Contemporary Literature Reading Lists

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Top 10 Books for Moms
A selection of Mothers Day books: books for Mom, books about Mom, books for new Moms... if you're looking for a gift book for Mother's Day, or if you're a Mother looking for a book for yourself -- this is the list.

Top 10 Contemporary Lit Must Reads (first 10)
Twenty contemporary literature must-reads, essentials! If you've read all of these, you are well on your way to an honorary contemporary literature degree. This contemporary literature reading list is comprised largely of titles published since 1970. Please visit my Contemporary Classics Reading List for older and more classic contemporary titles.

Top 10 Contemporary Lit Must Reads (next 10)
Twenty contemporary literature must-reads, essentials! If you've read all of these, you are well on your way to an honorary contemporary literature degree. This contemporary literature reading list is comprised largely of titles published since 1970. Please visit my Contemporary Classics Reading List for older and more classic contemporary titles.

Top 10 Contemporary Classics
Ten books that have withstood the test of time, yet are recent enough to be called Contemporary Literature, these Contemporary Classics are a bare-bones reading list, essentials or must-reads. Any such list is purely subjective, of course, and one must soon choose for him or herself what makes the top ten, but this list would start you on your way to a solid background in Contemporary Literature.

Top 10 Contemporary Literature Nonfiction Essentials
Ten nonfiction must-reads: memoirs of person and place, personal essay, creative nonfiction, and biography. This titles in this list rank among the best nonfiction written in the past quarter century.