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Modern Literature, Give or Take a Few - Page 3

Riffing off a Book Riot list that sought to define modern classics that were published between 1950 and at least twenty years prior, which at the time of that list was 1997. I shunted the year range forward to 1955-2002 in an attempt to maintain the same sense of the list in the current year. Anyway, no guarantee that all of these are classics. Just a collection of works that I can either personally approve of or have heard good 'quality literature' things about.
P.S. The lovely individual in the list image is none other than the magnificent Arundhati Roy, for anyone who wants to know.
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
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The Last Samurai (Helen Dewitt)
The Last Samurai (Helen Dewitt)
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The Appointment (Herta Müller)
The Appointment (Herta Müller)
84
A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)
A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)
85
Fatelessness (Imre Kertész)
Fatelessness (Imre Kertész)
86
Malina (Ingeborg Bachmann)
Malina (Ingeborg Bachmann)
87
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
88
Babette's Feast (Isak Dinesen)
Babette's Feast (Isak Dinesen)
89
Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed)
Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed)
90
The Palace of Dreams (Ismael Kadare)
The Palace of Dreams (Ismael Kadare)
91
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
92
Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
93
Terra Amata (J.M.G. Le Clézio)
Terra Amata (J.M.G. Le Clézio)
94
Great Fire of London: A Story With Interpolations and Bifurcations (Jacques Roubaud)
Great Fire of London: A Story With Interpolations and Bifurcations (Jacques Roubaud)
95
At the Bottom of the River (Jamaica Kincaid)
At the Bottom of the River (Jamaica Kincaid)
96
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
97
The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy)
The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy)
98
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (James Tiptree, Jr.)
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (James Tiptree, Jr.)
99
The Heartsong of Charging Elk (James Welch)
The Heartsong of Charging Elk (James Welch)
100
At Swim, Two Boys (Jamie O'Neill)
At Swim, Two Boys (Jamie O'Neill)
101
Desert of the Heart (Jane Rule)
Desert of the Heart (Jane Rule)
102
The Greenlanders (Jane Smiley)
The Greenlanders (Jane Smiley)
103
Faces in the Water (Janet Frame)
Faces in the Water (Janet Frame)
104
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Janice Galloway)
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Janice Galloway)
105
A Heart So White (Javier Marias)
A Heart So White (Javier Marias)
106
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
107
Dogeaters (Jessica Hagedorn)
Dogeaters (Jessica Hagedorn)
108
The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
109
The Collector (John Fowles)
The Collector (John Fowles)
110
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
111
No-No Boy (John Okada)
No-No Boy (John Okada)
112
Stoner (John Williams)
Stoner (John Williams)
113
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Jorge Amado)
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Jorge Amado)
114
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
115
The Obscene Bird of Night (José Donoso)
The Obscene Bird of Night (José Donoso)
116
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness (José Saramago)
117
Women and Men (Joseph McElroy)
Women and Men (Joseph McElroy)
118
Obasan (Joy Kogawa)
Obasan (Joy Kogawa)
119
When the Emperor Was Divine (Julie Otsuka)
When the Emperor Was Divine (Julie Otsuka)
120
Drown (Junot Diaz)
Drown (Junot Diaz)
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