Genre

Contemporary Fiction

Recent stories attentive to the strange pressure of ordinary life, leaving familiar rooms newly charged with possibility.

The best contemporary fiction books ever written, from We Need to Talk About Kevin to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Click a book you love and you’ll get three more like it — each with the reason why.

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Cover of We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver

Cover of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith

Cover of My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier

Cover of Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng

Cover of Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison

Cover of A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

A Place for Us Fatima Farheen Mirza

Cover of A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines

Cover of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler

Cover of The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead

The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead

The Green Road Anne Enright

Cover of Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

Imagine Me Gone Adam Haslett

Cover of The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth Jane Hamilton

Good Behaviour Molly Keane

Cover of A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett

A House and Its Head Ivy Compton-Burnett