Literary vs. Genre Fiction

Best Contemporary Literary Fiction on April 2024 Shopping Deals at Bestonio.com

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

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

    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, ... [Read More]

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0017SWPXY
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • The Hideaway

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

    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&... [Read More]

  • Best Fake Fiancé

    • ASIN: B07WHLYYN1

    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... [Read More]

  • All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

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

    - 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 know... [Read More]

  • Beloved (Vintage International)

    • ASIN: B000TWUTYG
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Secret Song of the Ditch Lilies

    • ASIN: B07WDHK9V1
    • Manufacturer: Arbor House Books

    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 li... [Read More]

  • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

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

    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. Ab... [Read More]

  • Ordinary Grace

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

    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... [Read More]

  • Where the Forest Meets the Stars

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

    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 h... [Read More]

  • The Dearly Beloved: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07P5J6P57
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    “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 fictio... [Read More]

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

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

    Collects short stories from authors across the literary landscape

  • Brother's Best Friend: A Contemporary Romance Box Set

    • ASIN: B07WQPBCF4

    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 fr... [Read More]

  • Ask Again, Yes: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07MNJ62D6
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

    • ASIN: B004GHNEV0
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • The Overstory: A Novel

    • ASIN: 039335668X
    • ISBN: 039335668X
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeNew York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." ―Ann PatchettThe... [Read More]

  • The Winemaker's Wife

    • ASIN: B07MNG7ZNM
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

    Instant #1 bestseller from The Globe and Mail (Toronto) and The Toronto Star “Love and betrayal, forgiveness and redemption combine in a heady tale of the ever-present past…fantastic!” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris The author of the “engrossing” (People) international bestseller The Room on R... [Read More]

  • Best Friend's Daddy (Forever Daddies Book 3)

    • ASIN: B07WD3J675

    I know it’s so wrong, but my best friend needs to know. So, how do we say it?Hey, I’m pregnant with your father’s child! You’re gonna be a big sister! Yay!!!No, this can’t happen.She can’t know. No one can know.I always understood he was off limits,But I couldn’t imagine my life without him.In fact, I saved myself for him!And working ... [Read More]

  • Before We Were Yours: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01M14UN1J
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four... [Read More]

  • There There

    • ASIN: 0525436146
    • ISBN: 0525436146
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe  Winner of the PEN/Hemingway AwardWinner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leon... [Read More]

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