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I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-now
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan! on 6/15/21 at 10:29 pm41
the new canon
According to the site creator, he/she will be constantly adding new works as time moves on.
list so far
Gabriel García Márquez:
Love in the Time of Cholera
David Foster Wallace:
Infinite Jest
Margaret Atwood:
The Handmaid's Tale
Toni Morrison:
Beloved
Jonathan Franzen:
The Corrections
Don DeLillo:
Underworld
Zadie Smith:
White Teeth
Roberto Bolaño:
2666
Mark Z. Danielewski:
House of Leaves
Cormac McCarthy:
Blood Meridian
Philip Roth:
American Pastoral
Jonathan Lethem:
The Fortress of S0litude
Haruki Murakami:
Kafka on the Shore
Edward P. Jones:
The Known World
Ian McEwan:
Atonement
Michael Chabon:
The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier & Clay
Philip Roth:
The Human Stain
Mario Vargas Llosa:
The Feast of the Goat
Marilynne Robinson:
Gilead
David Mitchell:
Cloud Atlas
José Saramago:
Blindness
Jennifer Egan:
A Visit from the Goon Sqad
W. G. Sebald:
Austerlitz
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot
Donna Tartt:
The Secret History
Michael Ondaatje:
The English Patient
Saul Bellow:
Ravelstein
A.S. Byatt:
Possession
Umberto Eco:
Foucault's Pendulum
Cormac McCarthy:
The Road
David Foster Wallace:
The Pale King
J.K. Rowling:
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
Arundhati Roy:
The God of Small Things
Roberto Bolaño:
The Savage Detectives
Paul Auster:
The New York Trilogy
Per Petterson:
Out Stealing Horses
Ann Patchett:
Bel Canto
Ben Okri:
The Famished Road
Joseph O'Neill:
Netherland
Haruki Murakami:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Marisha Pessl:
Special Topics in Calamity
Physics
Jonathan Franzen:
Freedom
Colm Tóibín:
The Master
Denis Johnson:
Tree of Smoke
Richard Russo:
Empire Falls
Alice Munro:
Runaway
Martin Amis:
London Fields
Mark Haddon:
The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time
John Banville:
The Sea
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Jeffrey Eugenides:
Middlesex
Junot Diaz:
The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao
Aravind Adiga:
The White Tiger
Tim O'Brien:
The Things They Carried
Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
Tobias Wolff:
Old School
Tim Winton:
Cloudstreet
David Foster Wallace:
Oblivion
Oscar Hijuelos:
The Mambo Kings Play
Songs of Love
According to the site creator, he/she will be constantly adding new works as time moves on.
list so far
Gabriel García Márquez:
Love in the Time of Cholera
David Foster Wallace:
Infinite Jest
Margaret Atwood:
The Handmaid's Tale
Toni Morrison:
Beloved
Jonathan Franzen:
The Corrections
Don DeLillo:
Underworld
Zadie Smith:
White Teeth
Roberto Bolaño:
2666
Mark Z. Danielewski:
House of Leaves
Cormac McCarthy:
Blood Meridian
Philip Roth:
American Pastoral
Jonathan Lethem:
The Fortress of S0litude
Haruki Murakami:
Kafka on the Shore
Edward P. Jones:
The Known World
Ian McEwan:
Atonement
Michael Chabon:
The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier & Clay
Philip Roth:
The Human Stain
Mario Vargas Llosa:
The Feast of the Goat
Marilynne Robinson:
Gilead
David Mitchell:
Cloud Atlas
José Saramago:
Blindness
Jennifer Egan:
A Visit from the Goon Sqad
W. G. Sebald:
Austerlitz
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot
Donna Tartt:
The Secret History
Michael Ondaatje:
The English Patient
Saul Bellow:
Ravelstein
A.S. Byatt:
Possession
Umberto Eco:
Foucault's Pendulum
Cormac McCarthy:
The Road
David Foster Wallace:
The Pale King
J.K. Rowling:
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
Arundhati Roy:
The God of Small Things
Roberto Bolaño:
The Savage Detectives
Paul Auster:
The New York Trilogy
Per Petterson:
Out Stealing Horses
Ann Patchett:
Bel Canto
Ben Okri:
The Famished Road
Joseph O'Neill:
Netherland
Haruki Murakami:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Marisha Pessl:
Special Topics in Calamity
Physics
Jonathan Franzen:
Freedom
Colm Tóibín:
The Master
Denis Johnson:
Tree of Smoke
Richard Russo:
Empire Falls
Alice Munro:
Runaway
Martin Amis:
London Fields
Mark Haddon:
The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time
John Banville:
The Sea
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Jeffrey Eugenides:
Middlesex
Junot Diaz:
The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao
Aravind Adiga:
The White Tiger
Tim O'Brien:
The Things They Carried
Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
Tobias Wolff:
Old School
Tim Winton:
Cloudstreet
David Foster Wallace:
Oblivion
Oscar Hijuelos:
The Mambo Kings Play
Songs of Love
This post was edited on 6/15 at 11:27 pm
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by The Spleen on 6/16/21 at 10:21 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Thanks for sharing. I need to get out of my rut of reading and re-reading classics. I've read many on this list already - some I liked, some I hated - but always good to have a list to refer back to when book shopping.
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by boxcarbarney on 6/16/21 at 10:34 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Interesting. The ones I've read on that list are:
Mark Z. Danielewski:
House of Leaves
Cormac McCarthy:
The Road
J.K. Rowling:
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
Chuck Palahniuk:
Fight Club
Tim O'Brien:
The Things They Carried
I didn't realize Mambo Kings was originally a novel. I loved the movie and the soundtrack.
Mark Z. Danielewski:
House of Leaves
Cormac McCarthy:
The Road
J.K. Rowling:
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
Chuck Palahniuk:
Fight Club
Tim O'Brien:
The Things They Carried
I didn't realize Mambo Kings was originally a novel. I loved the movie and the soundtrack.
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by Tigris on 6/16/21 at 10:49 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
David Foster Wallace:
The Pale King
This one surprises me - one of the least enjoyable books I've ever read. And I'm a huge DFW fan and would have Infinite Jest at the top of the list. The Pale King seemed to have been written to intentionally be tedious (the point of the book really). It was also unfinished at his death and was pieced together, by his wife I think.
quote:
Don DeLillo:
Underworld
Really like this one - probably the best thing I've read in the last 10 years or so. White Noise is also very good.
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by Htowntiger90 on 6/16/21 at 2:21 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
It's a good list - I've only read about a quarter of them. I've got some catching up to do on contemporary lit.
I thought Gilead was good but not necessarily Pulitzer great. Maybe b/c I liked the writing in Housekeeping much better? I felt like I could have passed on A Visit from the Goon Squad. But it catapulted Jennifer Egan into being a guest NYT book reviewer, so what do I know?
Glad to see Chabon on there. Kavalier & Klay is still my favorite novel of this century. Atonement & The Road are right up there too.
I thought Gilead was good but not necessarily Pulitzer great. Maybe b/c I liked the writing in Housekeeping much better? I felt like I could have passed on A Visit from the Goon Squad. But it catapulted Jennifer Egan into being a guest NYT book reviewer, so what do I know?
Glad to see Chabon on there. Kavalier & Klay is still my favorite novel of this century. Atonement & The Road are right up there too.
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by Rocky Gamucci on 6/16/21 at 8:11 pm to Htowntiger90
Kavalier and Klay isn't even my favorite Chabon. The Things They Carried, however, is one of my favorites. Looking forward to getting into some David Foster Wallace. I'll give Dennis Johnson's Trees of Smoke a shot. Laughing Monsters was cool, but ultimately not first class..
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re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by Htowntiger90 on 6/17/21 at 8:39 am to Rocky Gamucci
quote:
Kavalier and Klay isn't even my favorite Chabon.
Yeah, thinking on it I like Wonder Boys from '95 even more. Would like to reread that one. My favorites list can be a fluid situation.
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by HailHailtoMichigan! on 7/4/21 at 12:12 am to Rocky Gamucci
I have kavalier and klay sitting on my shelf. I need to read it
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by Charter Embers on 7/4/21 at 12:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
It is sneaky good. Doesn’t matter if you’re into comic books or not.
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by Sneaky__Sally on 7/5/21 at 7:27 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I've only read a few of those, thanks
re: I came across this site that lists what it believes is the “canon” of lit written 1985-nowPosted by Htowntiger90 on 7/6/21 at 8:54 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
I have kavalier and klay sitting on my shelf. I need to read it
A great book, even if it does send you to the dictionary now and then.
I get that his vocabulary and cultural/historical references are too much for some people. But going through that book is like a master class in writing.
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