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Modern Literature, Give or Take a Few - Page 4

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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Blood and Guts in High School (Kathy Acker)
Blood and Guts in High School
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Kathy Acker
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro
The Bone People (Keri Hulme)
The Bone People
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Keri Hulme
Train to Pakistan (Khushwant Singh)
Train to Pakistan
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Khushwant Singh
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
Lonesome Dove
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Larry McMurtry
The Death of a Beekeeper (Lars Gustafsson)
The Death of a Beekeeper
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Satantango (László Krasznahorkai)
Satantango
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László Krasznahorkai
Dear Shameless Death (Latife Tekin)
Dear Shameless Death
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The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
The Alexandria Quartet
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Divine Days (Leon Forrest)
Divine Days
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Leon Forrest
Summer in Baden-Baden (Leonid Tsypkin)
Summer in Baden-Baden
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Leonid Tsypkin
The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington)
The Hearing Trumpet
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Stone Butch Blues (Leslie Feinberg)
Stone Butch Blues
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Leslie Feinberg
Almanac of the Dead (Leslie Marmon Silko)
Almanac of the Dead
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Leslie Marmon Silko
The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories (Li Ang)
The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories
135
Li Ang
Mean Spirit (Linda Hogan)
Mean Spirit
136
Linda Hogan
Tracks (Louise Erdrich)
Tracks
137
Louise Erdrich
The Time: Night (Ludmilla Petrushevskaya)
The Time: Night
138
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Sofia Petrovna (Lydia Chukovskaya)
Sofia Petrovna
139
Lydia Chukovskaya
The Door (Magda Szabó)
The Door
140
Magda Szabó
Missing Soluch (Mahmoud Dowlatabadi)
Missing Soluch
141
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
142
Margaret Atwood
The Lover (Marguerite Duras, Trans. Barbara Bray)
The Lover
143
Marguerite Duras, Trans. Barbara Bray
The Ten Thousand Things (Maria Dermoût)
The Ten Thousand Things
144
Maria Dermoût
So Long a Letter (Mariama Bâ)
So Long a Letter
145
Mariama Bâ
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
Housekeeping
146
Marilynne Robinson
War of the End of the World (Mario Vargas Llosa)
War of the End of the World
147
Mario Vargas Llosa
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves
148
Mark Z. Danielewski
The Wall (Marlen Haushofer)
The Wall
149
Marlen Haushofer
Time's Arrow (Martin Amis)
Time's Arrow
150
Martin Amis
The King Must Die (Mary Renault)
The King Must Die
151
Mary Renault
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Maryse Condé)
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
152
Maryse Condé
Man in the Holocene (Max Frisch)
Man in the Holocene
153
Max Frisch
Nampally Road (Meena Alexander)
Nampally Road
154
Meena Alexander
The Time of the Doves (Mercè Rodoreda)
The Time of the Doves
155
Mercè Rodoreda
Death and the Dervish (Meša Selimović)
Death and the Dervish
156
Meša Selimović
The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
The Neverending Story
157
Michael Ende
Friday (Michel Tournier)
Friday
158
Michel Tournier
Three Apples Fell From Heaven (Micheline Aharonian Marcom)
Three Apples Fell From Heaven
159
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
160
Mikhail Bulgakov
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