/lit/ - Literature

>>20458792

>>19697574
You know the answers, you just don't want to hear them. Harry Potter singlehandedly invented a genre. Also,
>A Little Life
>Gone Girl
>The Martian
>The Way of Kings
You have to keep in mind too, what is great now may be forgotten to history and what lingers may be the trash or memes (like twilight might be viewed in a historical lens as our Dracula)

Did you believe her when she said she never read Battle Royale?

Don't you think it is a little transphobic for there to be only male and female tributes? I don't see why they couldn't include a third nonbinary tribute to be more inclusive. Also why is everybody straight? How can we make the YA genre more LGBTQIA+ inclusive?

Forget Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, and We. The Hunger Games is the world we're living in.

>>19108860
unironically this is what came to mind first.
>multiple examples of many different types of men, not just the love interests, from an outside view.
>not performative (man doing manly thing) because the protag is female
>primarily focuses on masculine values: courage, strength, intelligence, leadership, power
>encourages doing what's right in the face of power or a system
>also focuses on identity and strategy.

its easily the hunger games by a mile. Yeah, I gotta admit Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be had a nice plot twist at the end, but it was no where near the cliffhanger of hunger games.

What's the best genre for a novel writer to write a book and just sell millions of copies? Pic somehow related, it wasn't even that good and sold pretty well.

What happened to the teen apocalypse novels of the 2010s?

are the books any good?
they seem interesting