Hi all! 
I have been "in the cave" with my novel for the last decade, not wanting to read too much contemporary fiction from authors that shared my own cultural point of view. I was reading early 20th century American stuff, and then stuff like Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, etc. So now I'm coming out from the cave, and I'm looking around and realizing I've missed a lot of interesting American stuff in the last decade. I think that literally the last American book I read was Jonathan Franzen's _The Corrections_. So I'm looking to make up a little time here and want some suggestions!
I've come up with:
The Fortress of Solitude
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Life of Pi
A Visit from the Good Squad
What else?
Hmm, wait a minute, I also read The Time Traveler's Wife and I am pretty sure that was from this century. And I realize that Yann Martel is a Canadian. And I don't want to read any more David Foster Wallace than I did in the 90s. Heh.
This is all assuming I can put aside my George R. R. Martin fixation long enough to read something that doesn't involve Starks and Lannisters. Having said that, I'm up for any genre.
I have been "in the cave" with my novel for the last decade, not wanting to read too much contemporary fiction from authors that shared my own cultural point of view. I was reading early 20th century American stuff, and then stuff like Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, etc. So now I'm coming out from the cave, and I'm looking around and realizing I've missed a lot of interesting American stuff in the last decade. I think that literally the last American book I read was Jonathan Franzen's _The Corrections_. So I'm looking to make up a little time here and want some suggestions!
I've come up with:
The Fortress of Solitude
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Life of Pi
A Visit from the Good Squad
What else?
Hmm, wait a minute, I also read The Time Traveler's Wife and I am pretty sure that was from this century. And I realize that Yann Martel is a Canadian. And I don't want to read any more David Foster Wallace than I did in the 90s. Heh.
This is all assuming I can put aside my George R. R. Martin fixation long enough to read something that doesn't involve Starks and Lannisters. Having said that, I'm up for any genre.
