Contemporary

Literature that largely takes place in the present time.

Love by the Book
The Radiant Dark
I Could Give You the Moon
Last Night in Brooklyn
Stranger Things Have Happened
The Insomniacs
Chasing the Clouds Away
Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead
Dear Monica Lewinsky
Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block
Fruit Fly: A Novel
Boring Asian Female
A Murder Most Camp
Trouble's Turn to Lose (Carolina Tales, #3)
The Take
  • You Can't Hurry Second Chances by Michelle Stimpson
    You Can't Hurry Second Chances: A Novel
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    Release date: May 05, 2026
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  • Summer Husband by Amy Lorowitz
    Summer Husband: A Novel

    Release date: May 19, 2026
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  • This Could All Go Bad by Spencer  Hall
    This Could All Go Bad
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    Release date: May 19, 2026
    It's no secret that Jensen Chapman is a coward. He's scared of skateboarding down Clay's Mill Hill, dodgeball day in gym class, talking to his crush L ...more
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  • The Correspondent
    The Night We Met (Say You'll Remember Me, #2)
    Theo of Golden
    The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
    Heart the Lover
    Reminders of Him
    The Love Hypothesis
    Mad Mabel
    Great Big Beautiful Life
    My Friends
    Funny Story
    Half His Age
    Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
    Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
    Happy Place
    The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Martian by Andy WeirWe Were Liars by E. Lockhart
    What we've read so far in...2015
    9,751 books — 2,139 voters
    My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelSuch a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
    Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
    604 books — 1,263 voters

    The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLiving Fearless by Jamie Winship
    Inspiring Books
    4,858 books — 3,684 voters
    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Edge of Never by J.A. RedmerskiEasy by Tammara WebberSlammed by Colleen HooverOn Dublin Street by Samantha Young
    New Adult Contemporary
    985 books — 2,046 voters


    The Fault in Our Stars
    Fangirl
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    The Hate U Give
    Normal People
    Red, White & Royal Blue
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    Looking for Alaska
    Beach Read
    To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
    Eleanor & Park
    We Were Liars
    It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
    The Love Hypothesis
    Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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