Great Contemporary Authors
Discover the best contemporary authors and their must-read books. Explore top modern writers and acclaimed literature in our curated list of great works today.
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Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas Pynchon
A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half âŚ
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A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning authorâs greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an âŚ
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
The story of Saleem Sinal, born precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, the moment India became independent. Saleem's life parallels the history of his nation.
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The Book of Evidence
by John Banville
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old man commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses âŚ
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The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
First published by Sun & Moon Press in three volumes in 1985 and 1986, The New York Trilogy has since been translated into many languages. âŚ
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Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
The story of an intelligent but zany dysfunctional family is set in a drug-and-alcohol addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy and follows such themes âŚ
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Everyman
by Philip Roth
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ⢠NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of âŚ
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A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
A New York Times bestselling authorâand âa mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wisemanâ (New York Times Book Review)âdelivers a surreal and elaborate quest that âŚ
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠The blockbuster debut novel from "a preternaturally gifted" writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Timeâset against âŚ
