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What's a good novel from the last 20 years? Genuine question. Looking back at everything I've read, it all has been older than that. I don't really pay attentio
by rererereferred 1y ago
What's a good novel from the last 20 years? Genuine question. Looking back at everything I've read, it all has been older than that. I don't really pay attention to novel news so it's more like I only read stuff I've heard about in the past.
- KaoruAoiShiho 1y agoI recommended a book in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181274
- CesareBorgia 1y agoThis is a great list: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueLit/comments/1fwciah/truelits_100_best_books_of_the_quarter_century/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueLit/comments/1fwciah/truelits_1...
- giraffe_lady 1y agoI am absolutely not trying to sustain the other commenter's claim that modern fiction is better lol. I also don't tend to stay on top of contemporary fiction, a lot of stuff gets hyped and well reviewed but just isn't that great. Or it had a lot of resonance for the specific time it was written that lessens as time passes. And of course the extreme selection bias, not all good books "survive" but most of the ones that do are good on at least some qualities. But there is definitely still excellent fiction being written now. The last sumurai by helen dewitt, or the gray house by mariam petrosyan I would place with the likes of middlemarch and anna karenina.
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