Where you look to find decent modern literature? Seriously, I made a legitimate effort and the results are always the same. See below, I sampled about 30 of the titles and all were women authors and, to my surprise, I found one written by a man and it's about AIDS in the 80's. No wonder men don't read.https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/james5053/viz/BestBooksPublishedin2025/BestBooksPublishedin2025
>>25312645I ask ChatGPT for book with some set of requirements
>>25312645pay attention to presses, not prizes. fitzcarraldo editions/new directions/nyrb/open letter -- once you find something you like from one of those, find out who influenced that writer/what other contemporary writers that writer likes and read those people>all were women authors and there's only one by a man and it's faggyat some point you'll grow out of "it da ebil wimminz n fags n sheit" and realize that women and fags are the only people who read
>>25312645>modern literature?Why would you bother? Have you read all previous literature?
Google is not a legitimate effort.
>>25313471Just want to measure the current state of literature.
>>25314002It’s grim anon. Stick with things that are old enough to be public domain.
>>25312645Modern refers to the 20th century.
I haven’t read a 21st century novel that isn’t YA like Percy Jackson
>>25312645>decent modern literature?Doesn't exist, and if it does, wasting the time to find it doesn't seem worth it unless you've read all the great pre-modern literature, which you certainly haven't.
>>25314059"Modern" and "post modern" were such retarded names for literary movements
>>25315592not wrong
>>25314059He didn't capitalise the word. You could say romantic literature and mean stories with romance in, instead of Romantic literature and be referring to Wordsworth, etc.
>>25315592What about post-post modern? Or pre-post modern?
