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List of Best Contemporary Literature

This is a ranking list of contemporary literature. Only top dozen Best Contemporary Literature, according to different criteria, are presented. The ranking is in particular based on the number of occurences of each piece of contemporary literature in web pages, news, pictures and people votes in corresponding context.

Overall popularity

Rank	Score	Item
1.	107	Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2.	104	Color Purple (Alice Walker)
3.	102	Beloved (Toni Morrison)
4.	94	Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
5.	88	Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
6.	87	Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
7.	83	God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
8.	83	English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
9.	82	Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
10.	82	Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
11.	82	Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
12.	79	Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

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Voting popularity

Score		Item
45		Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
42		Color Purple (Alice Walker)
35		Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur S. Golden)
35		Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
35		Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
33		Beloved (Toni Morrison)
31		English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
30		Shogun (James Clavell)
30		World According to Garp (John Irving)
29		Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
29		I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb)
28		She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)

Popularity on the Web

Score		Item
742		Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
699		Beloved (Toni Morrison)
581		Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
485		Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
482		Color Purple (Alice Walker)
421		Atonement (Ian McEwan)
397		Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
365		The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
363		Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
340		2666 - A Novel
334		Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
328		Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)