Pretty good, though I'd take the asterisk off Crime and Punishment and Fight Club. They're just classic classics. Did you miss Jane Eyre? I also feel vindicated, re: The Master and Margarita. If we're doing modern classics, I feel like this list could use some Coetzee, Ferrante, Kingsolver, Robinson, July, Saunders, and Heti.
Pretty good, though I'd take the asterisk off Crime and Punishment and Fight Club. They're just classic classics. Did you miss Jane Eyre? I also feel vindicated, re: The Master and Margarita. If we're doing modern classics, I feel like this list could use some Coetzee, Ferrante, Kingsolver, Robinson, July, Saunders, and Heti.
Pretty good, though I'd take the asterisk off Crime and Punishment and Fight Club. They're just classic classics. Did you miss Jane Eyre? I also feel vindicated, re: The Master and Margarita. If we're doing modern classics, I feel like this list could use some Coetzee, Ferrante, Kingsolver, Robinson, July, Saunders, and Heti.
Fair. I tried not to put anything on from the last couple decades, but aside from that my inclusion of modern classics was almost entirely random
Have you read Richard Powers? I love every book, every minute. This man is brilliant.
The first rule of classics lists is: you talk about reordering the classics lists.
The second rule of classics lists is:...
OK, I came here just to make that lame joke. Thanks for the list though.