Best Contemporary Literary Fiction - April 2024

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary H... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416532277
• ASIN: 1416532277
• ISBN: 9781416532279
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel

• ASIN: B0017SWPXY
• ASIN: B0017SWPXY
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

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 her... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0718084225
• ASIN: 0718084225
• ISBN: 0718084225
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Best Fake Fiancé

I told a judge I was engaged to my best friend.Now we’re faking it.How hard can it be?My life has room for exactly two women: my daughter Rusty and my best friend Charlotte — known to everyone as Charlie. One is a feisty, tomboyish firecracker. The other is my seven-year-old. I can’t imagine life without either.So when my ex springs a custody hearing on me, I find myself telling the judge that I’m engaged to Charlie.The only problem? I’m not. Time to fake an engagement.Pretending we’re a couple will be no big deal.We’ve been friends for years. We used to sneak cigarettes behind t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07WHLYYN1
• ASIN: B07WHLYYN1

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250153964
• ASIN: 1250153964
• ISBN: 9781250153968
• Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

Beloved (Vintage International)

• ASIN: B000TWUTYG
• ASIN: B000TWUTYG
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Secret Song of the Ditch Lilies

What if the one thing you wanted most was the one thing you could never have? What If you’d done something so terrible that you could never go back? Delia Reynolds has it all—money, social status, a husband who loves her. Then why is she so miserable? Why is she haunted by her past? Delia tries to mold her daughter, Sybil, into her debutante life, but it’s like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Needing a new life, Sybil flees the fast-paced life of Atlanta and takes her daughter to, of all places, Delia’s hometown, nearly sending Delia over the edge. Faced with the trauma o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07WDHK9V1
• ASIN: B07WDHK9V1
• Manufacturer: Arbor House 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

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: 1451645856
• UPC: 884740901625
• ASIN: 1451645856
• ISBN: 1451645856
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Where the Forest Meets the Stars

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.The girl calls hers... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503904911
• ASIN: 1503904911
• ISBN: 1503904911
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

The Dearly Beloved: A Novel

“A moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change.” —The New York Times “Here is the power of the novel in its simplest, richest for: bearing intimate witness to human beings grappling with their faith and falling in love. That Wall executes it so beautifully? Well, this is exactly why we read literary fiction…The best book about faith in recent memory.” —Entertainment Weekly (A-) “When I began reading The Dearly Beloved I braced for piety, worried it might be a book only a believer could appreciate. Instead, I found myself carried along by Cara ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07P5J6P57
• ASIN: B07P5J6P57
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970

Collects short stories from authors across the literary landscape

• ASIN: 0684857960
• ASIN: 0684857960
• ISBN: 9780684857961
• Brand: Brand: Touchstone
• Manufacturer: Touchstone

Brother's Best Friend: A Contemporary Romance Box Set

Second chance with my brother’s best friend? No way! A collection of five smokin’ hot brother’s best friends romances. All books in the box set are full length (80,000 words each), standalone, second chance romances.Best Friend’s Li’l Sis:I don’t care if she’s had kids since us – I’ve always wanted to be a dad.She’s my best friend’s li’l sis – we’ll figure that out.I’ve got money – but I can’t buy her.I was her first – she was mine.I want her to be my last.Just Another Chance: our attraction is instant, the chemistry undeniable and don’t even get me sta... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07WQPBCF4
• ASIN: B07WQPBCF4

Ask Again, Yes: A Novel

• ASIN: B07MNJ62D6
• ASIN: B07MNJ62D6
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

• ASIN: B004GHNEV0
• ASIN: B004GHNEV0
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Spectrum 25 : The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art

The premier showcase for imaginative fantastic

• UPC: 764982641

The Best of Black Heart 2014: Celebrating 10 Years of Short Fiction, Poetry, Author Interviews & More Indie Literary Mayhem - eBook

Born on the mean streets of Montreal, where one might just as well become a French-speaking hooker as write dirty little stories, Black Heart has been peddling its wares from atop wobbly stilettos straight from

• UPC: 566400579

No More Man: Who Needs a Man When You can Have Your Best Friend? - Contemporary Lesbian Erotica Short Story - eBook

I am in love with my best friend. However, I cannot tell her because she is in a relationship; an abusive relationship. I am always there for her due to the fact that she does

• UPC: 468708672

The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction

Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, this reference provides a fascinating portal into the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures. Arranged by region, country, and language, entries illuminate the

• UPC: 49367959
• Rating: 4.333

Review of Contemporary Fiction Spring 2003: Casebook Study of Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION SPRING

• UPC: 42884961

More Stories We Tell : The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women

The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name

• UPC: 25244352

Review of Contemporary Fiction : XXVII, #2: New Catalan Fiction

REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION FALL

• UPC: 8194066

Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction

Sixteen of Mexico s finest fiction writers born after 1945 are collected in this compelling bilingual anthology, offering a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction, from small-town dramas to tales of urban

• UPC: 10100634

Best Consumed in Contemporary Moonlight - eBook

Anything that was framed goes down with the falling frames. The content, significant up to the point of the fall, loses its relevance or even existence to the collapse of the frames. If, however, frames

• UPC: 349464030

The Review of Contemporary Fiction : New Catalan Fiction

The Review of Contemporary Fiction: New Catalan

• UPC: 10245261