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Contemporary Fiction Favs
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items From heartfelt dramas to thought-provoking page-turners, this section features contemporary novels that capture the complexities of modern life, love, and human connection. If you've read any of these books, too, I'd love to know what you thought. Le...
Set in present-day Mexico, American Dirt follows Lydia, a bookstore owner who flees Acapulco with her son after her journalist husband is murdered by a ruthless drug cartel, forcing them to embark on a harrowing journey as migrants toward the U.S. bo...
American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri is a poignant and immersive novel set in a near-future world where climate change and political unrest have forced people to survive in ways we can’t quite imagine. It follows the story of a woman named Nuri as she...
The Book of Fire: A Novel
This contemporary mystery-drama, set in modern-day London, follows Emma, a renowned obituary writer, whose carefully constructed life unravels when her husband discovers she has been lying about nearly everything—including her name. With lyrical pros...
The Love of My Life: A Novel
The Sentence is a contemporary literary novel set in Minneapolis, blending the supernatural with real-world events as a haunted bookstore employee navigates the aftermath of a crime and the turmoil of 2020. Erdrich’s signature lyrical prose and dark ...
The Sentence
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker is a crime fiction novel set in a small California coastal town during the present day, following the lives of a troubled sheriff, a convicted criminal, and a young girl seeking justice. With its lyrical prose, d...
We Begin at the End
The Wind Knows My Name is a contemporary novel with historical fiction elements, exploring the lives of two displaced children—one escaping Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and another fleeing violence in El Salvador in 2019—whose fates connect through ...
The Wind Knows My Name: A Novel
Yellowface is a contemporary literary satire set in present-day Washington, D.C., following the story of June Hayward, a struggling white author who steals the manuscript of her recently deceased, more successful Asian American friend—and publishes i...
Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick
