Future Classics: 50 Literary Greats

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50 Works 474,511 Books 17,095 Reviews ½ 3.9
Work
The White Tiger (2008) by Aravind Adiga
The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
Invisible (2009) by Paul Auster
The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes
The Sellout (2015) by Paul Beatty
True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) by Peter Carey
The Luminaries (2013) by Eleanor Catton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon
American Woman (2003) by Susan Choi
House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Díaz
Look at Me (2001) by Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan
The Circle (2013) by Dave Eggers
The Marriage Plot (2011) by Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides
My Brilliant Friend (2011) by Elena Ferrante
Then We Came to the End (2007) by Joshua Ferris
Freedom (2010) by Jonathan Franzen
Purity (2015) by Jonathan Franzen
The Art of Fielding (2011) by Chad Harbach
Imagine Me Gone (2016) by Adam Haslett
Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James
Train Dreams (2002) by Denis Johnson
Tree of Smoke (2007) by Denis Johnson
The Known World (2003) by Edward P. Jones
The Namesake (2003) by Jhumpa Lahiri
Chronic City (2009) by Jonathan Lethem
Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantel
Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
Cloud Atlas: A Novel (2004) by David Mitchell
1Q84 (2009) by Haruki Murakami
Everything I Never Told You (2014) by Celeste Ng
The Accursed (2013) by Joyce Carol Oates
Blonde (2000) by Joyce Carol Oates
Netherland (2008) by Joseph O'Neill
Bel Canto (2001) by Ann Patchett
Gilead (2004) by Marilynne Robinson
The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth
Empire Falls (2001) by Richard Russo
NW (2012) by Zadie Smith
White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
Olive Kitteridge (2008) by Elizabeth Strout
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt
The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace
The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead
The Interestings (2013) by Meg Wolitzer

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