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What are the best (or your favorite) works of fiction from the last two decades? I'm looking to catch up on some modern stuff.

I like Austerlitz, Train Dreams, 2666, Pynchon, The Sellout. Goon Squad was ok. Probably going to read Gilead next because I liked Housekeeping a lot.

>> No.19006676

>>19006511
Nothing from the anglophere and I'm pretty sure the books I like aren't available in english.

>> No.19007417

Here are some books that I picked up for pennies that I don't know much about other than that they have received some acclaim. Not sure how many of them have merit and how many of them are bad. Would appreciate any advice on which to try and which to avoid.

>All The Light We Cannot See
>The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay
>Americanah
>Atonement
>Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
>The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
>Cloud Atlas
>Cold Mountain
>The Corrections
>The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
>The Echo Maker
>The Goldfinch
>A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
>IQ84
>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
>Let The Great World Spin
>Middlesex
>Olive Kitteridge
>Salvage The Bones
>The Sisters Brothers
>Swamplandia
>The White Tiger
>Wolf Hall

>> No.19007501

>>19007417
pretty sure you can donate all of them back

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>>19007501
You've read all of those and none of them are worth reading?

>> No.19008316

>>19008009
i’ve read non of them, and non of them are worth reading

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>> No.19009378

>>19008324
I’ll check this out

>> No.19010461

Bump

>> No.19010598

los detectivos salvajos

>> No.19011935

>>19006511
Behead All Satans
Gothic Violence
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

>> No.19011943

>>19007417
Kavalier and Clay is good