Contemporary Fiction Ebooks

Contemporary fiction ebooks are often thoughtfully realistic modern stories that take place in the present day. Books in this category explore modern life and dissect some of the true-to-life tensions, drama, and challenges that come up in the quirks of everyday life. Check out some of the very best contemporary fiction books, award winners, and must-read list toppers below.

Contemporary fiction ebooks are often thoughtfully realistic modern stories that take place in the present day. Books in this category explore modern life and dissect some of the true-to-life tensions, drama, and challenges that come up in the quirks of everyday life. Check out some of the very best contemporary fiction books, award winners, and must-read list toppers below.

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Little Monsters
Little Monsters
Little Monsters
Little Monsters
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Little Monsters

byAdrienne Brodeur

A National Bestseller! “Juicy…simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open.” —The Washington Post * “So alluring…I raced happily through the pages.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Compulsively readable.” —Vogue * “An absolutely captivating read.” —Elin Hilderbrand From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets. Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings’ lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother’s goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he’s determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family—Steph, who doesn’t make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit. Set in the fraught summer of 2016, Little Monsters is a “smart, page-flipping novel…[with] shades of Succession” (The Boston Globe) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes.

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Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eighteen books, including Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, Good in Bed, and an essay collection, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing. A graduate of Princeton University and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Opinion section, Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia.

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Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eighteen books, including Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, Good in Bed, and an essay collection, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing. A graduate of Princeton University and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Opinion section, Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia.

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About Contemporary Fiction

Work, politics, relationships, and the struggles of the modern era. Contemporary fiction novels are a popular category, showing us that we tend to look to novelists to tell our stories and help us make sense of our age. 21st century readers are drawn to novels that capture the zeitgeist and make some sense of the world around us. The wide-ranging contemporary fiction ebook category features books that distil the unique questions of the modern era into relatable fiction, whether it’s climate change, globalization, the current pandemic, or the Internet. Some of the most widely read subcategories in contemporary fiction are Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, and Contemporary Women’s Fiction. Effective and persuasive contemporary fiction authors draw inspiration from the world around them and weave some of those complexities into compelling and thought-provoking stories. Some of the best contemporary fiction book writers include Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney, Louise Erdrich, Richard Powers, and Zadie Smith. If you want to gain a new perspective on the current world, you can do that via some of the best contemporary fiction ebooks. These bestselling contemporary books offer us new insights into our world from a fictional standpoint. Characters are everyday people confronting relatable problems that we all recognize and may have faced ourselves. Here are some of Everand’s current best contemporary fiction ebooks: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, and This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.

Work, politics, relationships, and the struggles of the modern era. Contemporary fiction novels are a popular category, showing us that we tend to look to novelists to tell our stories and help us make sense of our age. 21st century readers are drawn to novels that capture the zeitgeist and make some sense of the world around us. The wide-ranging contemporary fiction ebook category features books that distil the unique questions of the modern era into relatable fiction, whether it’s climate change, globalization, the current pandemic, or the Internet. Some of the most widely read subcategories in contemporary fiction are Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, and Contemporary Women’s Fiction. Effective and persuasive contemporary fiction authors draw inspiration from the world around them and weave some of those complexities into compelling and thought-provoking stories. Some of the best contemporary fiction book writers include Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney, Louise Erdrich, Richard Powers, and Zadie Smith. If you want to gain a new perspective on the current world, you can do that via some of the best contemporary fiction ebooks. These bestselling contemporary books offer us new insights into our world from a fictional standpoint. Characters are everyday people confronting relatable problems that we all recognize and may have faced ourselves. Here are some of Everand’s current best contemporary fiction ebooks: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, and This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.