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Modern Literature, Give or Take a Few

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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Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession
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A.S. Byatt
Cities of Salt (Abdul Rahman Munif)
Cities of Salt
2
Abdul Rahman Munif
The Notebook, the Proof, the Third Lie: Three Novels (Ágota Kristóf)
The Notebook, the Proof, the Third Lie: Three Novels
3
Ágota Kristóf
Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura)
Shipwrecks
4
Akira Yoshimura
Astragal (Albertine Sarrazin)
Astragal
5
Albertine Sarrazin
Island (Aldous Huxley)
Island
6
Aldous Huxley
Roots (Alex Haley)
Roots
7
Alex Haley
Edinburgh (Alexander Chee)
Edinburgh
8
Alexander Chee
Darconville's Cat (Alexander Theroux)
Darconville's Cat
9
Alexander Theroux
Selected Stories (Alice Munro)
Selected Stories
10
Alice Munro
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
11
Alice Walker
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (Álvaro Mutis)
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
12
Álvaro Mutis
The Mixquiahuala Letters (Ana Castillo)
The Mixquiahuala Letters
13
Ana Castillo
The Last of the Just (André Schwarz-Bart)
The Last of the Just
14
André Schwarz-Bart
Ship Fever: Stories (Andrea Barrett)
Ship Fever: Stories
15
Andrea Barrett
The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber
16
Angela Carter
Kalpa Imperial (Angélica Gorodischer)
Kalpa Imperial
17
Angélica Gorodischer
Ice (Anna Kavan)
Ice
18
Anna Kavan
Autobiography of Red (Anne Carson)
Autobiography of Red
19
Anne Carson
Sphinx (Anne Garreta)
Sphinx
20
Anne Garreta
Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)
Fugitive Pieces
21
Anne Michaels
Brokeback Mountain (Annie Proulx)
Brokeback Mountain
22
Annie Proulx
Pereira Declares: A Testimony (Antonio Tabucchi)
Pereira Declares: A Testimony
23
Antonio Tabucchi
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
2001: A Space Odyssey
24
Arthur C. Clarke
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things
25
Arundhati Roy
Sunlight on a Broken Column (Attia Hosain)
Sunlight on a Broken Column
26
Attia Hosain
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Ayi Kwei Armah)
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
27
Ayi Kwei Armah
Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
Kitchen
28
Banana Yoshimoto
The Sorrow of War (Bảo Ninh)
The Sorrow of War
29
Bảo Ninh
Sacred Hunger (Barry Unsworth)
Sacred Hunger
30
Barry Unsworth
Maru (Bessie Head)
Maru
31
Bessie Head
The Garden of the Departed Cats (Bilge Karasu)
The Garden of the Departed Cats
32
Bilge Karasu
Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal)
Too Loud a Solitude
33
Bohumil Hrabal
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Brian Moore)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
34
Brian Moore
Defiance (Carole Maso)
Defiance
35
Carole Maso
Rituals (Cees Nooteboom)
Rituals
36
Cees Nooteboom
A Gesture Life (Chang-Rae Lee)
A Gesture Life
37
Chang-Rae Lee
The Quest for Christa T. (Christa Wolf)
The Quest for Christa T.
38
Christa Wolf
The Passion According to G.H. (Clarice Lispector)
The Passion According to G.H.
39
Clarice Lispector
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
40
Cormac McCarthy
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