Avoiding Contemporary Fiction 🤨
The Safekeep
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow
Yellowface - Rebecca F. Kuang
And
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Pictures of You by Jane Elmor, and Precipice by Robert Harris.
It's really hard to resist saying which is which :-)
I’m not your‘literary fiction’ gang so maybe you will toss my answer - Girl, Woman, Other (B Evaristo) The Midnight Library (M Haigh)
haha naaaaa... all writers welcome here. Just the literary fiction writers who tend to avoid contemporary fiction the hardest ;) thx for commenting.
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason
Tom Lake Anne Patchett
The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alex E. Harrow
Neuromancer — William Gibson (bit of a stretch, I know. )
Lessons Ian Mckewan
The Island of missing trees. Elif Shafak
My Beautiful Friend by Elena Ferrante (this one's a bit old, sorry!)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Young Mungo and lessons in chemistry
YOUNG MUNGO by Douglas Stuart
THE QUIET DEATH OF THOMAS QUAID by Craig Russell
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Milkman by Anna Burns
Disorientation - Elaine Hsieh Chou
(They're on the same topic, but I liked one better than the other. One had more heart and one was a half-hearted attempt.)
Orbital - Samantha Harvey; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich; Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.
The Safekeep
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow
Yellowface - Rebecca F. Kuang
And
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Pictures of You by Jane Elmor, and Precipice by Robert Harris.
It's really hard to resist saying which is which :-)
I’m not your‘literary fiction’ gang so maybe you will toss my answer - Girl, Woman, Other (B Evaristo) The Midnight Library (M Haigh)
haha naaaaa... all writers welcome here. Just the literary fiction writers who tend to avoid contemporary fiction the hardest ;) thx for commenting.
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason
Tom Lake Anne Patchett
The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alex E. Harrow
Neuromancer — William Gibson (bit of a stretch, I know. )
Lessons Ian Mckewan
The Island of missing trees. Elif Shafak
My Beautiful Friend by Elena Ferrante (this one's a bit old, sorry!)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Young Mungo and lessons in chemistry
YOUNG MUNGO by Douglas Stuart
THE QUIET DEATH OF THOMAS QUAID by Craig Russell
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Milkman by Anna Burns
Disorientation - Elaine Hsieh Chou
Yellowface - Rebecca F. Kuang
(They're on the same topic, but I liked one better than the other. One had more heart and one was a half-hearted attempt.)
Orbital - Samantha Harvey; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich; Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.