What are the big books of the last 5 years?

ferrante

>>7818460
Middle C is the best novel of this century.

>>7818460
>America
>good
>Britain
>good
>Israel
>neutral
>Russia
>evil
>China
>evil

Triggered.

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K I l l I n g s

>>7818460
Neustadt Int
2010 Duo Duo
2012 Rohinton Mistry
2014 Mia Couto
2016 Dubravka Ugrešić

Man Booker
2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question
2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
2012 Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies
2013 Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
2014 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2015 Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings

Miguel Cervantes
2010 Ana María Matute
2012 José Manuel Caballero Bonald
2013 Elena Poniatowska
2014 Juan Goytisolo
2015 Fernando del Paso

Nobel Literature
Svetlana Alexievich 2015
Patrick Modiano 2014
Alice Munro 2013
Mo Yan 2012
Tomas Tranströmer 2011
Mario Vargas Llosa 2010

Franz Kafka
2015 Eduardo Mendoza
2014 Yan Lianke
2013 Amos Oz
2012 Daniela Hodrová
2011 John Banville
2010 Václav Havel
2009 Peter Handke

Not saying awards are the end-all (see /lit/ shitfits regarding nobel winners, although this years wrote some great fucking books) but starting here wouldnt be bad.

>>7818460
There was a top 20 of the 21st century survey on /lit/s favorites and these were the results:

01. 2666 - Bolaño
02. House of Leaves - Danielewski
03. The Road - McCarthy
04. My Struggle - Knausgård
05. Seiobo There Below - Krasznahorkai
06. Submission - Houellebecq
07. Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
08. Austerlitz - Sebald
09. The Corrections - Franzen
10. Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro
11. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Egan
12. A Brief History of Seven Killings - James
13. Europe Central - Vollmann
14. The Pale King - Wallace
15. Middle C - Gass
16. Inherent Vice - Pynchon
17. Taipei - Lin
18. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Díaz
19. The Map and the Territory - Houellebecq
20. Cloud Atlas - Mitchell

>>7818490
I just finished The Buried Giant and it definitely was better than Never Let Me Go.

I suspect most of /lit/ just hasnt read it yet.

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>>7818490

Hey, some really good books. I've most of them, though, sadly. Well, happily, but I can't read them for the first time again...sadly.

How is The Goldfinch? Looks good and long, which is nice. Should I be reading it?

>>7818490
List may be helpful for OP, but isn't representative of /lit/ considering it was made into a chart or some shit with under 50 votes iirc

>>7818516
That's a different one, the thread was kept up for a week after that to collect more sample size. That list is 300~ votes, but no one made a chart for it.

>>7818518
Oh, it turned out pretty similar from my memory. Shame no one made a chart for it.

>>7818460

Knausgård is pretty great.

Also, your chart was made by a total fucking idiot.

>>7818495
never let me go is papapapapap

>>7818657
I dont understand why it was so big, Remains of the Day>Buried Giant>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Unconsoled and Never Let Me Go. It was almost like a sentimentalist dystopia.

>>7818617

It really isn't. At best, charts are candy for middlebrow trash, at worst, they'll attract a literal million imgur users.

>>7818690
True. I don't understand why the mods don't just instantly delete chart threads anyway, their content is literally in the sticky.

>>7818460

>Israel: neutral

>America: good

wut?