/lit/ - Literature

>>20759544
>but I don’t read contemporary fiction
I have been trying to. I like some of it but I haven't read enough contemporaries to really sound convincing. I found several other titles but only one of them was in the past 5 years as suggested so I try to go last ~10.
It's just that contemporary fiction cares about such different things that the modern part of the comp title I can only loosely relate. So I say "this contemporary character arc is similar to my character but other than that it's more like this one classic." Some classics still get a surprising amount of contemporary reading (e.g. Wuthering Heights). I am making a list of titles for the comp title and gonna practice pitching it to find out what sounds stronger. It's a big deal for agents and editors apparently because high-concept is what they want.

>>20691055
I liked this one from 2011 but one anon told me he thought it was boring. "Never Let Me Go" by Ishiguro is liked, that was 2005.