My List (not in order): - The Vision by Tom King - Earthlings by Sayaka Murata - Tomorrow x3 by Gabrielle Zevine - Americanah by Chimamanda - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo - Panenka by Ronan Hession - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang - The Attic Child by Lola Jaye - Blankets by Craig Thompson - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Have you two read "Convenience Store Women"? Sayaka Murata hits a different pocket. Thought she would be similar to Mieko Kawakami, but god was I wrong.
My list: 1. Tress of the Emerald Sea 2. The Way of kings (stormlight archives series) 3. Lies of Locke Lamora (gentlemen bastards series) 4. ACOTAR 5. Poison wood Bible 6. The Martian 7. Strange the Dreamer 8. Deep Survival 9. Red Rising (series) 10. Zealot 11. The Pillars of the Earth (series) 12. Life of Pi
I am impressed you got through all 3 parts of The Three Body Problem. My adult son mentioned it, and I read it in order to talk to him about it. I took a bunch of notes. I found it very dry and challenging to get through. Maybe I should watch it in video to find out what happens.
It can definitely get a little dry but the scale and imaginative elements of it kept me super interested. The farther along the series gets the more out there it gets. I’m hoping the show can capture that same feeling once it gets to the later seasons.
I may be on my own when I say this but I think at least one of the hunger games books should be on a list of best books of the 21st century it is a young adult book I don’t think it takes away from the themes and it handles them fantastically and catching fire is exactly what a sequel should be it follows on the story perfectly and builds onto it amazingly I have read the book at least 5 times and watched the movie more times than I want to admit the series also launched the future dystopian ya books it might not of been the first but it made the genre very popular
That's a totally reasonable take honestly. Those books were significant in how they laid the groundwork for half a decade of storytelling in books AND in movies. And they're good, too!
First book on your list seems to be one of these that have something to say :) Reading books outside of the English language is almost all the books that I read
Both amazing books! I'm not sure what my favorite for 2024 will be yet but Babel is in strong contention. I just finished Shogun part one and am about to start Piranesi.
Most of these books are flat out poorly written and fail on so many levels artistically. I don't know if it's quite worse than the NYT list, but definitely not much better, and yet these books are also almost ALL self-important and pretentious in their own ways.
