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Name five good books you read that were written between 2000 and 2009

If you can't you're a pleb

>> No.3679720

>implying you can define 'good'

>> No.3679729

>>3679720
ITT it means 'books I enjoyed'

>> No.3679743
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Tree of Smoke
A Gate at The Stairs
Mason and Dixon
American Gods
The Road

>> No.3679759

Hunger
The Book of Disquiet
Germinal
Story of the Eye
The Recognitions

fuck

>> No.3679769

>>3679708
>Implying everybody has to enjoy modern literature instead of classics.

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>>3679708
god is not Great
Free Will
The End of Faith
The Moral Landscape
Something from Nothing

>> No.3679793

>>3679769
>implying you aren't missing alot of good stuff by just reading """classics""".

Are you a dadrocker aswell?

>> No.3679801

>>3679793
>implying contemporary literature could ever be as good as the classics
fuck off, edgy hipster

>> No.3679803

>>3679801
Your fedora is showing.

>> No.3679804

the bible

>> No.3679806

>>3679708
>>3679720
>>3679729
>>3679743
>>3679759
>>3679769
>>3679786
>>3679793
>>3679801
>>3679803
>Implying that the classics, or contemporary is better
>Implying that we shouldn't enjoy both.

>> No.3679808

>>3679806
that's what i was saying spamtard

>> No.3679815

>>3679708
I can't attest to writing date, publishing date only.

>> No.3679817

2666
The road
The pale king
Super sad true love story
Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstätter Kindes

>> No.3679826

Death with Intervals
The Elephant's Journey
The Prague Cemetery
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
The Road

>> No.3679838

Everything I've read lately has either been earlier (mostly the '80s) or later (2011-13).

The only two books I've read than I know for a fact were published within that span of time are The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson and No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.

>> No.3679847

>>3679708
The Road
The Corrections
The Patrick Melrose Novels
The Orphan Master's Son

>> No.3679848

>>3679708
>Spot the dog and his yellow ball
>Hunger games
>Jonathan Ross' autobiography
>Eragon
>Signs of a witch

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>>3679848

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>>3679848
BEAT THAT YOU ASPIES

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>>3679876

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Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe
AM/PM by Amelia Gray
The Blue Fox by Sjon
Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel
Bob, or Man on Boat by Peter Markus
Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
The Whistler by Ondjaki
Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg
In the Time of the Blue Ball by Maneual Draeger
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti Skomsvold
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos


I liked all of these.