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What are the greatest books written in the last decade? You read contemporary works /lit/, r-right?

>> No.10841000

1Q84 is definitely not it, it's mostly the usual Murakami schtick just spread out over three books

Some great recent books:

The Book Of Strange New Things

The Corpse Exhibition

Secondhand Time

The Unwinding

Bleeding Edge

Tenth of December

The Tiger

HHhH

>> No.10841132

>>10841000
>genre fiction

sorry, forgot to mention I was talking about literature

>> No.10841134

>>10841000
>bleeding edge
Into the garbage

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>>10840966
> great prose and sense of rhythm to stream-of-consciousness monologues
> multiple characters with varying perspectives
> genuine sense of 1970s Jamaica - 1990s Jamaica
> genuinely unsettling yet darkly comic

>> No.10841172

Everything Laszlo Krasznahorkai published.

>> No.10841176

David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks

>> No.10841341

>>10841000
Besides having some recurring Murakamishit in it, 1Q84 is not just that.

I have an interest in The Book Of Strange New Things, The Corpse Exhibition, andBleeding Edge. Which one do you recommend I read first?

>> No.10841843

Lincoln in the Bardo was pretty good.

>> No.10842032

The Man Who Loved Dogs. it was 2009 though.

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>>10842032
tfw 2009 was over a decade ago

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>>10841176
I thought the pacing was all wrong, though I actually stopped reading it a little into the imagined future parts. Is it worth going back to? It's got some similar tropes to the book I'm writing, and I usually don't say shit like this, but I think I'd pull it off better.

>> No.10842258

>>10841000
>The Tiger
Nael is the only decent contemporary writer since Miranda July and Alice Munro.