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Atonement is a 2001 novel by British author Ian McEwan about love, guilt, and redemption. Set primarily in England, the story follows the lives of its three main characters—Briony Tallis; her older sister, Cecilia; and Robbie Turner, the son of the family's housekeeper—and the repercussions of Briony's actions over the decades.
Featured Article: 10 Great Contemporary Fiction Authors
If you like well-written novels that prioritize compelling timely storylines with artful prose and structure, then this is the genre for you. So, why is it called "contemporary"? Because it’s fiction set in the real world, in times contemporary to the date it was published, and the stories deal with real-world issues. Representing a diversity of backgrounds and nationalities, here are our picks for the best writers of contemporary fiction over the last 50 years.
Best Sellers
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What We Can Know
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Overall773
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Performance722
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Story722
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis...
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I should have read this on Kindle
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-25
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What We Can Know
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-23-25
- Language: English
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Atonement
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,367
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Performance2,400
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Story2,395
National Book Critics Circle, Fiction, 2003 In Atonement, three children lose their innocence, as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935, and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In...
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An amazing book about complex human perception
- By Amazon Customer on 08-17-04
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Atonement
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-15-03
- Language: English
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Lessons
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Simon McBurney
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall720
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Performance628
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Story622
Both epic and intimate, the story of one man’s life across generations and historical upheavals: a deeply affecting novel about love, loss, ambition, and resolution from the best-selling author of Atonement. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain...
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Narrator Simon McBurney gets my 100% rating
- By Peggy M on 09-26-22
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Lessons
- Narrated by: Simon McBurney
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-13-22
- Language: English
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Expiación
- By: Ian McEwan, Editorial Anagrama
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance11
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Story11
En la gran casa de campo de la familia Tallis, la madre se ha encerrado en su habitación con migraña, y el señor Talli está en Londres...
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La Expiación que Nunca Conectó (Demasiado Lenta, Demasiado Suave)
- By Anonymous on 09-28-25
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Expiación
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-13-22
- Language: Spanish
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Lecciones
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Francesc Góngora
- Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Cuando era niño, los padres de Roland Baines lo enviaron a un internado. Allí, lejos del amparo familiar, tomó lecciones de piano con una joven profesora...
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Benevolente complejidad
- By jorge banos on 05-11-24
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Lecciones
- Narrated by: Francesc Góngora
- Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-13-23
- Language: Spanish
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The Daydreamer
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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Overall40
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Performance31
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Story31
Internationally best-selling author and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan presents his first book for children, The Daydreamer. Peter Fortune is unlike most kids his age. In fact, he's different from everybody else in the world. Peter has the amazing ability to make his daydreams come true. A...
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Charming and Sweet!!!
- By Matthew S. Hill on 03-27-17
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The Daydreamer
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-18-04
- Language: English
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The Comfort of Strangers
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall217
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Performance120
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Story121
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has won the Booker Prize, Whitbread Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his masterfully accomplished fiction. The Comfort of Strangers is an exquisitely crafted gothic novella. On holiday, Colin and Maria wander the ancient streets...
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Mysterious, bizarre
- By EVERETT on 07-21-07
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The Comfort of Strangers
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-20-04
- Language: English
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Saturday
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall879
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Performance480
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Story483
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan's novels have inspired sweeping critical acclaim and won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize for Amsterdam and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his modern masterpiece, Atonement. With Saturday, McEwan has crafted perhaps his most...
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Extraordinary
- By Madrid on 04-25-05
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Saturday
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-24-05
- Language: English
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Sweet Tooth
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,330
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Performance1,148
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Story1,148
Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt...
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Perfect Book for your Literary Sweet Tooth
- By Susianna on 11-18-12
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Sweet Tooth
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-13-12
- Language: English
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The Child in Time
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance117
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Story116
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan is a Booker and Whitbread Prize winner. In this powerful tour de force, two parents come to appreciate the forces of love and time after the disappearance of their daughter, Kate...
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Not McEwan's Best Effort
- By Charles on 06-07-09
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The Child in Time
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-23-08
- Language: English
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Solar
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Roger Allam, Ian McEwan
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall488
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Performance280
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Story279
Universally acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest novelists, Ian McEwan is a Booker Prize-winning, best-selling literary master. He displays a fresh facet of his considerable talent in Solar, a satirical novel rife with blistering humor. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast...
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What a disappointment
- By SharkHunterSFO on 04-02-10
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Solar
- Narrated by: Roger Allam, Ian McEwan
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-30-10
- Language: English
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Atonement
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
On the hottest day in 1935, and on the brink of a world war, three children lose their innocence as the sweltering summer heat bears down and their lives are changed forever....
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for writers
- By Anonymous on 11-04-24
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Atonement
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-21-22
- Language: English
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The Innocent
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall239
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Performance165
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Story164
War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him and the listener into a new type of story that is exhaustively...
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A little gem
- By Geoffrey on 08-19-04
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The Innocent
- Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-20-04
- Language: English
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On Chesil Beach
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Ian McEwan
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall500
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Performance277
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Story279
BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an...
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One of the best new novels in recent years
- By George on 06-13-07
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On Chesil Beach
- Narrated by: Ian McEwan
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-05-07
- Language: English
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Amsterdam
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance103
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Story105
Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 1998 The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was...
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Quick and engaging, well-read
- By Bronwen on 12-28-11
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Amsterdam
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-01-11
- Language: English
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Enduring Love
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall367
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Performance216
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Story217
From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant. The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air balloon...
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Thriller of the minds and relationships
- By EVERETT on 12-28-04
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Enduring Love
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 03-11-04
- Language: English
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Machines Like Me
- A Novel
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall866
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Performance762
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Story758
New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winner and international best-selling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in...
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Very disappointed.
- By Tom on 05-25-19
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Machines Like Me
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 04-23-19
- Language: English
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The Cement Garden
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall275
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Performance184
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Story183
One of the world's most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose, but they must...
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One of his best
- By Yennta on 04-03-10
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The Cement Garden
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-10-04
- Language: English
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First Love, Last Rites
- Stories
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Overall29
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Performance24
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Story24
Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom...
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Trash
- By Michael on 05-08-23
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First Love, Last Rites
- Stories
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 11-18-14
- Language: English
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Nutshell
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,159
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Performance1,943
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Story1,934
From the best-selling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two...
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The Long Version, and the Short.
- By Ilana on 09-19-16
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Nutshell
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-13-16
- Language: English
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