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Contemporary Fiction
97 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Abby Jimenez: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Abby Jimenez — whether to begin with The Friend Zone, Part of Your World, or Life's Too Short. A complete reading guide to the contemporary romance author.
Where to Start with Ali Hazelwood: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ali Hazelwood — whether to begin with The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, or Check and Mate. A complete reading guide to the STEM romance novelist.
Where to Start with Ana Huang: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ana Huang — whether to begin with Twisted Love, Twisted Games, or Twisted Lies. A complete reading guide to the contemporary romance series author.
Where to Start with Aravind Adiga: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Aravind Adiga — whether to begin with The White Tiger, Last Man in Tower, or Amnesty. A complete reading guide to the Booker Prize-winning Indian novelist.
Where to Start with Beth O'Leary: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Beth O'Leary — how to approach The Flatshare, her contemporary romance built on an inventive premise of two strangers who share a flat but never meet. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Brit Bennett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Brit Bennett — whether to begin with The Vanishing Half or The Mothers. A complete reading guide to the American author.
Where to Start with Casey McQuiston: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Casey McQuiston — whether to begin with Red, White & Royal Blue or One Last Stop. A complete reading guide to the romance author.
Where to Start with Christina Lauren: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Christina Lauren — how to approach The Unhoneymooners, their most perfectly premised enemies-to-lovers vacation romance. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with David Nicholls: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Nicholls — whether to begin with One Day, Starter for Ten, or Us. A complete reading guide to the British novelist.
Where to Start with Gail Honeyman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gail Honeyman — how to approach Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, her essential debut novel. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jon Fosse: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jon Fosse — whether to begin with Morning and Evening, Septology, or A Shining. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist.
Where to Start with Joyce Carol Oates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Joyce Carol Oates — whether to begin with We Were the Mulvaneys, them, or Blonde. A complete reading guide to the American literary novelist.
Where to Start with Lauren Oliver: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Lauren Oliver — whether to begin with Before I Fall, Delirium, or Pandemonium. A complete reading guide to the YA novelist.
Where to Start with Laurie Halse Anderson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Laurie Halse Anderson — how to approach Speak, her debut novel and landmark of YA literature about a ninth-grader rendered mute by an assault she cannot yet name, written in a fragmented first-person voice that mirrors trauma with precision. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Percival Everett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Percival Everett — whether to begin with James, Erasure, or The Trees. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
Where to Start with Rina Kent: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rina Kent — whether to begin with Deviant King, Steel Princess, or God of Malice. A complete reading guide to the dark romance series author.
Where to Start with Samantha Harvey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Samantha Harvey — whether to begin with Orbital, The Western Wind, or Dear Thief. A complete reading guide to the Booker Prize-winning novelist.
Where to Start with Talia Hibbert: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Talia Hibbert — whether to begin with Get a Life Chloe Brown, Take a Hint Dani Brown, or Act Your Age Eve Brown. A complete reading guide.
Best Books About Family: Essential Reading List
The best books about family — from East of Eden and One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Corrections and Homegoing. Family novels that reveal how we are shaped by where we come from.
Best Books About Friendship: Essential Reading List
The best books about friendship — from A Little Life and The Kite Runner to My Brilliant Friend and Tuesdays with Morrie. Literature's most moving friendships.
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