Potential Classics?

[TurquoiseSunset]

Read any newly (lately) published books that you want to recommend? We talk a lot about classics on this forum, but it would be nice to know if there's anything new on the radar that might become a classic eventually. Tell us what and why you liked it. :)

[WymanChanning]

This is exact the question to which I always want to know the answer. Looking forward to it!

[Chris 73]

I keep boring people I know about Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. Gorgeous prose and an entirely engaging protagonist. Its got the feel of an almost mythic morality tale.

[TheFifthElement]

I could bang on about David Mitchell ad infinitum. His book Cloud Atlas surely has to be a future classic.

Equally, Remainder by Tom McCarthy is a really interesting book for the information age. Probably better to come by McCarthy (C is a really good book too).

Ali Smith also has big potential. She has a really interesting way of writing. I haven't read all of her work yet, but of those I have read Like is a stunning read. More style than substance (but Cormac McCarthy gets away with it, don't see why she shouldn't) but interesting and a very beautiful writer.

[mal4mac]

I could bang on about David Mitchell ad infinitum. His book Cloud Atlas surely has to be a future classic.


I still haven't read that! Though I recently read "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet", which I think is wonderful. He really brings to life the closed off world of the Japan of several centuries ago, when the only contact with Europe was through a small Dutch trading post.

[ladderandbucket]

New Finnish Grammer by Diego Marani.

Concerns an amnesiac in Helsinki during WW2. Sparse, elegiac and very European. I would rank it alongside The Outsider and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.