MODERN LIT THREAD
talk about what's new, what's good, what's not popular but should be.
I want some suggestions on hidden 21st Century gold, every time I go to a book store all I see are shitty teen fictions copying divergent and hunger games success or shitty fantasy copying Game of thrones
My Struggle - Knausgaard
Neapolitan Novels - Ferrante
Your Face Tomorrow - Marias
The Map and the Territory - Houellebecq
The Roving Shadows - Quignard
>>7584950
shit taste
>>7584957
What do you recommend?
>>7584938
Just read "The Moor's Account" by Laila Lalami.
Pretty solid as far as historical fiction goes, and pretty short, I knocked it out in two days. Pulitzer Fiction and Man Booker finalist.
Also, Soumission and Brief History of Seven Killings were great.
>>7584950
Is My Struggle just a scandinavian whining? Is there any action?
>>7584950
Houellebecq is overrated right wing trash, and not even the good kind
Mother of Hydrogen by Vinay Gupta. It's not edited yet, but it's worth reading anyway. Magic without actual magic, set a bit in the future
Hexayurt.com/novel
>>7584967
Soumission was pretty funny, and had some legit political suspense to it.
That said, he is a bit of an alarmist, like how he has white women suddenly dressing modestly and public schools become muslim the second a muslim gets a majority in a parliament
>>7584970
pls dont' advertise your novel on /lit/
>>7584975
yeah I think that's the main problem I had with it, too much sensationalisation of false facts detracting from the humour
>>7584938
I am very upset by the fact that Pynchon is more famous than Gass.
>>7585007
Is The Tunnel a postmodern wall of prose to untangle ala Joyce/Pynchon
anyone got some good heist novels to read? I literally can't find any in the market. and I've already been tricked a fair bit of times by books that advertise "thieves" only for it to be your typical damsel in distress novel
Sorry for the poor quality, but does this answer your question?
>>7585029
Is that Gass? If so, ha.
>>7585034
Yes. Page 25 of The Tunnel. Gass is Joyce's successor, but no one has heard of him.
>>7584976
It's not mine. I just like it so much I feel motherly instincts towards it and want everyone to love it as much as i do waaaaah even the author doesn't care enough to edit and get it published, I asked him on Twitter
