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Modern Literature, Give or Take a Few - Page 3

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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Great Fire of London: A Story With Interpolations and Bifurcations (Jacques Roubaud)
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At the Bottom of the River (Jamaica Kincaid)
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Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
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The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy)
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (James Tiptree, Jr.)
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The Heartsong of Charging Elk (James Welch)
The Heartsong of Charging Elk
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At Swim, Two Boys (Jamie O'Neill)
At Swim, Two Boys
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Jamie O'Neill
Desert of the Heart (Jane Rule)
Desert of the Heart
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Jane Rule
The Greenlanders (Jane Smiley)
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Faces in the Water (Janet Frame)
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The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Janice Galloway)
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A Heart So White (Javier Marias)
A Heart So White
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Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea
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Dogeaters (Jessica Hagedorn)
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The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
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The Collector (John Fowles)
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A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Jorge Amado)
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
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Jorge Amado
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
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The Obscene Bird of Night (José Donoso)
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Blindness (José Saramago)
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Women and Men (Joseph McElroy)
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Obasan (Joy Kogawa)
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When the Emperor Was Divine (Julie Otsuka)
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