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

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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.

It’s torture porn.

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Hunger Games--I can see that being assigned in HS English classes. So many relevant themes about the nature of a just war.

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Anonymous wrote:Already mentioned, but what comes to mind for me-

Middlesex
Never Let Me Go
Corrections

Agreed

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Anonymous wrote:omg none of those listed above. You guys are reading absolute trash. go back to the classics and stop wasting your brains

🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Demon Copperhead
Pachinko

Maybe:
The Hour I First Believed
Middlesex

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Anonymous wrote:Hunger Games--I can see that being assigned in HS English classes. So many relevant themes about the nature of a just war.

It’s already used a lot in dystopian novel units.

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Both short story collections by Ted Chiang

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I just picked up two books:

Lucy Ellman, Ducks, Newburyport
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:omg none of those listed above. You guys are reading absolute trash. go back to the classics and stop wasting your brains

Any suggestions?

DP but 19th century British Classic literature for starters: all of Trollope, Brontë Sisters, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Thackeray, Jane Austen. Then move on to Zoya and Balzac. I wish I wasn’t stuck in eternal reread mode.

You are off topic. Can't believe you call yourself a reader.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprise for all those votes for Life of Pi. I thought it was good but not a classic really. My kid is reading it in HS English though.

What about Jonathan Strange and Mr Norre? I really liked that when I read it.

This is also a little off topic, but can anyone tell me which of the suggested books are least depressing? I’ve had to swear off a lot of real literature because it really affects my mood. It’s like seasonal affective disorder but with literature. So I am constantly looking for good fiction that is not filled with rape, death of children, generally morose characters, etc.

PP’s comment about the Poisonwood Bible….i loved the first half of it. I was so gutted by the end part that I had to give up reading for a while afterward. So I haven’t dared reading her new one!

I agree with you on Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. The writing is excellent.

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Normal People, Sally Rooney
Percival Everett (not sure which one he will be most known for)
Agree with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell and The Goldfinch

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I haven't seen Sebastian Barry mentioned. I think he will enter the cannon.
Neal Stephenson is another contender. Seven Eves was my personal favorite but others may disagree.