If you’ve read (and reread) the classics for a long time, but don’t know which modern ones to choose, this ball is for you. We are talking about the books that will take their place on the shelves in a few years, together with the classics.
Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
This novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014, and a movie starring Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman was released based on it in 2019. This is a story about a 13-year-old man who wakes up after an explosion in a museum and receives a ring and a rare painting of Karel Fabritius (called “Goldfinch”) from a dying old man on order to get it. out of the museum. Now she has a hard way to recover from the resulting psychological trauma.
“Atonement” by Ian McEwan
The 2007 film adaptation of the same name, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, received seven Oscar nominations! Set against the backdrop of WWII, the story follows the daughter of a successful politician who falls in love with a gardener. True, the romance was not approved by the younger sister of the main character, and in order to get rid of her lover, she slanders him and is thrown in jail. Now, for the rest of his life, he will have to work for salvation. The ending will definitely surprise you.
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini
A novel about the incredible power of female solidarity. At the center of the conspiracy are two completely different women who would hardly have been friends if it had not been for the horrific events of the civil war in Afghanistan. In 2019, the BBC included this work in their list of the 100 most inspiring people!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
More than 16 million copies have been sold worldwide, and a movie adaptation, The Book Thief, was released in 2013! This story begins in 1939 in Nazi Germany and tells about a little girl living in an adoptive family (anti-fascist) and facing very childish problems.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The film adaptation of this novel won four Oscars, and the work itself received the Booker Prize in 2002. A philosophical adventure novel focusing on the zoo director’s son. The ship crashes when his family decides to move in with most of the animals, but the boy manages to escape. Ahead – 227 daily struggles for life.
Zuleikha opens her eyes, Beautiful Yakhina
An amazing novel that has been translated into almost 30 languages (including Persian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese). The action begins in 1930 in a Tatar village where the husband of an ordinary peasant woman is killed, and is sent, along with the others, to Siberia on a hard labor route.
“Little Life” by Chania Yanagihara
The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the US National Book Award and received critical acclaim. The book chronicles the lives of four friends, gradually shifting his focus to one of them, and the psychological trauma he experienced in childhood, breaking his faith in people.
“Normal People” by Sally Rooney
In 2020, a drama series of the same name was filmed based on this novel, the book’s author was named Jerome Salinger for millennials, and the work itself was included in the Booker Prize list. This is the story of two dissimilar men and a girl whose life is about to change in a short, awkward but very important conversation.
“White Teeth” by Zadie Smith
The author wrote this in his senior year at Cambridge University, and two years after its release, Channel 4 produced a TV series based on the novel. This is a story about friendship, love, war, three cultures, three families over three generations, and a very unusual… mouse! Time magazine included this book in its list of the best novels from 1923 to 2005, describing it as the first novel in the world to fully reflect our post-colonial, globalized world, where the boundaries between races and nations are blurred, even within families.
Utopia Beach by Tom Stoppard
A play about Russia in the 19th century with many characters from both domestic and foreign history, with Ivan Turgenev, Vissarion Belinsky, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Georg Herweg, Karl Marx and many more. One of the main themes of the trilogy is freedom, and the author himself spoke about his work: “The plays are written about people, about relationships, about how people fall in love, grow up, get married, die, leave their wives. what about husbands, turn to them… Games are not written about ideas. I fell in love with the characters.”
Map and Region Michel Houellebecq
French novel that won the Prix Goncourt. At the center of the plot are the drama of the modern world, where the human personality is slowly disappearing, and three interconnected key characters: one is fiction, the other is the author himself, and the third is Frederic. begbeder.
“The Incredible Private Life of Maxwell Sim” by Jonathan Coe
The main character is a classic loser who has no friends, his marriage is falling apart, his business is collapsing, and he has been clinically depressed for six months. His chance encounter with a foreign girl sets off a chain reaction of confessions and memories in his head that will lead him to a fantastical end. This is a story about loneliness in the age of social networks, which will definitely resonate with everyone.
“Children’s Book” by Antonia Byatt
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the novel tells the stories of several related families from 1895 to the end of the First World War. And although at first the life of the heroes seems perfect, then it turns out that the life of any family is much more complicated than it seems at first glance. There are many characters and microplots here, and fairy tale motifs are intertwined with the main ideas of the century.
City of Women, Elizabeth Gilbert
Sunday Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction, Audie Fiction Award nominee. This is a love story set in 1940s New York. The story is told through the eyes of an old woman who looks back at her past youth.
Gilead, Marilyn Robinson
This novel won the Pulitzer Prize, and Barack Obama called it one of his favorite books. “Gilead” is a collection of letters written by a dying priest to his son, condensing all the wisdom a father wishes to convey to his son.
The Short Fantasy Life of Oscar Wow by Juno Diaz
At the center of the plot is a Dominican boy who is a sci-fi and comic book lover and faces all the challenges of growing up. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and also won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
“Time Last Laughs” by Jennifer Egan
Pulitzer Prize Winner! The protagonists of the novel cannot overcome their desire for self-destruction and self-indulgence, and each chapter is presented as a standalone story about growing up, terrible mistakes, and also life’s trials in the music industry.
Source: People Talk
