Which books do you think that have been release in recent years (2010 onwards) are going to be considered classics 50 years from now?
Which contemporary books have such high literary value that they might be considered classics and maybe taught in schools and colleges as a part of curriculum.
Some of them are going to be the books that reader or not, everyone has heard of them.
Controversial or not all kinds of books.
by Euphoric-Metal
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*Solenoid* by Cartarescu. Will be remembered as emblematic of the pessimism, grayscale, and escapism of the era.
One serious challenge modern books will face on the road to future classicdom: In the past there was a more limited number of books that were taught in schools and pushed in the culture (on the basis of their writing quality, message, entertainment value, and deemed cultural relevancy—decent criteria, though the last especially has excluded some that shouldn’t have been); now there is much more diversity in what a teacher might have you read (in part because more people are writing, in part because society is less homogeneous, in part because we now champion diversity, choice, and preference in all things to a degree we did not in the past). As such, any book will have a harder time remaining well known in the years long after its initial release. Not that nothing will break through—but I suspect it’s now a different game.