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160 past books matching Contemporary Fiction
A warm, atmospheric fit for readers drawn to multigenerational historical fiction, magical realism, and family sagas.
The Murmur of Bees
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
Our take
Set during the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, The Murmur of Bees follows the Morales family after they adopt Simonopio, a mysterious abandoned child found covered in bees, with a 4.2-star average from more than 54,000 Goodreads ratings. A warm, atmospheric fit for readers drawn to multigenerational historical fiction, magical realism, and family sagas.
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From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution.
From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can—visions of all that’s yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats—both human and those of nature—Simonopio’s purpose in Linares will, in time, be divined.
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.
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A family’s history spreads across generations like roots, carrying damage, guilt, and the stubborn instinct to survive.
Greenwood
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
Our take
A family’s history spreads across generations like roots, carrying damage, guilt, and the stubborn instinct to survive. In Greenwood, Michael Christie traces one lineage through environmental collapse, inherited wealth, buried crime, and fractured love, building a literary saga where forests and family history feel inseparable. It fits readers looking for sweeping multigenerational fiction with emotional weight, structural ambition, and a strong ecological undercurrent.
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A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • “A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie’s] shape-shifting narrative. . . . Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.”—The New York Times Book Review
It’s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world’s last remaining forests. It’s 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It’s 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father’s once vast and violent timber empire. It’s 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple-syrup camp squat, when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades.
And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie’s effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood, and blood—and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.
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Michael, lost after his wife leaves, and Marnie, stuck after a bitter divorce, are forced together on a ten-day hike.
You Are Here
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Michael, lost after his wife leaves, and Marnie, stuck after a bitter divorce, are forced together on a ten-day hike. What begins as the worst idea turns into an unexpected journey toward healing, self-discovery, and maybe even a second chance at happiness.
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Michael is lost, wandering the English countryside after his wife leaves, avoiding the emptiness of his life. Marnie is stuck, hiding in her London flat, recovering from a bitter divorce and a life that feels stagnant.
When an insistent friend and unexpected weather push them together for a ten-day hike, neither could imagine anything worse. But with each step, they realize they might be finding what they’ve been missing all along.
As they navigate this life-changing journey, both Michael and Marnie stand on the edge of a new beginning—if they can survive the trip.
Will this chance encounter help them find the way back to themselves and to each other?
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Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway has earned 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon and swept the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards.
Every Heart a Doorway
Fantasy · Contemporary Fiction · Portal Fantasy
Our take
Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway has earned 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon and swept the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. In this haunting portal fantasy, children who once crossed into magical worlds now struggle to belong in the ordinary one. But when darkness creeps into their sanctuary, the question becomes who is safe and who isn’t.
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Some doors open only once.
At Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, lost travelers gather. Children who found other worlds and were sent back. Fairyland, underworlds, places of darkness and light. Now they’re stuck in the ordinary, longing for a return they may never find.
Nancy remembers her world of stillness and shadows. But her return to reality comes with questions, and when a body turns up at the school, her longing for home becomes tangled with fear.
Surrounded by others who carry their own strange scars, Nancy must unravel a mystery where fantasy and reality blur, and belonging feels like a distant dream.
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, Every Heart a Doorway is a dark, lyrical portal fantasy about where we go and what we leave behind.
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