Contemporary Fiction

May 16, 2024
165 Books
Stats

Position	Details	Rating
#102	Falling Man Don DeLillo	3.09
#104	An Untamed State Roxane Gay	4.38
#105	This Is How You Lose Her Junot Díaz	3.76
#106	Finn Jon Clinch	3
#107	The English Patient Michael Ondaatje	3.65
#108	Sprengstoff Stephen King Richard Bachman	3.24
#109	Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury	3.88
#110	The Neon Bible The Neon Bible John Kennedy Toole	2.67
#111	Song of Solomon Toni Morrison	4.3
#112	Wind/Pinball: Two Novels Haruki Murakami Ted Goossen (Translator)	3.56
#113	The Laughing Monsters Denis Johnson	3
#114	Trigger Warning Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances Neil Gaiman	3.86
#115	Slade House David Mitchell	3.88
#116	Snuff Chuck Palahniuk	3.23
#117	The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje	3.72
#118	Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan	3.71
#119	Come Along With Me Shirley Jackson	0
#120	Divisadero Michael Ondaatje	3.2
#121	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	3.78
#122	My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.06
#123	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.97
#124	Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs	3.05
#125	Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman	4.02
#126	Witchita Stories Troy James Weaver	5
#128	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.1
#129	Marigold Troy James Weaver	5
#130	Visions Troy James Weaver	5
#131	The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides	3.77
#132	Ready Player One Ernest Cline	3.93
#133	The Serpent King Jeff Zentner	4
#134	The Sun Is Also a Star Nicola Yoon	3.97
#135	The Wrath and the Dawn Renée Ahdieh	3.73
#136	Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy	4.12
#137	Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders	3.94
#138	The Girls Emma Cline	3.46
#139	Girl with Curious Hair David Foster Wallace	3.42
#140	Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh	3.65
#141	A Dark Matter Peter Straub	2.5
#142	The Book of Ghost Stories M.R. James	0
#143	The Invincible Stanisław Lem Wendayne Ackerman (Translator)	3.78
#144	American histories John Edgar Wideman	0
#145	Riot Walter Dean Myers	0
#146	Memento Mori Muriel Spark	3.6
#147	CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders	4.05
#148	The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin	3.75
#149	A Humument Tom Phillips	2.5
#150	Small Great Things Jodi Picoult	4.06
#151	Vox Nicholson Baker	3.93
#152	If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino William Weaver (Translator)	4.11
#153	Her Body And Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.83
#154	White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.93
#155	McGlue Ottessa Moshfegh Gioia Guerzoni (translator)	3.44
#156	Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh	3.61
#157	My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh	3.75
#158	The Cipher Kathe Koja	3.41
#159	Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh	3.34
#160	A Confederate General from Big Sur Richard Brautigan	4.25
#161	Stoner John Williams	4.5
#162	The Abortion Richard Brautigan	4
#163	Tuskaloosa Kills Abraham Smith Scott McWaters	0
#164	The year of the storm John Mantooth	0
#165	The Orchard Keeper Cormac McCarthy	3.17
#166	Geek Love Katherine Dunn	3.73
#167	If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin	4.3
#168	Stories of the Eye Sam Richard A.G.A. Wilmot	0

Position	Details	Rating
#102	Falling Man Don DeLillo	3.09
#104	An Untamed State Roxane Gay	4.38
#105	This Is How You Lose Her Junot Díaz	3.76
#106	Finn Jon Clinch	3
#107	The English Patient Michael Ondaatje	3.65
#108	Sprengstoff Stephen King Richard Bachman	3.24
#109	Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury	3.88
#110	The Neon Bible The Neon Bible John Kennedy Toole	2.67
#111	Song of Solomon Toni Morrison	4.3
#112	Wind/Pinball: Two Novels Haruki Murakami Ted Goossen (Translator)	3.56
#113	The Laughing Monsters Denis Johnson	3
#114	Trigger Warning Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances Neil Gaiman	3.86
#115	Slade House David Mitchell	3.88
#116	Snuff Chuck Palahniuk	3.23
#117	The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje	3.72
#118	Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan	3.71
#119	Come Along With Me Shirley Jackson	0
#120	Divisadero Michael Ondaatje	3.2
#121	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	3.78
#122	My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.06
#123	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.97
#124	Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs	3.05
#125	Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman	4.02
#126	Witchita Stories Troy James Weaver	5
#128	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.1
#129	Marigold Troy James Weaver	5
#130	Visions Troy James Weaver	5
#131	The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides	3.77
#132	Ready Player One Ernest Cline	3.93
#133	The Serpent King Jeff Zentner	4
#134	The Sun Is Also a Star Nicola Yoon	3.97
#135	The Wrath and the Dawn Renée Ahdieh	3.73
#136	Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy	4.12
#137	Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders	3.94
#138	The Girls Emma Cline	3.46
#139	Girl with Curious Hair David Foster Wallace	3.42
#140	Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh	3.65
#141	A Dark Matter Peter Straub	2.5
#142	The Book of Ghost Stories M.R. James	0
#143	The Invincible Stanisław Lem Wendayne Ackerman (Translator)	3.78
#144	American histories John Edgar Wideman	0
#145	Riot Walter Dean Myers	0
#146	Memento Mori Muriel Spark	3.6
#147	CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders	4.05
#148	The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin	3.75
#149	A Humument Tom Phillips	2.5
#150	Small Great Things Jodi Picoult	4.06
#151	Vox Nicholson Baker	3.93
#152	If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino William Weaver (Translator)	4.11
#153	Her Body And Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.83
#154	White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.93
#155	McGlue Ottessa Moshfegh Gioia Guerzoni (translator)	3.44
#156	Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh	3.61
#157	My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh	3.75
#158	The Cipher Kathe Koja	3.41
#159	Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh	3.34
#160	A Confederate General from Big Sur Richard Brautigan	4.25
#161	Stoner John Williams	4.5
#162	The Abortion Richard Brautigan	4
#163	Tuskaloosa Kills Abraham Smith Scott McWaters	0
#164	The year of the storm John Mantooth	0
#165	The Orchard Keeper Cormac McCarthy	3.17
#166	Geek Love Katherine Dunn	3.73
#167	If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin	4.3
#168	Stories of the Eye Sam Richard A.G.A. Wilmot	0

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