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
- Banville, John, The Sea
- Barbeau, Melissa, The Luminous Sea
- Barnes, Julian, The Sense of an Ending
- Barry, Kevin, Beatlebone
- Baszile, Natalie, Queen Sugar
- Beatty, Paul, The Sellout
- Bhutto, Fatima, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
- Boyd, William, Sweet Caress
- Brookner, Anita, Strangers
- Brown, Eleanor, The Light of Paris, The Weird Sisters
- Brunt, Carol Rifka, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
- Bulawayo, NoViolet, We Need New Names
- 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
- Chee, Alexander, Edinburgh
- Cleave, Chris, Little Bee
- Cline, Emma, The Girls
- Cohen, Tamar, War of the Wives
- Crummey, Michael, Sweetland
- Cunningham, Michael, The Snow Queen
- Delacourt, Grégoire, My Wish List
- Díaz, Junot, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Donoghue, Emma, Akin, 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, The Sentence, Shadow Tag
- Evison, Jonathan, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
- Fagan, Jenni, The Panopticon
- 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
- Fuller, Claire, Bitter Orange, Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Unsettled Ground
- Galgut, Damon, In a Strange Room, The Promise
- Genova, Lisa, Every Note Played, Still Alice
- Gideon, Melanie, Wife 22
- Gifford, Elisabeth, The Sea House
- Godden, Rumer, Coromandel Sea Change
- 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
- Habila, Helon, Travelers
- Haddon, Mark, The Red House
- Hall, Sarah, Sudden Traveler, The Wolf Border
- 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
- Honarvar, Ari, A Girl Called Rumi
- Honeyman, Gail, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- 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, Memories of the Future
- Jackson, Mick, Yuki Chan in Brontë Country
- Jackson, Shirley, Hangsaman
- Jacobson, Howard, The Finkler Question
- Jelloun, Tahar Ben, The Happy Marriage
- Jewell, Lisa, The Family Upstairs, The House We Grew Up In
- Johnson, Daisy, Everything Under, Sisters
- 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
- July, Miranda, The First Bad Man
- Kadish, Rachel, The Weight of Ink
- Kay, I. J., Mountains of the Moon
- Keegan, Claire, Small Things Like These
- Kelly, Elizabeth, The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, The Miracle on Monhegan Island
- Kelman, Stephen, Pigeon English
- Kidd, Jess, The Hoarder (Mr. Flood’s Last Resort)
- Kinsella, W. P., Butterfly Winter
- King, Lily, Writers & Lovers
- Kingsolver, Barbara, Unsheltered
- Kitamura, Katie, A Separation
- Krauss, Nichole, The History of Love
- Kung, Han, The Vegetarian
- Kunzru, Hari, White Tears
- Kushner, Rachel, The Mars Room
- 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
- Lee, Andrea, Red Island House
- Lerner, Ben, Leaving the Atocha Station
- Levy, Deborah, Hot Milk, Swimming Home
- Lodato, Victor, Edgar & Lucy
- MacKinnon, Amy, Tethered
- Maine, Sarah, The House Between Tides
- Mandel, Emily St. John, The Glass Hotel
- Mantel, Hilary, Beyond Black, Fludd
- Markovits, Benjamin, You Don’t Have to Live Like This
- 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
- Miller, Sue, Monogamy
- Mitchell, David, Black Swan Green
- Morgan, C. E., The Sport of Kings
- Moore, Alison, The Lighthouse
- Moriarty, Liane, Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, What Alice Forgot
- Morton, Kate, The Clockmaker’s Daughter, The Lake House
- Moshfegh, Otessa, Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Mozley, Fiona, Elmet
- Munro, Alice, The Beggar Maid, Family Furnishings
- Murray, Morgan, Dirty Birds
- 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
- Norman, Howard, The Northern Lights
- North, Anna, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
- Obioma, Chigozie, The Fishermen
- Obreht, Téa, The Tiger’s Wife
- O’Brien, Edna, Girl, Wild Decembers
- O’Donnell, Lisa, Closed Doors, The Death of Bees
- O’Farrell, Maggie, The Distance Between Us, The Hand That First Held Mine, Instructions for a Heatwave, My Lover’s Lover, This Must Be the Place
- Orange, Tommy, There There
- Ozeki, Ruth, A Tale for the Time Being
- Packer, Ann, The Children’s Crusade
- Pagán, Camille, I’m Fine and Neither Are You
- Parssinen, Keija, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
- Patchett, Ann, Commonwealth, The Dutch House, State of Wonder
- Petterson, Per, I Curse the River of Time
- Powell, Padgett, You & Me
- Powers, Richard, Orfeo
- Quindlen, Anna, Alternate Side
- Rahman, Zia Haider, In the Light of What We Know
- Reid, Taylor Jenkins, Daisy Jones & The Six
- Riley, Gwendoline, First Love
- Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead, Home, Jack
- Rooney, Sally, Normal People
- Roy, Arundhati, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Ruskovich, Emily, Idaho
- Russell, Karen, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia!
- Russo, Richard, Bridge of Sighs, Chances Are, Empire Falls, Everybody’s Fool, Mohawk, Straight Man, That Old Cape Magic
- Ryan, Donal, The Spinning Heart
- Sahota, Sunjeev, The Year of the Runaways
- Sarton, May, The Magnificent Spinster
- Schimmelman, Peggy, Whippoorwills
- Semple, Maria, Today Will Be Different, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
- Shafak, Elif, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, The Bastard of Istanbul
- Shapiro, Dani, Black & White
- Shields, Carol, Happenstance
- Shipstead, Maggie, Astonish Me, Great Circle
- Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
- Sittenfeld, Curtis, Eligible
- Smiley, Jane, Golden Age, Horse Heaven, A Thousand Acres
- Smith, Ali, Autumn, Winter
- Smith, Zadie, NW, On Beauty
- Soffer, Jessica, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
- Soueif, Ahdaf, In the Eye of the Sun, 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, Oh William!, Olive, Again, Olive Kitteridge
- Stuart, Douglas, Shuggie Bain
- 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
- Thayil, Jeet, Narcopolis
- 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, The Amateur Marriage, Breathing Lessons, A Patchwork Planet, Redhead by the Side of the Road, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl
- Verghese, Abraham, Cutting for Stone
- Wallace, David Foster, The Broom of the System
- Williams, Niall, Four Letters of Love
- Wolitzer, Meg, The Interestings, The Wife
- Wyld, Evie, All the Birds, Singing, The Bass Rock
- Yahagihara, Hanya, A Little Life
- Zevin, Gabrielle, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
Postmodern and Experimental Literature
- Auster, Paul, 4321
- Burns, Anna, Milkman
- Catton, Eleanor, The Luminaries, 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)
- Ellmann, Lucy, Ducks, Newburyport
- Eugenides, Jeffrey, The Virgin Suicides
- Evaristo, Bernadine, Girl, Woman, Other
- Eyre, Hermione, Viper Wine
- Gilbert, David, & Sons
- Gunn, Kirsty, The Big Music
- Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master’s Son
- Krauss, Nicole, Great House
- Larsen, Reif, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
- Luiselli, Valeria, The Story of My Teeth
- McBride, Eimear, The Lesser Bohemians
- McCarthy, Tom, Satin Island
- McEwan, Ian, Atonement, Sweet Tooth
- Mitchell, David, Cloud Atlas, Ghostwritten, Number9Dream
- Murakami, Haruki, 1Q84
- Obioma, Chigozie, An Orchestra of Minorities
- 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
- Powers, Richard, The Overstory
- Saunders, George, Lincoln in the Bardo
- Self, Will, Umbrella
- Smith, Ali, How to Be Both, There but for the
- Thorpe, Adam, Hodd
- Tokarczuk, Olga, Flights
- Walbert, Kate, The Sunken Cathedral
- Walter, Jess, Beautiful Ruins
- Williams, Niall, History of the Rain
- Yanigihara, Hanya, The People in the Trees
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