{"id":11463,"count":121,"description":"Looking for the best contemporary fiction? With so many new arrivals to choose from, it can feel almost impossible to discern which books are worth the space the bedside table. Whether it's the best debut novels<\/a> of a recent year, the best contemporary literature of a given country (such as\u00a0Scandinavian fiction<\/a>\u00a0or Norwegian fiction<\/a>), or the recently published novels that have made prize shortlists,\u00a0Five Books curates interviews with expert recommendations from the most successful authors writing today.\r\n\r\nIn a distinct but related category, we have famous authors remarking on the books that have most influenced their novels, including Will Self<\/a>, Ian McEwan<\/a>, Max Porter<\/a>, and\u00a0William Boyd.<\/a>\r\n\r\nIf you don't have a particular sub-set of contemporary literature or author in mind, don't sweat it\u2014we also have plenty of interviews with writers on niche, unique subjects. Discover new thematic connections between books from recommendations on marriage (and divorce) in literature from Katie Kitamura<\/a>, Roger Ellory on\u00a0human dramas<\/a>, electronic literature<\/a>, apocalyptic novels<\/a> and even novels with sporting themes<\/a> \u2013 as selected by the author of the brilliant baseball novel\u00a0The Art of Fielding<\/em>. We also have reading lists centred upon what may be the literary capital of the world: New York writers<\/a> and New York novels<\/a>.\r\n\r\nBest Cormac McCarthy Books<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/contemporary-fiction\/","name":"Contemporary Fiction","slug":"contemporary-fiction","taxonomy":"category","parent":11186,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11186"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11463"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11463"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}