Which Modern Book Will Become a Classic in the Future?

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Anything from Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen!
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I’m honestly not sure, which books will become classics in the distant future or even if any at all will be able to compete with the current classics like Jane Austen, Shakespeare, T.S Elliot and numerous others famous writers and poets of the past.
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I reckon Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials will become classics.
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I think that the books that are now considered to be classics aren't classics because of their popularity or reader responses. I think they became classics because they were different. Maybe not necessarily plotwise, but characterwise definitely. Take the Bronte sisters, for example, sure the plots of their books are pretty amazing, but it's how real the characters are that has made their novels withstand the test of time. They aren't shallow, two-dimensional characters that look like the author's puppets. No, they feel like real people who you would expect to meet someday. That is what I believe makes a classic.
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I believe books by Nora Roberts and John Grisham might make the list as well.
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I think Harry Potter and A Thousand Splendid Suns are good candidates for the position. Both discuss important issues in a very diverse way.
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I think that "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie may become a classic in the future. This was a wonderfully written book with such strong themes that many would enjoy.
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The Kite Runner, for sure.
Maybe something by Julia Alvarez. I love In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
The Harry Potter Series will probably be considered a classic as well.
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edith38 wrote: 27 Nov 2018, 18:00 I think Terry Pratchett will be there. Not by one single book but as a phenomenon of amazing genius that happens once in a blue moon. Also, probably Neil Gaiman but as his works are less concise he may be a bit saturated.
I actually just read Mort by Terry Pratchett, and I completely agree. I loved his writing style, and each of his characters had an exceptionally strong voice.
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sarah[1904] wrote: 10 May 2018, 16:09 I often wonder if authors of the books we consider classics ever would have thought their words would live for so many years and have millions of eyes grace their pages. I believe A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini will become a classic. The subject matter of the novel, and the characters it centers on, are so important to today's times that the events will be talked about for years.
I’ve never read this book but I have heard of it a little bit. I’ll have to check it out 😊
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I think The Hunger Games will become a classic.
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Crazyreader01 wrote: 17 Mar 2019, 13:55 I think that the books that are now considered to be classics aren't classics because of their popularity or reader responses. I think they became classics because they were different. Maybe not necessarily plotwise, but characterwise definitely. Take the Bronte sisters, for example, sure the plots of their books are pretty amazing, but it's how real the characters are that has made their novels withstand the test of time. They aren't shallow, two-dimensional characters that look like the author's puppets. No, they feel like real people who you would expect to meet someday. That is what I believe makes a classic.
Yes I agree. It’s the books that have characters that feel like real people. I believe Pride and Prejudice is one of those for me. I think Francine Rivers is a modern day author that does this very thing so well.
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somsnam_16 wrote: 15 May 2018, 04:51 I wonder how often we think about classic books today. It was masterpiece that no one can ever reproduce.And i believe that The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini or The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri might be one of the classics in near future.
This is a wonderfully told story of choices, guilt and regret, maybe one day it will be a classic!
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The Hunger Games have themes about social dynamics and strife in times of war. Peace is not the absence of war because they had not had war for 74 years and there was clearly no peace. Consequences of actions. What is a hero? So many things to discuss and symbolism and themes.
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