I’m looking for your favorite literary fiction of the past 30-ish years, especially novels that explore family relationships, the nature of literature, and/or have unconventional narrative structures.
I love books like The Poisonwood Bible, Atonement, Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, and The Goldfinch. They’re all well-written and thought-provoking while still accessible (authors like Italo Calvino are a little TOO out there for me). I’d love recommendations for other books in this vein!
by IntoTheWorldOfNight
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The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes, the tsar of love and techno by Anthony marra
North Woods by Daniel Mason is great and a bit unconventional, with the setting as a through line over several decades of characters
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer is told in a different way
If you liked Cloud Atlas I recommend How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray is very family focused, as is The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese and Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro. My favorite family story is A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
I recognize most of these are pretty recent releases!!