I'll start with an obvious one
Best books of since 2000
>u cannot predict an unexpected fing. you cannot even predict that you cannot predict unexpected fing
yeah thanks a bunch Nassim
he pronounces it 'ting'
Middle C by Gass
2666 by Bolano
Against the Day by Pynchon
Seiobo There Below by Krasznahorkai
Austerlitz by Sebald
Animal Money by Cisco
Cow Country by Pearson
The Combinations by Armand
Novel Explosives by Gauer
Witz by Cohen
Europe Central and the Dying Grass by Vollman
Anything by Evan Dara
Laura Warholic by Theroux
A Naked Singularity by Pava
Terra Nostra by Volpi
The list goes on and on. The notion on this board that somehow good books stopped being published after 2000 is pants on head retarded. I suspect many of these will be considered classics in the future
>Austerlitz by Sebald
Special points for this one. Sebald is one of those "Why isn't this Veeky Forumscore?" authors.
The Emigrants is the best book I've read this year so far; Sebald for president
It's obvious once he explains it to you, but it's not obvious to everyone, especially the people who should know better.
I'm just waiting for that one Bleeding Edge shill to come derail this thread.
See I enjoyed these much less than Rings of Saturn.
200 years together
>pants on head retarded
some fag named james says this
terra nostra by volpi?
*Blocks ur shota-core oeuvre*
Seiobo There Below -- Laszlo Krasznahorkai
When Europe Begins - Tawada Yoko
Dublinesque - Enrique Vila-Matas
Middle C - William Gass
Moving Parts - Magdalena Tulli
Fragments of Lichtenberg - Pierre Senges
In the Night of Time - Antonio Muñoz Molina
huh, never heard of this one by man before
Anything on the New York Times best selling list. I have no idea why people here waste their time reading obscure books that are only popular here because they are obscure, when instead you could be reading material that automatically makes you smarter than the rest of the population.
"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is life changing. "Homo Deus", the spiritual sequel, is probably going to be just as good when I get around to it.
"Originals" by Adam Grant.
"The Association of Small Bombs" by Karan Mahajan.
>Terra Nostra by Volpi
You mean Fuentes?
Add
>War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Honestly I thought both Homo Deus and its predecessor were books that desperately tried to seem pregnant with importance despite being utterly barren and devoid of it. They just didnt add anything that hadn't been said before by other authors who were smarter except this guy had the bonus of lacking original thought to go with it.
You are missing:
On the edge, by Rafael Chirbes
The pale king, by David Foster Wallace
The feast of the goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Kite Runner
What's it about?
>David Foster Wallace
lmao
How has no one read this?
It's like Gaddis meets The Wire.
RoS was very good, but I personally thought Emigrants was even better; haven't read Austerlitz yet tho, but it's on my list
Thanks for the rec, man.
Knausgård
Is there a chart? Should we do one?
Best book from the arab world at least.
i liked the buried giant
We could do one but no one here actually reads
My suggestions
>Death by water by Oe
me too
Aprender a rezar na era da tecnica by Gonçalo m Tavares
this
Redpill me on Volpi, I always see him mentioned as a friend and contemporary to authors I like. What does he write? What so good about Terra Nostra?
because I can never find it in stores and I hate ordering from Amazon. I have his other on Personae.
The kingkiller chronicles
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Cannonball by Joe McElroy
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
The Dying Grass
please do
Anyone can make a poll and all that?
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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt is amazing. Go get it now! You will not be disappointed.
Where tf is The Buried Giant you uneducated swines?
Kazuo Ishiguro is the new Marquez.
see