Have any good books even come out in the last twenty years? Like, what books from this current era do you think will be considered classics in the future?

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Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:05:36 2011 No.2286946 [Reply] [Original]

Have any good books even come out in the last twenty years?

Like, what books from this current era do you think will be considered classics in the future?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:06:35 2011 No.2286948 Mason & Dixon and American Pastoral

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:08:35 2011 No.2286950 Yes, many. Especially from countries that aren't the US, though threads like this are always filled exclusively with American authors.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:09:35 2011 No.2286951 >>2286950 Your recommendations?

>>	D13373R !MrMfefbucA Thu Dec 29 23:12:35 2011 No.2286959 Ender's Game

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:15:36 2011 No.2286961 Almost the entire works of Judith Butler. (Technically Gender Troubles was 21 years, but it's close enough)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:16:36 2011 No.2286964 >>2286961 Gender Trouble*

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:16:36 2011 No.2286965

>>2286951
reposting some off the author list that comes with every reiteration of this thread.

César Aira
Yu Hua
László Krasznahorkai
Bei Dao
Can Xue
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Enrique Vila-Matas
Andrzej Stasiuk
Michal Ajvaz
Olga Tokarczuk
Liliana Ursu
Péter Esterházy

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:19:36 2011 No.2286970 jonathan coe!!!! probably david foster wallace too, although imo he's more likely to be remembered as an essayist above all else. also a bunch of other stuff ofc

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