Contemporary Literature

[Anonymous No.10298647]

What literature have you read that has been published recently, say within the last decade? Books of any kind, novel or otherwise, fiction or non-fiction.

I ask because I, to my recollection, have not read anything at all published later than this

[Anonymous No.10298680]

Reading My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. Want to finish the Neapolitan Cycle because I like it a lot. It also makes we want to read My Struggle by Knausgard.

[Anonymous No.10298687]

Read this. I will probably read " A Little Life" if it comes to the library.

[Anonymous No.10298706]

Norm Macdonald's "memoir". Wasn't bad.

[Anonymous No.10298724]

Has anybody here read any truly awful books recently?

Feel morbidly curious after consuming good shit so much

[Anonymous No.10298732]

>>10298724
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. Utter shit.

[Anonymous No.10298733]

bleeding edge is better than people give it credit for

[Anonymous No.10298766]

People who can read spanish should read this

[Anonymous No.10298770]

>>10298687

That looks good, added to my list.
Some books I like or loved that were published in the last ~5 years:

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

The Book of Strange New Things

The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Tenth of December

Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

Amsterdam Stories

[Anonymous No.10298790]

>>10298770
Nice list :)

[Anonymous No.10298795]

Recently read Tai Pei, it was a great novel until it became clear that there was no way Tao was self-aware/able to end it in a satisfactory way. There was no real resolution, but the imagery in the book - for instance, Paul's musings on Taipei in relation to his own life, early on in the book - was stellar, as was the way he captured the depressed boredom of modern existence, memey as that idea may be. I'm looking forward to Leave Society though I don't actually have high hopes for it.

[Anonymous No.10298797]

>>10298770
>The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
I'm surprised that isn't memed on here. Can't wait to see the movie.

[Anonymous No.10298837]

>>10298770
If we're including non-fiction:

The Secret of Our Success
Nietzsche's New Darwinism
The Ego Tunnel
The Secret of the Labyrinth
Professor Borges
The Age of Em

[Anonymous No.10298841]

>>10298797
It's a surprisingly deep book! I went in thinking the author would shit on Wiseau for his weirdness, but it's more a story of a friendship the author himself does not understand

>>10298790
Thank you anon :3

[Anonymous No.10298871]

>>10298766

Cover is interesting. I can't read Spanish. What's the plot / why should people read it?

[Anonymous No.10298947]

emerald light in the air
bobcat
barrelling forward
you are having a good time
homesick for another world
dead husband project
the fun parts
angel esmeralda
the woman who married a cloud
redeployment
love affairs of nathaniel p
unlikely pilgrimage of harold frye
knausgard 1
the dinner
lush life
magicians trilogy
deathly hallows

[Anonymous No.10298958]

i think this is as good a time as any to shill my shitty ebook (self-recorded audio book inc. [fire emoji]). it's free, and you would make my year if you downloaded it just to shit on it in a review.

there's too many memes and young thug interpretations to be literary but what the hell, ya know?

[Anonymous No.10299004]

>>10298770
The Corpse Exhibition is scarier than most actual horror books, 9/10 would read again

[Anonymous No.10299122]

>>10298871
About the decay of a father and the human body

[Anonymous No.10299285]

stop fucking listing books and actually write your impressions about some of them

[Anonymous No.10299472]

>>10298958
admittedly I cracked your book. Lots of cats, man, what gives?

[Anonymous No.10300287]

>>10298947
>knausgard 1
Why do people say that the second one is better than the first one? It's such bullshit.

[Anonymous No.10300353]

>>10298647
>reading contemporary literature

[Anonymous No.10300497]

On the edge, by Rafael Chirbes. This book is a masterpiece.

My struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgård. Pretty good, although the third one sucked. I will read the last one when it comes out.

Leaving the Atocha station, by Ben Lerner. Comfy and fun.

[Anonymous No.10300611]

lincoln in the bardo is really good

[Anonymous No.10300662]

150 p in to The Pale King
it's not hard to imagine this guy as the author

[Anonymous No.10300878]

>>10300662
Better than IJ imhotbqhwyf

[Anonymous No.10301663]

>>10300878
haven't read IJ so I can't compare
it seems to be a common opinion here though

[Anonymous No.10302591]

all of nu-delillos stuff
which is better than his older stuff

[Anonymous No.10302804]

Some novels I enjoyed from the last decade
2017: Steve Erickson, Shadowbahn
2016: Alan Moore, Jerusalem
2015: Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
2014: Ben Lerner, 10:04
2013: Tao Lin, Taipei
2012: Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary
2011: Blake Butler, There Is No Year
2010: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
2009: Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
2008: Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances

[Anonymous No.10303216]

>>10299285
The thread just asked to list. For someone on /lit/ your reading skills aren't that great.

[Anonymous No.10303265]

>>10298706
Elucidate nigga. What do you mean by it "wasn't bad?"

[Anonymous No.10303315]

A bunch for school.
>Eunoia by Christian Bök
>Injun by Jordan Abel
>chapbooks by Fenn Stewart, Sean Braune

>Tfw Canadian

[Anonymous No.10303426]

>>10302804
>2017: Steve Erickson, Shadowbahn

Ooh, nice. I have Zeroville and should read it. Pynchon recommends Days Between the Station.

[Anonymous No.10303433]

>>10302591
Libra is still his best imo but I really liked Zero K and I'm kinda saddened that Delillo is so accessible stylistically that people who shouldn't be reading him read him.

[Anonymous No.10303435]

>>10298724
The Iliad

[Anonymous No.10303475]

Lawrence Osborne

[Anonymous No.10304069]

>>10303426
Pynchon recommended a book? Where did you ever find recommendations by him? Genuinely interested btw.

[Anonymous No.10304425]

>>10299285
i dont actually read books

however i spend tens of hours consuming reviews and highly-regarded opinions on books that are outside the scope of mass opinion, but well known enough to garner a following

i dont actually have a taste of my own, which is why my entire list is without any personality

[Anonymous No.10304583]

>>10304425
same
books are gay

[Anonymous No.10304825]

[Anonymous No.10304846]

>>10304583
Give a hoot, read a book

[Anonymous No.10304849]

What do you guys think of neil gaiman?

[Anonymous No.10304859]

>>10298647
six four by hideo yokoyama. long but it's a solid mystery with a nice twist. bought it because of the cover

[Anonymous No.10305506]

>>10298647
The latest Senges, Michon, Vila-matas, Marias, Quignard, Pynchon, The Magicians trilogy, Bakker (well, he's new, but still), Pullman, Helprin, Tawada

[Anonymous No.10306051]

>>10304069
he blurbed Days Between the Station, he blurbs a lot of books. Writers completely removed from Pynchon's style/themes send him books and if he likes it he blurbs it, if he doesn't/doesn't read it you hear nothing back.

[Anonymous No.10306069]

Easily one of the best books in the past 50 years. Will most likely be read for decades to come, as it should be.