Contemporary

Literature that largely takes place in the present time.

What Hunger
Loved One
If Not for My Baby
Dominion
Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About
The Island of Last Things
Moderation
Love at First Sighting
The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood and Boyfriends
If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You
Tantrum
The Build-a-Boyfriend Project
Atomic Hearts
Woven From Clay
Life, and Death, and Giants
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    Water Moon
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  • Sound Effects by L.J. Greene
    Sound Effects (Ripple Effects, #2)
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    Release date: Oct 10, 2016
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    Beyond the Blue Horizon (Moonlit Ridge, #4)
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  • The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
    The Wedding People
    Great Big Beautiful Life
    Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
    Funny Story
    Beach Read
    My Friends
    Yellowface
    Happy Place
    Reminders of Him
    Lessons in Chemistry
    Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    The River Is Waiting
    These Summer Storms
    The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodPeople We Meet on Vacation by Emily HenryThe Spanish Love Deception by Elena  ArmasThe Heart Principle by Helen  HoangThe Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
    2021 Contemporary Romance Releases
    333 books — 1,781 voters
    To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny HanIsla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie PerkinsWe Were Liars by E. LockhartSince You've Been Gone by Morgan MatsonWhat I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick
    2014 Contemporary YA
    263 books — 1,870 voters

    The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothAllegiant by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    What we've read so far in...2014
    9,373 books — 2,027 voters
    Murder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThose Empty Eyes by Charlie DonleaHidden Pictures by Jason RekulakTwenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
    Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction
    1,910 books — 1,331 voters

    Escaping Reality by Lisa Renee JonesThe 5th Wave by Rick YanceyReal by Katy EvansBranded by Abi KetnerThe Law of Attraction by N.M. Silber
    New Series (2013)
    1,023 books — 2,280 voters
    The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoLiving Fearless by Jamie WinshipThe Purpose Driven Life by Rick WarrenThe Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark ComerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    Inspiring Books
    4,559 books — 3,228 voters

    The Fault in Our Stars
    Fangirl
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    The Hate U Give
    Red, White & Royal Blue
    Normal People
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    Looking for Alaska
    To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
    Beach Read
    Eleanor & Park
    We Were Liars
    It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
    Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)
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