what are some of the best novels in most recent years.
Asking for a friend
what are some of the best novels in most recent years.
Asking for a friend
parallel stories
the nix
the instructions
witz
cannonball
the dying grass
a little life
lincoln in the bardo
middle c
agape agape
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Spook Country by William Gibson
The Road
theMystery.doc
Preparation for the Next Life
The Lost Scrapbook (fuck you)
A time for everything by Knausgård
The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq
The Slynx, Tatiana Tolstaya
Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich
Not technically in the last 17 years, but the last volumes of The Red Wheel are FINALLY being translated
Train Dreams
The Wondrous Brief life of Oscar Wao.
Perfect 4 Veeky Forums.
That book was ass
On the edge by Rafael Chirbes
Loved Agape Agape. Are any of the other ones better?
Turtles All the Way Down
my diary desu
Is Bleeding Edge really good? I only ever see it criticized for not equaling his earlier work, it seems.
Death by water by Oe
Embassytown by Mieville if you like genrefic
kalle knaus - min kamp
I really liked The Nix but I also thought the ending was somewhat shitty. It also went on a little long.
House of Leaves
Going Native by Stephen Wright
Oh man, The Slynx was hot garbage. I bailed about 2/3 through.
I liked 'The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril'.
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lol heck no. The only good parts were the footnotes and some of the second part. Bad overall.
The Corrections
it's breddy gud
>tfw you'll never look at your demon masks across the hallway reflected in a mirror
oh shit is this really in the novel? i kinda want to read it just to see how weird it gets
It was good. Not incredible but people saying it was bad are exaggerating
Yes.
I'm enjoying The Familiar too, havent snagged Vol. 5 tho. I wonder if hes gunna get away with doing 26 volumes haha.
>is this really in the novel?
yep
this is fucking hilarious
PALE KING, UH HUH
The Road
A Brief History of Seven Killings
I don't know who else, I really don't read much contemporary stuff
Isn't this that pynchon book that's basically ready player 1?
out stealing horses by per petterson
2666
Margaret Atwood (Canada, 1939): "The Blind Assassin" (2000)
Zadie Smith (Britain, 1975): "White Teeth" (2000)
Jeroen Brouwers (Holland, 1940): "Geheime Kamers" (2000)
Leonard Oprea (Romania, 1953): "Cele Noua Invataturi ale lui Theophil Magus despre Magia Transilvana/ The Nine Teachings Of Theophil Magus On Transylvanian Magic" (2000)
Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Atonement" (2001)
Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944): "Cette Aveuglante Absence de Lumiere/ This Blinding Absence of Light" (2001)
Lars-Saabye Christensen (Norway, 1953): "Halvbroren/ The Half Brother" (2001)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Russia, 1946): "The Kukotsky Case" (2001)
Yann Martel (Canada, 1963): "Life of Pi" (2002)
Elena Ferrante (1943?): "I Giorni dell'Abbandono/ The Days of Abandonment" (2002)
Mai Jia/ Jiang Benhu (China, 1964): "Jiemi/ Decoded" (2002)
Zyranna Zateli (1951): "With the Strange Name of Ramanthis Erevus Death Arrived Last" (2002)
Jhumpa Lahiri (USA, 1967): "The Namesake" (2003)
Roberto Bolano (Chile, 1953): "2666" (2003)
Jeffrey Eugenides (USA, 1960): "Middlesex" (2003)
David Mitchell (Britain, 1969): "Cloud Atlas" (2004)
Edward Jones (USA, 1950): "The Known World" (2004)
Marilynne Robinson (USA, 1943): "Gilead" (2004)
Michel Houellebecq (1958): "Les Particules Elementaires/ Elementary Particles" (2004)
Javier Marias (Spain, 1951): "Tu Rostro Manana/ Your Face Tomorrow" (2007)
Han Kang (Korea, 1970): "The Vegetarian" (2007)
Paolo Giordano (1982): "La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi" (2008)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Russia, 1938): "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby" (2009)
Maylis de Kerangal (1967): "Naissance d'un Pont Birth of a Bridge" (2010)
Karl-Ove Knausgard (Norway, 1968): "Min Kamp/ My Struggle" (2011)
Jennifer Egan (USA, 1952): "A Visit from the Goon Squad" (2011)
Juan Vasquez (Colombia, 1973): "El Ruido de las Cosas al Caer/ The Sound of Things Falling" (2011)
Louise Erdrich (USA, 1954): "The Round House" (2012)
Donna Tartt (USA, 1964): "The Goldfinch" (2013)
Kamel Daoud (1970): "Meursault contre-enquete/ The Meursault Investigation" (2013)
Rafael Chirbes (Spain, 1949): "En la Orilla/ On the Edge" (2013)
Gilead
Austerlitz
Min Kamp
Matterhorn
Book of Night Women
We the Drowned
Wizard of the Crow
2666
Austerlitz
Sandalwood Death
The Feast of the Goat
Brief History of Seven Killings
Laurus
Eileen
The Buried Giant
the Book of Numbers
Dying Grass
The Sellout
The Vegetarian
On the Edge
Submission
A Little Life
Age of Iron
The Moor's Account
The Dream of the Celt
Brief History of Seven Killings
The Neapolitan Novels
We the Drowned
Wolf Hall
The Corpse Exhibition
The Devil all the Time
Book of NIght Women
Red April
"Leaving the Atocha Station" and "10:04", both by Ben Lerner.
Did austerlitz come out after 2000 was it just the translation?
h-hi piero