/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23334029]

How come you people never talk about recent releases? Does a book really have to be over a decade old to be relevant to you?
Challenge: post a book written in within the past decade that you enjoyed. If you don't have one, use a search engine to find one you might like and post about it.
Pic related came out last year and I thought it was fun. It's about a Disney theme park princess who murders people to cope with her grandmother's mortality. Both the novel and its protagonist take inspiration from American Psycho. At some point, the protagonist fucks Johnny Depp. It's a wild ride.

[Anonymous No.23334044]

i read a decent amount of recent lit but that looks like fucking shit anon

[Anonymous No.23334054]

[Anonymous No.23334203]

>>23334029
Cheating a little, but this is really great. More specifically the 1st and 2nd books, the second half of the 3rd is also good. The 1st half of the third is unfortunately drivel.

[Anonymous No.23334537]

I assume it’s all women, fags, and Jews writing about their Jewish American experience (which has been most lit the last 30 fucking years). Women…. well a select few can appeal to male readers but I’ll let other people take the gamble and wait for the reviews. Fags sometimes produce good stuff when they’re in the closet and angry, which none are anymore. Jews writing about Jew shit is a hard pass. And then White males seem caught up in genre fiction now and I don’t want sci fi, noir, etc.

[Anonymous No.23335110]

>>23334044
Filtered

[Anonymous No.23335124]

I thought this was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.23335134]

OP here. Got another one for you dark lit out there. This one's a 2017 historical fiction novel about a court jester.

[Anonymous No.23335154]

>>23335134
Sounds good. If you liked that, you might like this, from 2019.

[Anonymous No.23335215]

>>23334029
I'm reading this one. It's like if /gif/ was a real place.

[Anonymous No.23335220]

Idk why I enjoyed it so much
I also love Foucault's Pendulum

[Anonymous No.23335247]

Comfy read, it's a murder mystery but with time loops and body swaps.

[Anonymous No.23335611]

just started but I like it
(ignore the obnoxious cover)

[Anonymous No.23335693]

Starts off with a corporation that employs people to say random sequences of hebrew phonemes to find the magical Names of God, and goes a lot of places. Symbolically it's about the nature of evil.

[Anonymous No.23335724]

>>23334029
all books published in the past decade have been for female gooners a la 50 Shades of Grey, or unbearable LGBTQ Black Lives Matter slop.

[Anonymous No.23335727]

He's a bit derivative of Franzen but it's some of the only not fully pozzed literature of recent memory.

[Anonymous No.23335730]

>>23335693
Didn't Ted Chiang write a story to that effect.

[Anonymous No.23335736]

rotting apples, lesbians, flesh, and piss
most /lit/tards are too busy trying to "read all the classics" to seem smart. they are too busy getting frustrated at homer (and eventually going back to video games) to bother reading anything published after the 1600s.

[Anonymous No.23335746]

>>23334029
Incredibly funny, very current with the times (if you're not antisemitic or a Zionist), it's a love letter to Harold Bloom, it's written really well, and it's a biting satire of one the worst men currently alive

[Anonymous No.23336194]

>>23335730
The Nine Billion Names of God
I think it likely took some inspiration from that story, yeah

[Anonymous No.23336196]

>>23336194
Wait, woops, that's not by Chiang, that's Clarke
Chiang wrote "Hell is the Absence of God" though, which is also similar

[Anonymous No.23336293]

Hari Kunzru is coming with a new one

[Anonymous No.23336790]

>>23336196
Yeah I was conflating those with Chiang's 72 Letters story which has Kabbalist motifs. thanks.