modern books that will be "classics" in the future (and why you should read them) 

As someone who spends pretty much their whole time reading and is a big fan of both classic and contemporary fiction one question I'm asked all the time is are you a virgin kidding well people probably ask that behind my back but to my face the question I'm always asked is which contemporary books are going to become classic books and this is something I have been spending a lot of time thinking about recently because the New York Times Review of Books asked me as part of a survey that they were doing they got together a jury of lots people all around the world like a real microcosm of society to submit books for a list that they are curating of the top books of the century so far so as we approach 2025 alarmingly this is quite stressful to even think about we are actually approaching the end of q1 the end of the first quarter of this Century the 21st century which is weird because I was 14 years old yesterday I 'm pretty sure but in the process of thinking about that I devised my own list of 25 books that have been released recently that I think will be considered to be Classics in 3024 you know the books that people will be studying in school the books that will be being studied by this English Department but first my criteria number one it needs to be a book that has critical or commercial Acclaim and therefore have proven that they appeal to a somewhat wide audience so I'm looking at literary prices as well as bestseller lists two it needs to have some kind of historical significance historical relevancy or context it shaped the culture in some kind of way or it responds to the culture in some kind of way and number three beautiful writing a high quality of writing yes but also specifically books that are highly symbolic and could be analyzed a book you could write an essay about like has a book ever resonated with you so much that you close the final page and you think I want to write an essay about that that is how you know it's great so let's dive in in absolutely no particular order I cannot possibly rank these I think would have an aneurysm if I even tried to rank these books because I just think they're all so excellent and I'm excited to talk about them with you so the first book I would like to propose as a modern classic is girl woman other by Bernardine Evarist this is a kind of state of the nation multigenerational book it won the booker prize and that in itself is an interesting history because it was one of the first books to share the book of prize it's a multi-perspective story about a range of modern day women having a range of experiences but they are all interconnected there's 12 core characters whose Myriad experiences we explore and it just feels like a portrait of modern Womanhood and femininity and what it is to exist in the world as a woman interestingly it was also the eighth book by Bernardine Evarist but the first to really hit the mainstream and kind of launch her into public attention it's kind of like the chapel rune of books that's bear with me here you know how Chapel rune kind of recently blew up but has a back catalog of amazing songs that people have kind of been sleeping on and now they're only just discovering that's kind of what happened with Bernardine Evaristo's literary ER once this book hit the mainstream then people started discovering what an incredible Talent she was and this just feels like something everyone needs to study I love this book now a book that is structurally somewhat similar to groom other is there by Tommy orange now this is a really important book a real Landmark book in my opinion about indigenous people in America this follows a similar structure to goom other in the sense that we have lots of different perspectives and lots of different characters who all kind of come together at the end at one major event in this case of powwow it's about the history and identities of indigenous people it's simultaneously about establishing Community but also feeling marginalized within a land that you had taken from you Pace wise it just accelerates and accelerates to this huge Crescendo which is one of the most powerful climaxes of a book I've ever encountered so teach this in the schools if this is about standing the test of time this would get an A+ I think it would trigger a lot of discourse and discussion about its themes it's Dey textured if you write an essay about this I would like to read it I would also like to pump it into my bloodstream and it won the pen Hemingway award and the American book award that is there there by Tommy orange and I want to be wherever there is next I'm going to say it the song of Achilles because the song of Achilles by madin Miller has created this Greek mythology Renaissance in popular culture you know the success of this book has led to a whole range of Greek mythological retellings and I think that is incredibly powerf

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