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Hey /lit/

What are your favorite modern books?

I've been reading classics for a while, looking to take a break and read some good modern stuff. So what're some of your favorite books from, oh, lets say 1990 to present? Not too picky on genre, just wondering your favorites.

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>> No.1991109

infinite breast

>> No.1991110

>>1991104
I'm interested in this too, The only post-90s book I've read is the Road and I hated it. I think the biggest authors on lit from this period are Murakami and McCarthy.

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1991112

Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong

>> No.1991114

>>1991112
I fucking love avocados

>> No.1991115

>>1991109
I've heard good things, its on my list of things to read

>> No.1991117

Almost all fiction is modern, brother. Perhaps you mean to say 'contemporary', in which case I'd say Evelyn Waugh wrote some nifty stuff.

>> No.1991119

>>1991114

So does the narrator of Wetlands. She grows them as a hobby.

In fact, she loves them so much that she puts the pits in her vagina as a symbolic way of birthing them.

>> No.1991120

>>1991117
>all fiction is modern
>evelyn waugh
>contemporary

Wat

>> No.1991123

>>1991119
>>1991112
Reading the general overview of this book, it seems pretty interesting. Gonna look into it, thanks for the suggestion.

>> No.1991126

>>1991123

It's one of my favorites. Sure to be a feminist classic in the future.

It's a hard read though. It's the only book I've read that made me nauseous.

>> No.1991127

>>1991120
What's your objection on virtually all fiction (at least in that in prose) being modern?

As for Waugh, he did indeed write books after WWII, so he's a contemporary author.

>> No.1991128

>>1991127

Since when is "after WWII" the dividing line for contemporary?

>> No.1991133

>>1991127
>yfw OP said "1990 to present"

>> No.1991135

>>1991128
Since it became the consensus. I don't see any reason for dissidence; the date is quite reasonable although I'd push it back a little if it was up to me.

>> No.1991140

>>1991135
Maybe in correlation with the production line? Or the washing machine?<---- that is when god started becoming female...

>> No.1991145

The Emigrants by W.G Sebald
The Rings of Saturn by W.G Sebald
Austerlitz by W.G Sebald
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pinecone
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pinecone

Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson
Nox - Anne Carson

>> No.1991293

>>1991135

What consensus?

>> No.1991332

The Masters of Rome series-Colleen McCullough

I don't have anything as good as these books written in 1990 or later.

>> No.1991333

Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson

it's fantasy, but damn this guy can write

>> No.1991335

The Da Vinci Code