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Hey guys. I'm looking through year-end lists of the best books from 2015. What is worth reading from this year?

>> No.7502156

purity by franzen
breezeway by ashbery
the life of saul bellow: to fame and fortune 1915-1964 by zachary leader

thats pretty much it

>> No.7502160

You too can have a body like mine by alexandra kleeman, my waifu

>> No.7502162

Soumission is the biggest one of the year.

>> No.7502167

>>7502162
You mean submission?

>> No.7502179

>>7502156
What about Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen?

>> No.7502183
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7502183

>>7502156
is purity really worth it? I read the 20-page excerpt that New Yorker put out this summer but I wasn't sure that I was ready to read about getting cucked by 15 year-old

>> No.7502185

>>7502179
nah, a by the numbers postmodern novel

>> No.7502190

>>7502183
he's finally shedding his distaste for "experimental" or "complicated" fiction and coming up with more interesting stuff

so yes

>> No.7502200
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>>7502190
what do you mean by experimental?

Is it true there is a female character who can only get off by sucking cock?

>> No.7502211

A Brief History of Seven Killings

>> No.7502215

>>7502183
it got shit reviews because he stomps on feminism in it

not even kidding

look up "Anabel Laird"

>> No.7502222

>>7502215
I don't like feminism either but that's not enough to make me read Franzen.

>> No.7502224

>>7502211
yup, charlie rose recently interviewed the author, it was pretty rad and and any true lit brah will dig it if they authentic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvFdIs7Ishw

>> No.7502226

>>7502222
quints for truth

>> No.7502230

>>7502226
I appreciate the sentiment but you don't know how to count

>> No.7502234

>>7502200
completely non-linear, told from several different character's perspectives in different times and places but all linked thematically. distinctly non-aristotlean in the sense of no cemented plot arch

>> No.7502235

>>7502230
my bad

>> No.7502240

>>7502234
wow so edgy, that would have p rad like 30 years ago

>> No.7502242

>>7502240
go home bret easton ellis
franzen outsells you

>> No.7502283

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy and Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell

>> No.7502315

>>7502107
not much most of them read like badly written graphic novels

>> No.7502352

>>7502315
So, like any graphic novel?

>> No.7502383

>>7502179
Also seconding the no. Anything that sounds interesting on paper about it has no payoff. It's all him jerking off into his own mouth.

>> No.7502396

>>7502383
I like jerking off into my own mouth, so maybe I'll enjoy the book.

>> No.7502501

you Hapsburg fuck

>> No.7504168

>>7502283
Anyone here read Adam Thirlwell?