollo Kagwa’s wife commits a horrific act and vanishes with their child, his search plunges him into a dark fairy tale rooted in myth, madness, and love. The Changeling, now an Apple TV+ series, is an award-winning, haunting thriller “you won’t be able to put down” (Oprah Magazine).
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Now an Apple TV+ Series starring Lakeith Stanfield · Winner of multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel · One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
When Apollo Kagwa’s father vanished, he left behind only a box of books and haunting dreams. Now a father himself, Apollo’s life unravels when his wife, Emma, begins acting strangely. What seems like postpartum depression quickly spirals into horror as Emma commits an unthinkable act—and disappears with their child.
Apollo’s desperate search for his family leads him through the shadowy corners of New York, a forgotten island, and forests where immigrant legends still breathe. Along the way, he confronts ancient myths, buried secrets, and the terrifying truth about his family.
The Changeling is a mesmerizing dark fairy tale of love, loss, and madness, hailed by The New York Times and Oprah Magazine as a must-read modern classic.
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Old: Maddie Clarke returns to Martha’s Vineyard to settle the estate of her late grandmother, only to uncover family secrets and a Native American heritage she never knew…
Up Island Harbor
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Maddie Clarke returns to Martha’s Vineyard to settle the estate of her late grandmother, only to uncover family secrets and a Native American heritage she never knew existed. On the island’s rugged beauty, Maddie reconnects with her roots, her people, and the possibility of love in this heartwarming tale of self-discovery and second chances.
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A Cottage, a Legacy, and a Journey Home. Maddie Clarke plans a quick trip to Martha’s Vineyard to settle her grandmother’s estate, but the historic cottage she inherits has other ideas. As she unearths family secrets and discovers her Native American heritage, Maddie’s life is forever changed. Jean Stone’s Up Island Harbor is a heartfelt tale of family, community, and second chances, set against a stunning coastal backdrop.
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She’s returning to a home she didn’t know she had…
Maddie Clarke barely remembers her childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy’s gray-shingled cottage on Martha’s Vineyard. Now divorced and raising her teenage son, Maddie’s life takes an unexpected turn when she learns that her grandmother didn’t pass away years ago, as she believed, but only recently—and left her the historic Menemsha cottage.
Planning a quick trip to settle the estate and sell the property, Maddie arrives on the Vineyard only to uncover long-buried family secrets, including a Native American heritage she never knew existed. As she reconnects with her roots and the beauty of Menemsha, Maddie begins to imagine a new future—one filled with community, self-discovery, and the possibility of love.
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