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

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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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harry Potter

That came out in the late 1990’s

[Anonymous]

Agree that atonement and life of pi are trash.

Liked goldfinch, never let me go, and the road.

Curious as to what ms/mr classicist recommends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harry Potter

That came out in the late 1990’s

Yes, but there are several (seven?) novels, and most of them were published after 2000.

[Anonymous]

Angelas Ashes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harry Potter

That came out in the late 1990’s

Yes, but there are several (seven?) novels, and most of them were published after 2000.

I'll change my answer to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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Kite runner (but I liked A Thousand splendid suns better)

A gentleman in Moscow

Parable of the sower/talents

Circe

Glass castle

Devil in the white city

The corrections

The secret history

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Guess it explains why you did not read the question.

[Anonymous]

Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind, A Wise Man’s Fear, and whatever the third book is, if he ever publishes it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The top of the Reddit thread mentions The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson, which I totally agree with.

I also loved Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Loved The Orphan Masters son.

[Anonymous]

Dutch House

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dutch House

Really disliked the book. Can’t picture anyone wanting to re-read it ever.

[Anonymous]

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow