Contemporary Fiction Ebooks

Contemporary fiction ebooks are often thoughtfully realistic modern stories that take place in the present day. Books in this category explore modern life and dissect some of the true-to-life tensions, drama, and challenges that come up in the quirks of everyday life. Check out some of the very best contemporary fiction books, award winners, and must-read list toppers below.

Contemporary fiction ebooks are often thoughtfully realistic modern stories that take place in the present day. Books in this category explore modern life and dissect some of the true-to-life tensions, drama, and challenges that come up in the quirks of everyday life. Check out some of the very best contemporary fiction books, award winners, and must-read list toppers below.

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The Wife App: A Novel
The Wife App: A Novel
The Wife App: A Novel
The Wife App: A Novel
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The Wife App: A Novel

byCarolyn Mackler

Because every wife deserves a happy ending. Three best friends decide they’re finally done with their ex-husbands taking their work as wives and moms for granted. They’re ready to monetize the mental load, stick it to their exes, and have a wild ride in the process in this novel that is “fresh, funny, empowering, and totally satisfying” (Judy Blume). Lauren, mother of twins, wakes up one morning to her Wife Alarm Bells sounding. She sleuths on her husband’s phone and stumbles on a dirty secret that explodes her marriage. Madeline has it all—a penthouse apartment, a perfect daughter, and no-strings-attached romps with handsome men. But when she learns she might lose her child to her ex in England, it stirs up a decades-old personal tragedy. Sophie, with too much FOMO and never enough money, obsesses over her ex-husband’s Family 2.0—all while keeping her true desires hidden, even from herself. It starts as a joke during a tipsy night out, as Lauren, Madeline, and Sophie rail against everything wives do for free. Let’s build an app that monetizes the mental load. And maybe revenge on our exes in the process. Soon, the Wife App is born, and before long, it’s the fastest growing start-up in New York City. But then life intervenes. Love intervenes. Ex-husbands intervene. And the consequences are bigger than anything Lauren, Madeline, or Sophie could have expected. Carolyn Mackler marks her debut into adult fiction with a rollercoaster ride of revenge and redemption that is at once a send-up of modern marriage and a celebration of female friendship and love in all forms.

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Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eighteen books, including Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, Good in Bed, and an essay collection, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing. A graduate of Princeton University and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Opinion section, Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia.

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Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eighteen books, including Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, Good in Bed, and an essay collection, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing. A graduate of Princeton University and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Opinion section, Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia.

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About Contemporary Fiction

Work, politics, relationships, and the struggles of the modern era. Contemporary fiction novels are a popular category, showing us that we tend to look to novelists to tell our stories and help us make sense of our age. 21st century readers are drawn to novels that capture the zeitgeist and make some sense of the world around us. The wide-ranging contemporary fiction ebook category features books that distil the unique questions of the modern era into relatable fiction, whether it’s climate change, globalization, the current pandemic, or the Internet. Some of the most widely read subcategories in contemporary fiction are Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, and Contemporary Women’s Fiction. Effective and persuasive contemporary fiction authors draw inspiration from the world around them and weave some of those complexities into compelling and thought-provoking stories. Some of the best contemporary fiction book writers include Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney, Louise Erdrich, Richard Powers, and Zadie Smith. If you want to gain a new perspective on the current world, you can do that via some of the best contemporary fiction ebooks. These bestselling contemporary books offer us new insights into our world from a fictional standpoint. Characters are everyday people confronting relatable problems that we all recognize and may have faced ourselves. Here are some of Everand’s current best contemporary fiction ebooks: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, and This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.

Work, politics, relationships, and the struggles of the modern era. Contemporary fiction novels are a popular category, showing us that we tend to look to novelists to tell our stories and help us make sense of our age. 21st century readers are drawn to novels that capture the zeitgeist and make some sense of the world around us. The wide-ranging contemporary fiction ebook category features books that distil the unique questions of the modern era into relatable fiction, whether it’s climate change, globalization, the current pandemic, or the Internet. Some of the most widely read subcategories in contemporary fiction are Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, and Contemporary Women’s Fiction. Effective and persuasive contemporary fiction authors draw inspiration from the world around them and weave some of those complexities into compelling and thought-provoking stories. Some of the best contemporary fiction book writers include Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney, Louise Erdrich, Richard Powers, and Zadie Smith. If you want to gain a new perspective on the current world, you can do that via some of the best contemporary fiction ebooks. These bestselling contemporary books offer us new insights into our world from a fictional standpoint. Characters are everyday people confronting relatable problems that we all recognize and may have faced ourselves. Here are some of Everand’s current best contemporary fiction ebooks: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, and This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.