s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?

[Anonymous]

Shuggie Bain. It won the Booker Prize, it's beautifully written, and the theme of growing up with an addicted parent will, unfortunately, continue to be relevant.

I agree with the suggestion of anything by Claire Keegan. I think she'd fit really nicely on many an English lit syllabus. Also, she demonstrates that you can write vividly without blathering on for 800 pages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Agree with this, also add:
Empire Falls

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Anonymous wrote:Homegoing. A Fine Balance.

I was going to mention both these books. A Fine Balance really stayed with me and I thought about that book for a long time.

A Fine Balance 100%. I’m surprised it’s not talked about more on this site. Absolutely amazing.

Agreed, but it’s not from this century!

[Anonymous]

A Gentleman in Moscow read like a classic IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If A Little Life has no haters, I’m dead. I passionately hate that fckn book.

Don’t worry; I hate it too.

[Anonymous]

White Teeth

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Anonymous wrote:Homegoing. A Fine Balance.

I was going to mention both these books. A Fine Balance really stayed with me and I thought about that book for a long time.

A Fine Balance 100%. I’m surprised it’s not talked about more on this site. Absolutely amazing.

Agreed, but it’s not from this century!

Eh it’s just 5 years. Can’t we squeeze it in?? 😂😂

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If A Little Life has no haters, I’m dead. I passionately hate that fckn book.

Don’t worry; I hate it too.

It has been sitting half-read on my nightstand for three months. I just can't get motivated to finish it...

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:If A Little Life has no haters, I’m dead. I passionately hate that fckn book.

Don’t worry; I hate it too.

It has been sitting half-read on my nightstand for three months. I just can't get motivated to finish it...

Previous hater here: I liked the first half much better than the second half!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If A Little Life has no haters, I’m dead. I passionately hate that fckn book.

There is no universally loved book - even a classic!

[Anonymous]

Not a specific book, but I think Kazuo Ishiguro’s body of work makes him a “new classic” author.

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Anonymous wrote:If A Little Life has no haters, I’m dead. I passionately hate that fckn book.

Don’t worry; I hate it too.

It’s so overwritten, too. But there was something particularly distressing about it. It felt performative, like a contest to inflict maximum pain on a gay male character. At some point it feels exploitative.

[Anonymous]

There There by Tommy Orange

On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong

All the Light We Cannot See Tony Doer

Sing Unburied Sing Jesmyn Ward

White Teeth Zaide Smith

Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders

[Anonymous]

The NYT has compiled their best books from 2000 on. I was struck by how how “meh” I felt by them even if I liked them at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a specific book, but I think Kazuo Ishiguro’s body of work makes him a “new classic” author.

Yes. He won the Nobel Prize l, too. Alice Munro is another winner who I think will be a new classic.