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I'm looking for some good contemporary fiction that's relatively new, say post 2010's. The recommended reading only shows four books.

I have recently read Commonwealth by Ann Patchett , and am currently reading Improvement by Joan Silber, both of which are very good.

George Saunders' short story collection "Tenth of December" is another one I'd recommend (I haven't read his novel Lincoln in the Bardo yet, however).

So, what other works of fiction post 2010 are worth checking out?

>> No.11069336

1Q84 barely fits but that’s a good one. Anything Haruki Murakami I’d recommend.

>> No.11069375
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11069375

Sure I've got some, most are fairly recent but I'll look into my reading journals to get some older ones:

Moonglow
The Nix
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Manhattan Beach
The Orphan Master's Son
The Incarnations
Lincoln in the Bardo

>> No.11069408

>>11069288

Freedom (2010) by Jonathan Franzen
Purity (2015) by Jonathan Franzen
11/22/63 (2011) by Stephen King
The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace
A Dance with Dragons (2011) by George R.R. Martin
Embassytown (2011) by China Meiville
NW (2012) by Zadie Smith
Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith
The Dirty Streets of Heaven (2012) by Tad Williams
The Dark Road (2013) by Ma Jian
Taipei (2013) by Tao Lin
Annihilation (2014) by Jeff Vandermeer
The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead
Pachinko (2017) by Min Jin Lee
Exit West (2017) by Mohsin Hamid
The Sky is Yours (2018) by Chandler Klang Smith
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock (2018) by Imogen Hermes Gowar

>inb4 they're all shit

>> No.11069425

4 3 2 1
Shadowbahn
These Dreams of You
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
As She Climbed Across the Table
The Goldfinch
Cloudbursts

>> No.11069556

>>11069288
Elena Ferrante's Neopolitan Cycle
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle

>> No.11069587

>>11069408
>inb4 they're all shit
but like...

>> No.11069590

the map and the territory

>>11069375
2nding a brief history of seven killings

>> No.11069592

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
It's meh. But one of the only books I've read from the 2010s. I think it's a love or hate kind of book. You may like it a lot if you want to be sad

>> No.11069707

Behead all Satans
The Magnificent Third Rail
Yurope
Cinderella's Concrete Shoes
Tails Gets Trolled

>> No.11069715

>>11069375
How is Bardo? I keep seeing it mentioned. It’s a fictional Story involving Abraham Lincoln and Buddhism?

>> No.11069717

>>11069707
Forgot to list My Twisted World

>> No.11069763

>>11069715

Me too. I love all his short fiction but something is making me keep this one at arms length.

>> No.11069831

Cannonball by Joseph McElroy is good

>> No.11069878

the buried giant

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11069896

I really enjoyed this one

>> No.11071261

>>11069375
>Moonglow
Is this a good read?