This topic lists current fiction that does not belong within any of the listed genres. See more contemporary fiction under Literary Fiction. See the section below for postmodern or experimental fiction.
Contemporary Fiction
- Adébáyò, Ayòbámi, Stay With Me
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Americanah
- Aksyonov, Vassily, The New Sweet Style
- Alexis, André, Pastoral
- Alvarez, Julia, In the Time of the Butterflies
- Atwood, Margaret, Hag-Seed, Stone Mattress
- Backhaus, Bhira, Under the Lemon Trees
- Backman, Fredrik, A Man Called Ove
- Baker, Tiffany, Mercy Snow
- Bulawayo, NoViolet, We Need New Names
- Banville, John, The Sea
- Barnes, Julian, The Sense of an Ending
- Baszile, Natalie, Queen Sugar
- Beatty, Paul, The Sellout
- Bhutto, Fatima, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
- Boyd, William, Sweet Caress
- Brown, Eleanor, The Light of Paris, The Weird Sisters
- Brunt, Carol Rifka, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
- Butler, Robert Olen, Perfume River
- Campbell, Bonnie Jo, Once Upon a River
- Cannon, Joanna, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
- Chabon, Michael, Moonglow, Telegraph Avenue
- Cleave, Chris, Little Bee
- Cline, Emma, The Girls
- Crummey, Michael, Sweetland
- Cunningham, Michael, The Snow Queen
- Delacourt, Grégoire, My Wish List
- Díaz, Junot, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Donoghue, Emma, Room
- Drabble, Margaret, The Red Queen
- Dunmore, Helen, Exposure
- Edwards, Kim, The Memory-Keeper’s Daughter
- Eggers, Dave, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Ellis, Helen, American Housewife: Stories
- Enright, Anne, The Gathering
- Ephron, Delia, Siracusa
- Erdrich, Louise, LaRose, The Round House, Shadow Tag
- Evison, Jonathan, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
- Ferrante, Elena, My Brilliant Friend
- Ferris, Joshua, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
- Fielding, Helen, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy
- Fitch, Janet, White Oleander
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Fowler, Karen Joy, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Wit’s End
- Fox, Lauren, Days of Awe
- Fridlund, Emily, History of Wolves
- Galgut, Damon, In a Strange Room
- Genova, Lisa, Still Alice
- Gideon, Melanie, Wife 22
- Gifford, Elisabeth, The Sea House
- Goolrick, Robert, The Fall of Princes
- Gordimer, Nadine, The House Gun
- Green, John, The Fault in Our Stars
- Greenburg, Mike, My Father’s Wives
- Greenwell, Garth, What Belongs To You
- Greene, Thomas Christopher, The Headmaster’s Wife
- Greig, Andrew, The Return of John McNab, When They Lay Bare
- Groff, Lauren, Arcadia, Fates and Furies
- Haddon, Mark, The Red House
- Hand, Elizabeth, Wylding Hall
- Hannah, Kristin, Winter Garden
- Harbach, Chad, The Art of Fielding
- Harding, Paul, Enon
- Harris, Joanna, Chocolat, The Girl with No Shadow, Peaches for Father Francis
- Haruf, Kent, Benediction, Our Souls at Night
- Harvey, Samantha, Dear Thief
- Haupt, Jennifer, In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills
- Hayes, Antonia, Relativity
- Haynes, Melinda, Mother of Pearl
- Head, Bessie, When Rain Clouds Gather
- Healey, Emma, Elizabeth Is Missing
- Hemmings, Kaui Hart, The Descendants, The Possibilities
- Henderson, Smith, Fourth of July Creek
- Hosseini, Khaled, And the Mountains Echoed, A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Hulme, Keri, The Bone People
- Hulse, S. M., Black River
- Hustvedt, Siri, The Blazing World, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
- Jackson, Mick, Yuki Chan in Brontë Country
- Jackson, Shirley, Hangsaman
- Jacobson, Howard, The Finkler Question
- Jelloun, Tahar Ben, The Happy Marriage
- Jewell, Lisa, The House We Grew Up In
- Jones, Addison, Wait for Me, Jack
- Jones, Edward P., All Aunt Hagar’s Children
- Jones, Sadie, Fallout
- Jones, Tayari, An American Marriage
- Joyce, Rachel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- Kadish, Rachel, The Weight of Ink
- Kay, I. J., Mountains of the Moon
- Kelly, Elizabeth, The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, The Miracle on Monhegan Island
- Kelman, Stephen, Pigeon English
- Kinsella, W. P., Butterfly Winter
- Kingsolver, Barbara, Unsheltered
- Kitamura, Katie, A Separation
- Krauss, Nichole, The History of Love
- Kung, Han, The Vegetarian
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Lowland, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth
- Lamb, Wally, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True
- Landvik, Lorna, Once in a Blue Moon Lodge
- Lawson, Mary, Crow Lake
- Ledgard, J. M., Submergence
- Levy, Deborah, Hot Milk
- Lodato, Victor, Edgar & Lucy
- MacKinnon, Amy, Tethered
- Mantel, Hilary, Beyond Black, Fludd
- McCarthy, Susan Carol, A Place We Knew Well
- McDermid, Val, Northanger Abbey
- McEwan, Ian, Amsterdam, The Child in Time, Sweet Tooth
- McHugh, Laura, Arrowood
- McKeon, Belinda, Solace
- Milisic-Stanley, Annika, The Disobedient Wife
- Mitchell, David, Black Swan Green
- Morgan, C. E., The Sport of Kings
- Moriarty, Liane, Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, What Alice Forgot
- Morton, Kate, The Clockmaker’s Daughter
- Morton, Kate, The Lake House
- Moshfegh, Otessa, Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Munro, Alice, The Beggar Maid, Family Furnishings
- Napolitano, Ann, A Good Hard Look
- Naslund, Sena Jeter, The Fountain of St. James Court or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman
- Ness, Patrick, The Crane Wife
- Ng, Celeste, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere
- North, Anna, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
- Obreht, Téa, The Tiger’s Wife
- O’Donnell, Lisa, Closed Doors, The Death of Bees
- Orange, Tommy, There There
- Ozeki, Ruth, A Tale for the Time Being
- Packer, Ann, The Children’s Crusade
- Parssinen, Keija, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
- Patchett, Ann, Commonwealth, Ann, State of Wonder
- Petterson, Per, I Curse the River of Time
- Powers, Richard, Orfeo
- Rahman, Zia Haider, In the Light of What We Know
- Riley, Gwendoline, First Love
- Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead, Home
- Roy, Arundhati, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Russell, Karen, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia!
- Russo, Richard, Bridge of Sighs, Empire Falls, Everybody’s Fool, Straight Man, That Old Cape Magic
- Ryan, Donal, The Spinning Heart
- Sarton, May, The Magnificent Spinster
- Semple, Maria, Today Will Be Different, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
- Shafak, Elif, The Bastard of Istanbul
- Shapiro, Dani, Black & White
- Shields, Carol, Happenstance
- Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
- Sittenfeld, Curtis, Eligible
- Smiley, Jane, Golden Age, Horse Heaven, A Thousand Acres
- Smith, Ali, Autumn
- Smith, Zadie, NW, On Beauty
- Soffer, Jessica, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
- Soueif, Ahdaf, The Map of Love
- Starnone, Domenico, Ties
- Strout, Elizabeth, Abide with Me, Amy and Isabelle, Anything Is Possible, The Burgess Boys, My Name Is Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge
- Sunley, Christina, The Tricking of Freya
- Sweeney, Emma Claire, Owl Song at Dawn
- Szalay, David, All That Man Is
- Tartt, Donna, The Goldfinch, The Little Friend
- Thomas, Matthew, We Are Not Ourselves
- Toíbín, Colm, Nora Webster
- Torday, Paul, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Trapido, Barbara, Brother of the More Famous Jack, Juggling, Sex and Stravinsky, The Travelling Hornplayer
- Trollope, Joanna, The Best of Friends, The Other Family, Sense & Sensibility
- Tyler, Anne, A Spool of Blue Thread,Vinegar Girl
- Verghese, Abraham, Cutting for Stone
- Williams, Niall, Four Letters of Love
- Wolitzer, Meg, The Interestings, The Wife
- Wyld, Evie, All the Birds, Singing
- Yahagihara, Hanya, A Little Life
- Zevin, Gabrielle, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
Postmodern and Experimental Literature
- Catton, Eleanor, The Rehearsal
- Chaon, Dan, Await Your Reply
- Cunningham, Michael, The Hours
- Cusk, Rachel, Outline
- Eco, Umberto, The Prague Cemetery
- Egan, Jennifer, The Keep, Look At Me, A Visit from the Goon Squad (second review)
- Eugenides, Jeffrey, The Virgin Suicides
- Eyre, Hermione, Viper Wine
- Gilbert, David, & Sons
- Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master’s Son
- Krauss, Nicole, Great House
- Luiselli, Valeria, The Story of My Teeth
- McBride, Eimear, The Lesser Bohemians
- McEwan, Ian, Atonement, Sweet Tooth
- Mitchell, David, Cloud Atlas, Ghostwritten, Number9Dream
- Murakami, Haruki, 1Q84
- O’Brien, Tim, In the Lake of the Woods
- O’Farrell, Maggie, After You’d Gone
- Offill, Jenny, Dept. of Speculation
- Ondaatje, Michael, The Cat’s Table
- Saunders, George, Lincoln in the Bardo
- Smith, Ali, How to Be Both
- Thorpe, Adam, Hodd
- Walbert, Kate, The Sunken Cathedral
- Walter, Jess, Beautiful Ruins
- Williams, Niall, History of the Rain
- Yanigihara, Hanya, The People in the Trees
