21st century novels that are actually worth it. It’s been 25 years, there must have been something good.
Depressing image. Fuck knows. Harry Potter?
>>24694492Oh, come on. We both know Harry Potter doesn’t make it on the list.
>>24694488It feels like the eras died prematurely. Right at the cusp of the millennium you’d be looking for some next level man vs machine story about our life in the digital age. Then terrorism defined the next 10-15 years, paranoia and erosion of rights, spying. Man against government. Except that didn’t really hold water either. It just fizzled out. Man vs technology became a story about being bored because the pace of change slowed down. We’re in an alienation arc now possibly. Man against man. Trouble is they don’t seem to have enough sticking power.
The 21st century canon so far is pretty well established at this point at least in Anglo countries: Neopolitan novels, Wolf Hall trilogy, Adichie, Gilead novels, Ernaux, Strout, Fosse, Knausgard, Outline trilogy, Roth’s late stuff, The Road, Houllebecq (sp) True History of the Kelly Gang, Never Let me Go, Krasnakorskai (sp), The Argonauts
