Contemporary Literature

September 28, 2024
189 Books
Stats

Position	Details	Rating
#2	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Reg Keeland (Translator)	4.06
#3	Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk	4.06
#4	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer	3.96
#5	In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin	3.5
#6	High Fidelity Nick Hornby	3.9
#7	A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini	4.29
#8	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver	4.08
#9	2666 Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer (Translator)	3.87
#10	Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer	3.87
#11	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon	4.22
#12	The Corrections Jonathan Franzen	3.92
#13	Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.22
#14	Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.17
#15	No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy	4.07
#16	Atonement Ian McEwan	3.89
#17	Life of Pi Yann Martel	3.79
#18	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon	3.8
#19	Hyperion Dan Simmons	4.27
#20	Snow Crash Neal Stephenson	3.93
#21	More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon	3.72
#22	The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid	3.62
#23	The Shell Collector Anthony Doerr	4
#24	Ishmael Daniel Quinn	3.98
#25	Geek Love Katherine Dunn	3.73
#26	The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett	3.74
#27	Platform Michel Houellebecq Frank Wynne	3.81
#28	Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	3.95
#30	Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann	4.26
#31	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.14
#32	The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.05
#33	Girl Boy Etc Michael Weinreb	1
#34	The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	4.15
#35	Good Poems	4
#36	Tracks Louise Erdrich	3.88
#37	Americans' Favorite Poems Favorite Poem Project (U. S.)	5
#38	The Giver Lois Lowry	3.99
#39	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09
#40	Water for Elephants Sara Gruen	3.91
#42	Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.71
#43	A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	3.9
#44	American Gods Neil Gaiman	4.02
#45	City of Thieves David Benioff	4.29
#46	People of the book Geraldine Brooks Geraldine Brooks	4.09
#47	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams	4.02
#48	A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	4.4
#49	I, Claudius Robert Graves Stephen Alcorn	4.1
#51	All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy	4.13
#52	Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy Jostein Gaarder Paulette Møller (Translator)	3.7
#53	Hunger Knut Hamsun	3.9
#54	Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset Tiina Nunnally (Translator)	4
#55	Money Martin Amis	3.21
#56	Blindness José Saramago Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)	3.99
#58	A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving	4.1
#59	The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War Michael Shaara	4.26
#60	Titus Groan Mervyn Peake	3.34
#61	Ender's Game Orson Scott Card	4.26
#62	Foundation Isaac Asimov	3.99
#63	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick	3.95
#64	Pastoralia George Saunders	3.97
#65	American Pastoral Philip Roth	3.72
#66	Collected Stories John Cheever	3.8
#67	Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver	4.33
#68	The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.87
#69	The New York Trilogy Paul Auster	4.01
#70	Bel Canto Ann Patchett	3.79
#71	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.94
#72	Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)	3.89
#73	Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories Alice Munro	4
#74	S. Doug Dorst	3.99
#75	1Q84: Book 1 Haruki Murakami	3.85
#76	Cosmicomics Italo Calvino	4.4
#77	Tenth of December George Saunders	3.97
#78	The Gospel According to Jesus Christ José Saramago Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)	4.36
#79	The Wake Paul Kingsnorth	4.25
#80	Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.25
#81	The Red Tent Anita Diamant	3.91
#82	All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.22
#83	The Martian Andy Weir	4.4
#84	The Crossing Cormac McCarthy	4.21
#85	Death with Interruptions José Saramago Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)	3.66
#86	A Little Life	4.11
#87	Mystic River Dennis Lehane	4.21
#88	A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra	4.45
#89	Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver	4.03
#90	The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker	4.18
#91	The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen	4
#92	Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	4.28
#93	The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	4.05
#94	Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis Carl Wildman (Translator) Nikos Kazancakis Ahmet Angın (Translator)	3.6
#95	Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.11
#96	Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood	3.88
#97	Night Soldiers Alan Furst	3.56
#98	American War Omar El Akkad	3.85
#99	Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer	3.66
#100	What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours Helen Oyeyemi	3.13
#101	Call Me by Your Name André Aciman	4.04
#102	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	3.78
#103	What Is the What Dave Eggers	4.17
#104	Zeitoun Dave Eggers	4.05
#105	Cain José Saramago Margaret Jull Costa	3.44

Position	Details	Rating
#2	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Reg Keeland (Translator)	4.06
#3	Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk	4.06
#4	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer	3.96
#5	In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin	3.5
#6	High Fidelity Nick Hornby	3.9
#7	A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini	4.29
#8	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver	4.08
#9	2666 Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer (Translator)	3.87
#10	Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer	3.87
#11	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon	4.22
#12	The Corrections Jonathan Franzen	3.92
#13	Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.22
#14	Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.17
#15	No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy	4.07
#16	Atonement Ian McEwan	3.89
#17	Life of Pi Yann Martel	3.79
#18	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon	3.8
#19	Hyperion Dan Simmons	4.27
#20	Snow Crash Neal Stephenson	3.93
#21	More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon	3.72
#22	The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid	3.62
#23	The Shell Collector Anthony Doerr	4
#24	Ishmael Daniel Quinn	3.98
#25	Geek Love Katherine Dunn	3.73
#26	The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett	3.74
#27	Platform Michel Houellebecq Frank Wynne	3.81
#28	Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	3.95
#30	Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann	4.26
#31	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.14
#32	The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.05
#33	Girl Boy Etc Michael Weinreb	1
#34	The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	4.15
#35	Good Poems	4
#36	Tracks Louise Erdrich	3.88
#37	Americans' Favorite Poems Favorite Poem Project (U. S.)	5
#38	The Giver Lois Lowry	3.99
#39	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09
#40	Water for Elephants Sara Gruen	3.91
#42	Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.71
#43	A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	3.9
#44	American Gods Neil Gaiman	4.02
#45	City of Thieves David Benioff	4.29
#46	People of the book Geraldine Brooks Geraldine Brooks	4.09
#47	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams	4.02
#48	A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	4.4
#49	I, Claudius Robert Graves Stephen Alcorn	4.1
#51	All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy	4.13
#52	Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy Jostein Gaarder Paulette Møller (Translator)	3.7
#53	Hunger Knut Hamsun	3.9
#54	Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset Tiina Nunnally (Translator)	4
#55	Money Martin Amis	3.21
#56	Blindness José Saramago Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)	3.99
#58	A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving	4.1
#59	The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War Michael Shaara	4.26
#60	Titus Groan Mervyn Peake	3.34
#61	Ender's Game Orson Scott Card	4.26
#62	Foundation Isaac Asimov	3.99
#63	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick	3.95
#64	Pastoralia George Saunders	3.97
#65	American Pastoral Philip Roth	3.72
#66	Collected Stories John Cheever	3.8
#67	Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver	4.33
#68	The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.87
#69	The New York Trilogy Paul Auster	4.01
#70	Bel Canto Ann Patchett	3.79
#71	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.94
#72	Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)	3.89
#73	Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories Alice Munro	4
#74	S. Doug Dorst	3.99
#75	1Q84: Book 1 Haruki Murakami	3.85
#76	Cosmicomics Italo Calvino	4.4
#77	Tenth of December George Saunders	3.97
#78	The Gospel According to Jesus Christ José Saramago Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)	4.36
#79	The Wake Paul Kingsnorth	4.25
#80	Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.25
#81	The Red Tent Anita Diamant	3.91
#82	All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.22
#83	The Martian Andy Weir	4.4
#84	The Crossing Cormac McCarthy	4.21
#85	Death with Interruptions José Saramago Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)	3.66
#86	A Little Life	4.11
#87	Mystic River Dennis Lehane	4.21
#88	A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra	4.45
#89	Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver	4.03
#90	The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker	4.18
#91	The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen	4
#92	Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	4.28
#93	The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	4.05
#94	Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis Carl Wildman (Translator) Nikos Kazancakis Ahmet Angın (Translator)	3.6
#95	Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.11
#96	Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood	3.88
#97	Night Soldiers Alan Furst	3.56
#98	American War Omar El Akkad	3.85
#99	Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer	3.66
#100	What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours Helen Oyeyemi	3.13
#101	Call Me by Your Name André Aciman	4.04
#102	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	3.78
#103	What Is the What Dave Eggers	4.17
#104	Zeitoun Dave Eggers	4.05
#105	Cain José Saramago Margaret Jull Costa	3.44

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