Best Contemporary Fiction 2019 - May 2024

The Woman I Was Before: A gripping emotional page turner with a twist

‘For fans of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty, this book is an intense page-turner… a book that you won't be able to put down until the very last page. It’s awesome, read it!’ Our Grand LifeA new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or a hiding place...Of all the emotions single mother Kate Jones feels as she walks into her brand new house on Parkview Road, hope is the most unexpected. She has changed her name and her daughter’s, and moved across the country to escape the single mistake that destroyed their lives.Kate isn’t the only woman on the street starting afresh. Warm... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07M5SND5Z
• ASIN: B07M5SND5Z
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

My Sister's Lies: A gripping and heartbreaking story of love, loss and dark family secrets for 2019

The USA Today and Kindle Top #25 Bestseller‘A real tear-jerker’ THE SUN‘A stunning read’ MIRANDA DICKINSONFor a decade, Hannah’s life has been pretty close to perfect – she has a great job, she’s married to Mark, and her child-free existence means she’s free as a bird. The only sadness in her life is a fall-out with her sister Diane, who hasn’t spoken to her in over ten years. But now Diane is on her doorstep – and this time, she’s got her teenage daughter Mia in tow.When Diane asks if Mia can stay with Hannah and Mark for a few days, Hannah is glad of the chance to get t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H64F568
• ASIN: B07H64F568
• Manufacturer: Avon

The Night Fire (A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel Book 2)

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him---new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man.Bos... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NL757ZF
• ASIN: B07NL757ZF
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Then She Was Gone: A Novel

A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won’t see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted.” —Booklist, starred review “Sharply written with twists and turns, Jewell’s latest will please fans of Gon... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074MDD3H6
• ASIN: B074MDD3H6
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

For Once in My Life: An absolutely perfect laugh out loud romantic comedy

‘Feel-good, funny, uplifting… Will make you laugh out loud and leave you smiling from ear to ear.’ NetGalley ReviewerTwenty-nine-year-old Lily Buckley planned to be happily married and in her dream job by now. Instead she’s been single since being left at the altar three years ago, and works at her local paper, writing about giant vegetables at the village fete and a dog who looks exactly like Chewbacca.Not quite what she was dreaming of.So when Lily’s given the opportunity to write her own column it’s exactly what she’s always wanted – except what she has to write about. She h... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1786814951
• ASIN: 1786814951
• ISBN: 1786814951
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!

"It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you."Dan Brown, Author of ReunionIt's 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world.Everybody loves her.In 2012, she's still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers.Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GVN38FX
• ASIN: B07GVN38FX
• Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie

The Hideaway

In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating it—no small task considering h... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01HAK33TC
• ASIN: B01HAK33TC
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Best European Fiction 2019

Now in its tenth year, Best European Fiction continues to be an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. This year’s anthology brings together some of the most exciting prose writing in Europe today, by writers such as Alberto Olmos, Lars Petter Sveen, Xabier López López, Teolinda Gersão, and Ádám Bodor. Ranging from the firmly well-established to rising young writers never before translated into English, the stories of Best European Fiction 2019 are bound to provoke and delight.

• ASIN: 1628972866
• ASIN: 1628972866
• ISBN: 1628972866
• Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press

Sara's Game: A Psychological Thriller (The Sara Winthrop Series Book 1)

She's never played a game like this before...Two years ago, Sara's husband left for the gym one morning...and never came back.His car was found. He wasn't.Unbelievably, the police report said, "No foul play suspected." There were a few unreliable sightings over the following months, but little else.Now, on the last day before summer break, her three children have gone missing from their schools, all at the same time.And the note under her windshield wiper asks one cryptic question: Are you ready to play the game?Reader Note - Sara's Game: A Psychological Thriller is a USA Today best seller, wa... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009FBK5CI
• ASIN: B009FBK5CI
• Manufacturer: JCL Publishing Psychological Thrillers

When Never Comes

An Amazon Charts most-read and most-sold book.Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair—and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred. For a while, she found a safe haven in her marriage to bestselling crime novelist Stephen Ludlow—until his car skidded into Echo Bay. But Stephen’s wasn’t the only body pulled from the icy waters that night. When details about a mysterious violet-eyed blo... [Read More]

• ASIN: B073XJDDLJ
• ASIN: B073XJDDLJ
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

The Silent Patient

• ASIN: B07D2C6J4K
• ASIN: B07D2C6J4K
• Manufacturer: Celadon Books

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

• ASIN: B01N4VW75U
• ASIN: B01N4VW75U
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316055441
• ASIN: 0316055441
• ISBN: 0316055441
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Ordinary Grace: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the so... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008J2G5Y6
• ASIN: B008J2G5Y6
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller“Poignant, engrossing.”—People • “Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation’s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.”—Paula McLain Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wren... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01M14UN1J
• ASIN: B01M14UN1J
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short

• UPC: 497261548

Writer, M.D. : The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

With contributions from such physician-writers as Oliver Sacks, Abraham Verghese, and Pauline Chen, this is a unique and eye-opening collection of fiction and nonfiction on medicine and mortality and everything in

• UPC: 16528078
• Rating: 4.0

Spectrum 25 : The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art

The premier showcase for imaginative fantastic

• UPC: 764982641

The Pushcart Prize XLIII : Best of the Small Presses 2019 Edition

"More good poems, essays and stories are found in these presses than any other place on the planet." Richard

• UPC: 420842519

Uncensored: Volume Two (Code Red #1) (Contemporary New Adult Billionaire Romance, Series 2019, US, UK, CA, AU, IN, DE) - eBook

The strangest, most bizarrely incapacitating pause stretches on as I stand before my new employer.Christ on a bike...He's even more striking than I remember, the pictures Peyton showed me doing him no justice whatsoever.I think

• UPC: 842263709

The Best American Poetry 2019

The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry--"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since

• UPC: 368810733

Uncensored: Volume Three (Code Red #1) (Contemporary New Adult Office Romance, Series 2019, US, UK, CA, AU, IN, DE) - eBook

I come to stand in front of the landmark, glass entrance in the secluded area; the final barrier between me and the owner of the office beyond it.Between reality and what has to be some

• UPC: 890954127

Barbara Kingsolver: Best Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist - Updated 2019 - eBook

BARBARA KINGSOLVER BOOKS CHECKLIST IN ORDER WITH SUMMARIES INCLUDING THE GREER FAMILY NOVELSSUMMARIES, CHECKLIST AND ORDERING INFORMATION FOR ALL BARBARA KINGSOLVER NOVELS - UPDATED 2019Don’t miss a single Barbara Kingsolver novel.Here we have story summaries,

• UPC: 690002924

Probably the Best Kiss in the World: The laugh out loud romantic comedy of 2019! - eBook

‘Such a fresh, funny romance! … Reminded me a lot of a Sophie Kinsella book’ Kaitlyn, Goodreads ‘One of my favourite books of the year…it wasn’t difficult to fall for the fine specimen of Nordic

• UPC: 955819152

Best of Terror 2019 - eBook

The following recommendations are the best 15% of 1900 horror and horror-adjacent movies reviewed by Steve Hutchison. Movies are sorted according to the average of various ratings: overall, story, creativity, acting, quality, and rewatchability. How

• UPC: 363657054