I am looking for modern classics written after 1970. by TheInfiniteLake Related: A memoir you read that led you to dislike the author? Something that will break me in two (not trauma porn though) Suggest me an adult fantasy book with enemies-to-lovers trope? The Haj – Uris Help finding a good book for a gift
ReddisaurusRex on October 8, 2023 12:52 am Lonesome Dove Prince of Tides The Brothers K (by David James Duncan not Dostoyevsky)
J_M_Bee on October 8, 2023 3:04 am *Disgrace* – Coetzee *Waiting for the Barbarians* – Coetzee *Cat’s Eye* – Margaret Atwood *The Handmaid’s Tale* – Margaret Atwood *My Struggle (Vol. 1)* – Knausgaard *Kiss of the Spiderwoman* – Puig *Love in the Time of Cholera* – Marquez *A Bend in the River* – Naipaul *In a Free State* – Naipaul Good discussion on this point in the below. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/oct/08/fiction.features1](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/oct/08/fiction.features1)
Dazzling-Ad4701 on October 8, 2023 4:06 am famous last words by Timothy Findley the line of beauty by Alan Hollinghurst breaking smith’s quarter horse by Paul St Pierre reservation blues by Sherman Alexie falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
Obvious-Band-1149 on October 8, 2023 4:42 am The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald White Teeth by Zadie Smith Blindness by Jose Saramago A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
garthastro on October 8, 2023 4:54 am Song of Solomon and Beloved by Toni Morrison Roots by Alex Haley The Shining by Stephen King The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
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Lonesome Dove
Prince of Tides
The Brothers K (by David James Duncan not Dostoyevsky)
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Beloved
*Disgrace* – Coetzee
*Waiting for the Barbarians* – Coetzee
*Cat’s Eye* – Margaret Atwood
*The Handmaid’s Tale* – Margaret Atwood
*My Struggle (Vol. 1)* – Knausgaard
*Kiss of the Spiderwoman* – Puig
*Love in the Time of Cholera* – Marquez
*A Bend in the River* – Naipaul
*In a Free State* – Naipaul
Good discussion on this point in the below.
[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/oct/08/fiction.features1](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/oct/08/fiction.features1)
famous last words by Timothy Findley
the line of beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
breaking smith’s quarter horse by Paul St Pierre
reservation blues by Sherman Alexie
falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Blindness by Jose Saramago
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
Song of Solomon and Beloved by Toni Morrison
Roots by Alex Haley
The Shining by Stephen King
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
*Watership Down* by Richard Adams
The Remains of the Day
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson.