Great works since the 00s.

[Anonymous No.20102382]

What have been the greatest works and masterpieces since the oughts?

[Anonymous No.20103381]

I borrowed this book from the library and it made me furious.
It was a terrible Serbo-Croatian translation. Dropped it when I was 20% through.
Really need to read it in English.

[Anonymous No.20103759]

>>20102382
Is /lit/ really this dead? I'm aware there's been a deadlock in the culture, but even in the early oughts there was a half decent master work every 1-3 years.

[Anonymous No.20103773]

>>20103759
my suicide note

[Anonymous No.20103774]

i hate women

[Anonymous No.20103798]

>>20102382
That's up there, and has grown on me since I read it on release. Klara and the Sun (also Ishiguro) is wonderful as well.

[Anonymous No.20103809]

>>20103759
I don't read much contemporary literature, though I'll keep an eye on this thread for any recommendations.

[Anonymous No.20103832]

This is up there. Also has anyone read Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire? They both won the William Dean Howells medal this century.

[Anonymous No.20103836]

>>20103832
I forgot to add picrel lol

[Anonymous No.20103839]

[Anonymous No.20103844]

[Anonymous No.20103860]

this is the only post 2000 novel i have read that i really have considered great

[Anonymous No.20103945]

>>20103844
>great work
>masterpiece
it's neither of those
>>20103836
awful

[Anonymous No.20103966]

The pale king
The instructions
The book of numbers
Against the day
After dark
Atonement
2666
The road
Never let me go
Outline trilogy

I've enjoyed all of these immensely

[Anonymous No.20103967]

>>20103945
An awful good time

[Anonymous No.20103987]

>>20103809
I know, I get it. Very annoying to filter potential garbage. But we only need 1-2 readers of newly published works each year to discern taste for our culture. Lit magazines used to do this for us, but where are the ones with good taste now?

Where are our 2010s great, high, and master works?

[Anonymous No.20103994]

>>20103759
>/lit/
Whoops, I mean literature itself.

[Anonymous No.20104018]

>>20103759
The below list should be enough confirmation that literature is dead, or certainly what people consider good literature.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century

[Anonymous No.20104567]

>>20104018
Guardian is a pop paper. Are there really no real mags left?

[Anonymous No.20105006]

>>20102382
Les bienveillantes

[Anonymous No.20105344]

>>20103759
This. I have loads of good, even great books on my shelf from the later half of the 20th century but it seems as soon as we got the the new millennium culture just hit the shitter with the trickle of good stuff being produced seemingly dying with those 20th century writers.
Seriously wtf happened and is there a good book related to this topic?

[Anonymous No.20105360]

>>20103759
This. I have loads of good, even great books on my shelf from the later half of the 20th century but it seems as soon as we got to the new millennium culture just went down the shitter with the trickle of good stuff being produced seemingly dying with those 20th century writers.
Seriously wtf happened and is there a good book related to this topic?

[Anonymous No.20105367]

>>20103759
What are these 7-20 'masterworks' of the 21st century

[Anonymous No.20106728]

God is there seriously no one who knows anything about literature here?

[Anonymous No.20106997]

>>20106728
We have these threads all the time, I get sick of recommending the same thing over and over

[Anonymous No.20107029]

>>20106997
bc u dont read much. less than 5 great works were posted itt

[Anonymous No.20107188]

>>20103381
In case you're new to Ishiguro, this is a pretty good chart

[Anonymous No.20107191]

>>20102382
>oughts
Please don't use this term

[Anonymous No.20107440]

>>20105006
based and auepilled

[Anonymous No.20107487]

>>20103839
Best answer

[Anonymous No.20108065]

>>20107191
Why ought not I say oughts rather than early two thousands or double ohs?

[Anonymous No.20108571]

>>20103836
>look at me i'm such a smart little boy please love me
literally every gass book

[Anonymous No.20109502]

>>20102382
don't think it was the best one, but when it comes to comfy, and dissipating into the world of a book this was a truly wonderful experience.

[Anonymous No.20109507]

>>20102382
>querig's hawthorn bush

bros, hold me....

[Anonymous No.20109538]

looking at what i've read, i would say the below books are especially good

W. G. Sebald Austerlitz 2001
Jamie O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys 2001
Fleur Jaeggy S. S. Proleterka 2001
Denis Johnson Train Dreams 2002
Roberto Bolaño 2666 2004
Marilynne Robinson Gilead 2004
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go 2005
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking 2005
Jan Morris Hav 2006
Han Kang The Vegetarian 2007
László Krasznahorkai Seiobo There Below 2008
Vladimir Sorokin Ice Trilogy 2008
Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge 2008
Karl Ove Knausgård My Struggle Book 1: A Death in the Family 2009
Anne Carson Nox 2009
Alice Munro Too Much Happiness 2009
George Saunders Tenth of December 2013
Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings 2014
Fleur Jaeggy I Am the Brother of XX 2014
Samanta Schweblin Fever Dream 2014
Kazuo Ishiguro The Buried Giant 2015
László Krasznahorkai Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming 2016
George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo 2017
David Diop At Night All Blood Is Black 2018
Kevin Barry Night Boat to Tangier 2019

[Anonymous No.20109573]

>>20109538
>women in the list
>trilogy
I own that Ishiguro book and I haven't read it yet but I'm no longer sure if I should

[Anonymous No.20109578]

>>20109573
i mentioned two ishiguro books

[Anonymous No.20109588]

>>20109578
yes

[Anonymous No.20109610]

>>20104018
>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century

this is depressing. normal people is no.25

[Anonymous No.20109625]

>>20109538
>Let me list some books from other lists that sounded interesting to me, never mind I clearly haven't read them

[Anonymous No.20109744]

>>20103860
Based tavares

[Anonymous No.20109779]

>>20104018
Holy hell, this list is pure shit.

[Anonymous No.20109858]

[Anonymous No.20109988]

>>20107188
I've read everything by Ishiguro (several books multiple times) and this chart is stupid.