What are your favorite books of the decade so far?
The only thing I've read and enjoyed that was published in the last five years was Marlon James's Brief History, and I only lucked out with that after buying it for a stupid reason.
Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life tore me apart.
As did The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.
>>8214887
>Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life
Seconded, but I don't think the average 4chan user would like it or take it seriously.
Zone - Mathias Enard
I was going to post a few more books but I realized you meant 2010s, not the last ten years.
Holy Cow was pretty bad.
Anyone read Fates and Furies? How was it? Just got that and Graveyard Clay (the first English translation was last year but it was written long before).
>>8214883
The Vegetarian by Han King was unsettling in the best possible ways, Paul Beatty's The Sellout was excellent satire, Nell Zink's Mislaid was interesting but The Wallcreeper was a very strong little novel.
I feel like alot of the pomo fans on /lit/ might appreciate Valeria Luiselli's Story of My Teeth, and Mark Leyner's Gone With the Mind was really good too.
Haven't read Knausgard yet, but I feel like his work is going to be one of the most memorable landmarks of contemporary literature.
Art of Fielding probably
Chad Harbach seems to me almost a remnant of a recently deceased era of literature in which people knew what they were talking about and were well read
>>8215015
never seen this mentioned here but I really enjoyed it
>>8215112
NICOTINE (Ecco/4thEstate 10/16), PRIVATE NOVELIST (Ecco 10/16),
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2016/06/24/a-double-dose-of-nicotine-on-the-horizon/
Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers was wonderful. DeLillo went on a couple of book tours with her earlier this year.
Anyone here read Middle C by Gass? Thinking about picking it up. I've only read In The Heart of The Heart of The Country by him and liked it. Gonna start Omensetter's Luck soon.
>>8215005
Currently halfway through the fifth Knausgaard. It definitely is. Don't listen to the haters.
>>8214908
Why is that?
I have not read a lot from this decade really. The Gospel of The Flying Spaghetti Monster (2006)
>of the decade
>published in the last five years
I'm confused, but if it's last five years it would be 100 year old man climbed out window disappeared. Writing is decent, story is funny and intriguing enough.
>>8215188
Finishing #2. It's quite good and timeless. Amazing prose and will serve as an accurate description of our times.
However, the best novel of the 21st century so far is On The Edge by Rafael Chirbes.
>>8215123
Kushner wrote a really interesting story for the New Yorker about life in a prison, link below:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/30/fifty-seven
I usually dislike The New Yorker's trademark 'slice-of-life' fiction, but I except this particular story for the visceral force of her prose.
>>8214883
To think of how many /lit/ browsers will unironically avoid James because of his race is upsetting.
>>8215309
i've heard it referred to as 'misery porn'--/lit/ might think it's too sappy. but also most /lit/ posters just endlessly circlejerk the classics, so what do they know.
>>8215961
>cars streaming toward him with their blinding lights, like a video game where the enemies come right at you, motherfuckers just keep coming straight at you one after the other, bam bam bam.
How did this make it into the New Yorker?
>Kushner
Ah
>>8215861
>the best novel of the 21st century so far is On The Edge by Rafael Chirbes.
and if anybody wants it in the original spanish, link is right here
https://www.epublibre.org/libro/detalle/3977
>>8214883
There is no stupid reason for reading BHo7K. One if the best books if the century so far.
Haven't read this book but I keep hearing about it. What is it like and what does it do well in particular?
>>8217483
Its a "tour-de-force"stupid phrasecrime saga with some really crazy villains. It is set up like a GRRM novel, ie every chapter is from a different characters point of view. It keeps your attention the entire time.
What makes it really special is that the author writes in a different style for each character which really draws you into the different personalities.
>>8215984
>i've heard it referred to as 'misery porn'--/lit/ might think it's too sappy. but also most /lit/ posters just endlessly circlejerk the classics, so what do they know.
Its misery porn because the author spends 600 of the 750 pages twisting a knife in Jude's stomach, causing him to make his friends and family suffer, and then has the gall to actually suggest he shouldnt killself when every day is abject suffering for him.
>>8217486
ugh
>>8217500
That sounds terrible.
>>8217531
>>8217540
This is why I never read non-whites.
You people need the redpill
>>8217540
This excerpt doesn't particularly make me want to read the book.
>>8215961
I've just been really frustrated with black people lately. It makes it hard for me to give them a fair shot. I think when push came to shove even the smart ones would side with the BLM trash over their actual peers ie white middle class people. IDK I like Octavia Butler and she's pretty much the opposite of what the majority of /lit/ looks for in an author (black, female, genreshit)
>>8215988
Apparently it's a cornucopia of ethnic, sexual, and gender minorities. Everyone's either gay, trans, or mentally ill. Everyone hooks up. I've read a lot of bad reviews of it that have removed any desire I once had to read it. Even the cover is terrible, it looks like a guy having a hard shit.
>>8217505
not debating that it's misery porn, but it made me feel a lot of things, and that's the purpose of literature.
>>8217546
>redpill
Kill you are self to be honest, family.
That being said, that was Wardine be cry-level shit, and it being authentic didn't make it any better.
>>8217602
No one is trans in A Little Life
Literally the three not evil gay characters (one is 'only' gay for one person) die young
Only two of the main characters hook up afaik
I don't like A Little Life even, but not for those reasons (well I do think it's insulting to gay men, but opinions on that may vary).
Also no one cares abut your insecure neurosis involving race. sage
