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Seems like this board focuses more on the classic literature, but I'd like to know more about our times. Enlighten me on the contemporary literature (say, 1990-present), /lit/. What authors, books, emerging trends should I know? Any charts concerning our period?
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David Foster Wallace, Tao Lin, the list goes on and on.
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>>8229221
anything but Tao Lin, IJ is kind of unavoidable

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Road by Cormac MacCarthy
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Fat Years by Koonchung Chang
Half A Yellow Sun by Adichie Ngozi
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Life of Pi by Yann Martell
Fury by Salman Rushdie
The Constant Gardner by John Le Carre
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
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>>8229439
Some good stuff mixed with absolute shit that won't be reme oh wait you're a tripfag, nevermind.
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>>8229211
Classic /lit/ is pretty much everything before 50-100 years ago.

There has been a lot of great shit since then, and /lit/ reads a lot of it. We also read quite a bit of post 1990 stuff. Pay attention. Lurk more.
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>>8229448
>getting mad at tripfags

hello summer newfriend
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>>8229448
Correct assessment. Go back to bed Tony, we still don't give a shit about your voice of the generation novel.
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>>8229509
>getting mad at getting mad at tripfags
hello tripfag
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>>8229537
Fucking kek
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http://www.complete-review.com/main/main.html
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>>8229439
>Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

This is aimed at teenagers; is the rest of the list also shit?
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>>8229737
>;
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>>8229746
calm down; there are no rules on the Internet tho
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>>8229776
;)
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>>8229509
drop trip and leave the board, please

thanks
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>>8229211
Behead All Satans
Yurope and Yuope 2
The Magnificent Third Rail
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Harry Potter
Twilight
Hunger Games
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>>8229737
Some of it isn't, but it's by and large a blatant attempt to give credibility to the piece they're shilling by mixing it with the names of authors who are in a completely different category of popularity, and (in that poster's mind) respected.
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>>8229863
no
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The Vinci Codes - Dan Brown
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>>8229439
1q84 was fucking cringe-inducing. it was for redditors/normalfags.

murakami ripped off Conan Doyle's ONE-TIME usage of "nook and cranny" and used it ad nauseam
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