<p>that you believe will be classics? Let's stick to the 2000s...the 90s too, I guess.</p>
<p>What do you think? It's pretty difficult to say.</p>
<p>90s: Angela’s Ashes
2000s: Going Postal</p>
<p>Nah, but I don’t know. Those are just some of my favorite. Maybe Angela’s Ashes will get to the classics.</p>
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<li>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. </li>
<li>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. It won the Pulitzer Prize and is by far my favorite book.</li>
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<p>HARRY POTTER 
(I’m serious.)</p>
<p>And Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. It’s got some deep themes that fit in with Global Era great books.</p>
<p>Atonement
Possession
The Remains of the Day
Daughter of Fortune
Love in the Time of Cholera or some other Marquez</p>
<p>I’ve read all those books or books by all of those authors, with the exception of Allende. I didn’t like any of them. Especially the Ishiguro I read. Overall, I dislike contemporary novels :(.</p>
<p>^There must be some contemporary novels you like! :D</p>
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<p>Loved this book.</p>
<p>The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.</p>
<p>almost all of Margaret Atwood’s books are contemporary.</p>
<p>The Tree That Grows in Brooklyn. (not Margaret Atwood; can’t remember the author)</p>
<p>The Good Earth was written in 1931.</p>
<p>Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace; its a defining work of literature without doubt</p>
<p>Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Goldman
If that hadn’t been made into a movie, the book would’ve spoken for itself to the public. Bah, I hate books made into movies.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
^ CLASSIC. All the way. It’s relatively contemporary (written in the 1940s - comparatively it is…) I wish I knew French because I heard the descriptions are more vivid in the language it was originally written in.</p>
<p>^The Stranger is too old…I was talking about 90s and 00s. It’s already a book one reads in school.</p>
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<p>Perhaps without even knowing it, there are some you like, I’m sure.</p>
<p>I just read The Namesake in English class.</p>
<p>I think The Kite Runner will be one too. We’re already reading it in class.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I’ve read it. I actually like One Thousand Splendid Suns better.</p>
<p>I haven’t found one book I like made into a movie. Movie creators always switch things up so it’s different than what I had pictured originally. Part of reading is interpretation, so it just bothers me when folks don’t see it how I’d like it to be. </p>
<p>The best contemporary book I’ve read would have to be Slow Man by JM Coetzee, though.</p>
<p>^What I mean is that there are probably a ton of movies you have liked that were books you have never read.</p>
<p>Perhaps. That would waive the interpretation issue I have at least.</p>