Where to Start with Modern Classics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- You guys have been asking for it, so I am delivering! These are my thoughts on where I think people should start to get into modern classics. I define "classics" as being published before 1950 and "modern classics" as ~1950-2005. Arbitrary, but there you are :)
0:13- Intro
2:46 - Where to start with recommendations
19:06 - Other recommendations
21:52 - Guesses about future modern classics
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Books Mentioned:
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro - bookshop.org/a/8761/978030796...
THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe - bookshop.org/a/8761/978067944...
NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro - bookshop.org/a/8761/978140007...
THE SPARROW by Mary Doria Russell - bookshop.org/a/8761/978044991...
POSSESSION by AS Byatt - bookshop.org/a/8761/978037571...
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark - bookshop.org/a/8761/978140004...
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee- bookshop.org/a/8761/978006242...
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys - bookshop.org/a/8761/978039335...
THE BLOODY CHAMBER by Angela Carter - bookshop.org/a/8761/978110190...
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson - bookshop.org/a/8761/978014303...
THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt - bookshop.org/a/8761/978140003...
STONER by John Williams - bookshop.org/a/8761/978159017...
GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson - bookshop.org/a/8761/978031242...
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND by Flannery O'Connor - bookshop.org/a/8761/978094045...
EXCELLENT WOMEN by Barbara Pym - bookshop.org/a/8761/978014310...
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK by James Baldwin -bookshop.org/a/8761/978030727...
BELOVED by Toni Morrison - bookshop.org/a/8761/978140003...
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou - bookshop.org/a/8761/978034551...
LOVE MEDICINE by Louise Erdrich - bookshop.org/a/8761/978006178...
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien - bookshop.org/a/8761/978061870...
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood - bookshop.org/a/8761/978038549...
AYITI by Roxane GAY - bookshop.org/a/8761/978080212...
ZONE ONE by Colson Whitehead - bookshop.org/a/8761/978030745...
WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel - bookshop.org/a/8761/978031242...
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I teach high school and last year we read The Hate U Give together in my sophomore class. I think it’s a great alternative for To Kill a Mockingbird that is own voices and more relevant for today’s teenagers, especially with recent events! Great recommendations, thanks!
I think THUG is definitely on the fast track to be a modern YA/children's classic
@@bookslikewhoa You really really really need to read The Invention of Wings. It's historical fiction and I absolutely fell in love with it. I also recommend Practical Magic. It's not based on romance, but it shows more of real life problems.
I applaud your willingness to try something different. I have thought the first 50 pages or so of Mockingbird was very slow, and students nowadays might be bored by it before giving up.
The Haunting Of Hill House is FANTASTIC! Book & old film
I low key love the 1999 version... I know it's not good, but I still love it :D
bookslikewhoa I actually like the 90s version too. I’m blanking on the name of the actress who plays Eleanor but she KILLED IT🔥🔥🔥
Also both her & CZJ’s PJ wardrobe in that movie is on POINT 👏
I didn’t know there was a movie! I’ll have to look it up because I tried to watch the Netflix show and couldn’t get into it. Maybe I’ll like the movie better :)
Such a great list!
I'd add: The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. I think some Latinx authors would qualify: Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Esquivel, Sandra Cisneros, Julio Cortazar, etc. SFF: Octavia Butler and Ursula K LeGuin. Comics: Maus by Art Spiegelman, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.
Great list! I actually had a couple of those on there but cut for time
Yes Cortázar! i wish more ppl knew about him and his amazing stories
Are you me? LOL these are almost exactly the titles that came to mind as I was watching
Cortázar is freaking amazing
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is my whole heart in paper form 😫 it is the modern classic of modern classics💕
So good!!!!
Toni Morrison is so good and so layered. I bet she is lost on a lot of high schoolers (unfortunately, but not surprisingly). If you pick her up again, I definitely recommend her audiobooks as she narrates many of them and is so good. I also definitely need to grab a copy of The Remains of the Day soon!
I didn't know she narrated her own audio!! I will definitely go that route once I get back to her!
My all time favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird as I see a lot of me in Boo Radley, It is also my favorite movie and I was in the play back in 1998.
I just ordered If Beale Street Could Talk.
Some books I also enjoy are One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
To Kill a Mockingbird is also my all time favorite book. My dogs name is Boo Radley❤️ thought that would be a fun fact
I love The Things They Carried, we studied it at school and it’s the only school book I’ve ever seen universally loved. Everyone said it was an incredible book, and it is.
I loved the movie "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" starring Maggie Smith. It inspired me to read the book!
Stoner, Gilead, and Excellent Women on one list. Wow! That's my kind of list. I know I'm late to the party; I just discovered this channel, but I would offer Their Eyes Were Watching God, Slaughterhouse 5, and Death Comes to the Archbishop as will-be modern classics. Thanks for a great analysis.
What a wonderful list! It is interesting that you started modern classics at the year 1950. Most people I’ve talked with start their definition of modern classics as anything written after World War 1, seeing as how that is the event that not only changed the world as we knew it, but also changed how many people saw the world as well.
My favorites are the great dystopian sci-fi’s such as Animal Farm and 1984 by Orwell, Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, and Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury.
For me, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), East of Eden (John Steinbeck), Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo), The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), and White Teeth (Zadie Smith) are some of my favourite modern classics.
I definitely predict that Signs Preceding the End of the World (Yuri Herrera), Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot, non-fiction), Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel), Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Madeleine Thien), and Emperor of All Maladies (Siddhartha Mukherjee non-fiction) will (hopefully) all be classics one day *crossed fingers*
Really enjoyed this video and everyone's recommendations in the comments!
Pedro Páramo is my favourite book but i never see it talked about anywhere =(
@@apocalypsereading7117 yeah! We read it for school and to be honest is the only book I was forced to read that I actually enjoyed. It was really good 👍
Loved seeing the secret history on your list!! No one is more perfect in their craft than Donna Tartt
As for guesses for 'future modern fiction'/currently kinda sort of modern fiction in my eyes, I'll also add Octavia Butler, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bell Hooks. (those are the ones I can think of right now)
GREAT list!
just read these books recently but i somewhat feel like "kafka on the shore" and especially "norwegian wood" by haruki murakami may be seen as classics at some point
You have interesting ideas. I was surprised that you didn’t include any Latin writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, among others. I’d also include Ray Bradbury, Asimov, and George Orwell.
My list of suggested reads as modern classics is as follows :-
Atonement - Ian McEwan
A Thousand Splendid Suns -Khaled Hosseini
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Thank you for your video which has given me much inspiration for future reads.
Thank you for this video I've read a lot of these but there are also some that I'm defiantly looking into!!!
As a 65 year old woman of color, I've read several books by Toni Morrison. I tried to read Beloved when it first came out and I couldn't finish it. I didn't like the book or the movie. I started with Sula by Toni Morrison back in the '70's. This is a good book to start with and it's not very long.
Thanks for all your videos
adding 80% of this to the tbr. thank you
Wow your makeup is on point and I am obsessed with your earrings and cardigan 😍 Love these videos!
Thanks so much for listing the titles in the description!!! So many booktubers don’t and then it’s hard to remember/find the titles when I want to look them up.
Interesting list - thank you - I need to read The Remains of the Day, I have heard such good things about it
Thanks for the great recommendations! Definitely a few of these on my TBR now. If you like coming of age stories in a boarding school setting you have to read Moab is my washpot by Stephen fry. I don't often read or recommend biographies but this is a true gem. Also the writing is just beautiful. Definitely worth checking out
I absolutely loved the remains of the day ! It was so pure and pleasant
I found The Handmaids Tale a real slog to get through! Great video, will def look into some of these.
I agree with you. And moreover such a depressing novel.
Great list! Even a couple I hadn't heard of.
Cheers. 🍻
I can’t recall how I found your channel, but I’m so glad I did as it’s improved my sleep! I like watching your videos during the day and re-listening to them as I fall asleep. I find your voice so soothing. Thanks for making awesome videos about classics!
I'm so glad!
Wow, this is close to the list I would have picked for the same category. There are only a couple that I didn’t like/wouldn’t recommend, and so many that I love.
Great video, Mara.
This list is amazing. I love to hear how you talk about books. I think it is like taking a short lit class!! And I am loving your new podcast too. Thanks for all your amazing content.
I'm so glad!
I love your classic lit videos, and I’m so excited to add these to my goodreads!! I am starting The Remains of the Day tomorrow ❤️
Hope you enjoy it!
Hi Mara, I'm Marra! I so love your list of modern classics. I am absolutely enamored with classics as well but, primarily Victorian Gothic Lit.
I love this video. My freshman English teacher taught me to love and pick apart classic and modern literature and I’ve learned to love it. I have a list of books I’m interested in but I’m glad I can get a perspective on them (and find some new interesting books) before I read them. Usually the back summary doesn’t really catch my interest very well.
Edit: I recently bought “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” and I’m surprised I haven’t heard more about it.
Very interesting list - I will look for Remains of the Day - thanks for sharing
Hope you enjoy it!
Your make up looks 💕 especially the lipstick. Lol sorry had to mention it. I am new at the modern classics. I read lots of Victian Lit.
Appreciate this video.
This is, by far, the best recommendation video I've seen on YT. I just discovered your channel today (from Beautiful Bookish Bethany) and am really having fun going through your videos. Amazing content! Thank you!
Welcome aboard!
Just rented The Remains of the Day from the library. Can’t wait to read it!
Thanks for the suggestions.
The Bluest Eye is a story that has stayed with me as few things have..I also want to say that I really appreciate your take on Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is hard to Find..
haha I found you just know trought that video, just came here to check out the modern classics! Very nice, already subscibed
Sula got me hooked on Toni Morrison. Highly recommended.
Great video with great recommendations!
Great recommendations. Some of my favourite modern classics are 1984 & Animal farm by Orwell, People in the Summer Night by F. E. Sillanpää, The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin & anything by Italo Calvino 😀
I read The Handmaid's Tale yesterday - in one night. Just loved it! 😱
I’ve been reading 1984, and I it’s scarily real. Written in 1949, titled 1984, still real in 2020. Maybe even too close to reality. Sometimes it’s even uncomfortable. So I’d definitely add that to this list. Early this year I read Fahrenheit 451 and it’s also so applicable to reality. I would add that to the list too. I read I know why the caged birds sing by Maya Angelou in June and I absolutely LOVE IT. Her writing is amazing, I kept being stunned by her and it’s a book that I already want to pick up to read again. I plan on reading to kill a mockingbird till the end of the year, can’t wait!
Love these recommendations!
Apparently, The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, is now available in full for free to watch on U Tube, thank goodness Julie Andrews who was considered for the title role didn't get cast ahead of Maggie Smith who gives a truly memorable performance in the title role.
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Great suggestions, thanks!
Very nice! Thanks for the recommendations.
I would suggest a couple of Beat authors: Jack Kerouac (On the Road) and William S. Burroughs ( Naked Lunch). Trippy!!
What a nice video! loved the list. I read some & have most of these books, so can't wait to read them. If this is a British list, Daphne Du Maurier would be on there for sure, can't do without the gothic option :) I'd like to recommend an overlooked, translated author into the mix though, Stefan Zweig, a German author. I think he has very strong prose in his very short books. I'd recommend Chess and 24 Hours In The Life Of A Woman, which are both little novellas. People's favorite would be more Chess, if you want to try one :) I think you'd enjoy it. Cheers.
Yeah, Du Maurier got caught in between my 2 videos, because I've since defined "modern classic" as post-1950... if I ever revise that first classics video, she's such a great place to start!!
I think there are some fantastic choices in this video. I've just recently read If Beale Street Could Talk and would like to read more James Baldwin. For Toni Morrison I would definitely recommend Song of Solomon
amazing i was wondering what your opinion of the secret history was!! i loved it- if we were villains is also brilliant (don’t know if it’ll be as much a classic as tsh but still very enjoyable) so would love to hear your thoughts on that and the “dark academia” genre as a whole! sounds as though you’d love it.
I agree with so many of your picks. Great video.
Thanks for watching!
I loved hearing your thoughts on this topic. I totally agree that Remains of the Day and Stoner are ~~~flawless~~ novels! My favourite modern classic is The Master and Margarita, but I think my "gateway" modern classics were books by Kurt Vonnegut and J.D. Salinger :)
Ive read slaughterhouse 5, what other Vonnegut novels would you recommend? Currently in the midst of the catcher in the rye and love it
I started Possession once upon a time. You’re making me want to pick it up and give it another try. It was going way over my head at the time
I think you'd like it- it's got very angsty romance vibes with a big splash of Rossetti like fake literary history
I am definitely going to grab a copy of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing. Seems very interesting!
I read If We Were Villains for a bookclub and really enjoyed it! Also enjoyed Song of Solomon, which I also read in school. My favorite "modern classic" is We Capture the Castle, which is technically outside your timeframe (1948). I think it's really accessible, especially for people who enjoy romance
Yes, that one just missed the cut! I love it too
Nice to hear that not everybody connects with The Handmaid's tale... I thought I was alone in this.
Several of your recs (The Sparrow, The Secret History, The Remains of the Day) are among my favorite books of all time! For some reason I feel way more invested in talking about modern classics and even just classics from the 20th Century than from the earlier centuries because it feels like you're more able to participate(?) in the discourse of whether they do become modern classics or not. One writer who stands out for me is Clarice Lispector, whose books used to be so hard to find when I was in college, but has since had a push for rediscovery that involves translations and reprintings.
Guesses of writers who would become considered moderns classics: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ursula K. Le Guin (already established as an sff classic but I think she has crossed over for people considering "literary merit"), Orhan Pamuk.
Yes, exactly-- we're getting to take part in making them a classic!!
I've just read Things Fall Apart and I loved it so much! 💖📚 It is such a brilliant book I absolutely loved descriptions of their culture and the everyday life of the people in the tribe. I've already bought the whole trilogy and I'm super excited to read the rest of the African trilogy. 🌞🌺📚
it's on my tbr i hope im gonna love it as well
I'm so glad!
LOVE this video! I would like to recommend a dark horse candidate for modern classic: Jesmyn Ward. I think she is good to read along side Toni Morrison and James Baldwin; she incorporates a lot of their themes. Also, her prose is devastatingly beautiful. "Salvage the Bones" is where everyone starts, but I would submit her memoir "Men We Reaped" is just as good a starting point.
Absolutely.
I came to Jesmyn Ward by way of 'Men We Reaped' followed by 'Salvage The Bones'. I'm now reading 'Sing Unburied, Sing' alongside 'Sula'.
You have impeccable taste- love this video
You make such a good point about different countries having different books. I havnt even thought about it much! Some books may not make it to US publishing house.. based on little scraps of info I’ve gathered regarding the industry. And an ARC I just got mentioned the authors other works is standard reading in English or British schools... made me more aware of things. Lol love this video! Okay... HOW did I make it through life without even knowing what to kill a mockingbird was about 🤦🏽♀️ lol
If you want a great read to understand Indonesia then try "This Earth of Mankind" and the accompanying books by Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
Where did those 24+ minutes go? Thank you for providing an excellent video. Outof your selection, I have read only 3 books Never Let You Go, To Kill a Mockingbird (I finished the audiobook today), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I certainly cannot argue with your selection,, nor would I want to as it has given me food for thought. For additional suggestions, I would have included John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men), Ian McEwan (Atonement ) and Khaled (Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns)
Thank you again and I look forward to your next video.
I am mexican so I am totally biased, but do take into consideration the MASTER of modern classic latin literature... Gabriel García Márquez.
Thank you for your recommendations, I will consider for future reading. ;)
For people interested in reading Louise Erdrich, she runs a bookstore called Birchbark books in Minneapolis which fulfills online orders and if you buy one of her books she'll sign it for you! Opportunity to support a native-owned business
God, I love Kazuo Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go absolutely destroyed me the first time I read it.
your summaries were really great - just enough to make me intrigued. The Bloody Chamber is such a dream (albeit a gory one) ^_^ I think I actually liked the film of The Remains of the Day more than the book! unfortunately Wide Sargasso Sea was forced upon me in high school with basically no context except "it's postcolonial"...
My son read the Things they carried for his IB English in highschool. He had me read it. Was really great book. Hard read because of all the violence.
So, turns out I haven't actually read any of these, with the exception of The Handmaid's Tale, which is a favourite. But I've wanted to read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for a long time now, I must get onto it (I did read Memento Mori by Muriel Spark many, many years ago, but can't remember it too well). You need to see the movie of Jean Brodie, it's SO good! The Remains of the Day is one that sounds right up my alley. Thanks for this list, I think I will put a number of these on my TBR: ASAP list. I'm inspired!
Ooo, yes, I can totally see you loving Jean Brodie if you love Christie
Awesome! Miss Jean Brodie near the top of my stack
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Best Modern Classics I have read thus far
1980 - A Confederacy of Dunces
1974 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
1967 - The Master and the Margarita
1959 - Naked Lunch
1959 - The Haunting of Hill House
1957 - On the Road
Great job I love many of those books
I read Song of Solomon in school as a teenager and while I recognized the writing as exceptional, I didn't exactly enjoy my time reading it.
A couple books I LOVED which I consider modern classics are A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Highly recommend if you havent picked them up.
Thanks for these recommendations I think they're great! But I am quite surprised The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath wasn't included as a modern classic. If you haven't read it I think its a great read !
I'm jealous :') woooow!!! Your collection of books is just mind-boggling! #bookgoals
Your eye makeup looks gorgeous!
Thank you!!
No Graham Greene?! Brighton Rock was too early, but I'd add either The Quiet American or Our Man in Havana to this list ^_^
Ugghhhhhh I knew I was missing something!!!! :*( :*(
@@bookslikewhoa To be fair, someone will always be missed out!
Excellent!
Mara, I love your videos. I wish you could share with us THE GOLDFINCH. I just loved it, my favourite from Donna Tartt. I strongly think that it will become a modern classic. The writing is so beautiful, different, based on this blending of analogies with reality, with memories, with imagination. A book which from my point of view is important from its writing, not the story itself. I would love to know your opinion.
I found your channel through that video.
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Never heard of THE SPARROW, but the description of it reminds me of A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ in a big way.
Loved this video. Am going to check out your classics video now. I do plan to read a lot of classics in July as my 'rush to read these books before I turn 30' sort of thing. So I'm glad that a lot of books that I planned to read are on this list. :)
Hallo girl, thanks for your generosity.
You got me at Ishiguro,
Good stuff you will also love 21st century: 'Half of a Yellow Sun'; 'White Teeth'; 'The Great Fire'; 'The Road'; 'No Country For Old Men'; 'Atonement'; 'Nemesis'; 'Indignation'; 'Ordinary Wolves'; 'Blueprints of the Afterlife'; 'A Brief History of Seven Killings'; 20th Century - 'Invisible Man'; 'Gravity's Rainbow'; 'The Crying of Lot 49'; 'If He Hollers Let Him Go' ; 'Dispatches'; 'The White Album'; 'Brideshead Revisited'; 'A Frolic of His Own'; 'The Executioner's Song'; 'Dog Soldiers', 'Underworld'
thank you so much
I think The Hunger Games will rest among the great dystopias of literature such as 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. It absolutely stands up and wile its flashier than the others, its clear Suzanne Collins had something to say about our society and she says it well.
Another on le is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, though I’m pretty sure it has already earned its spot in the American English literary cannon.
Read The Sparrow a couple of years ago. Remember liking it, but don’t remember a thing about the book. Interesting.
They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple is a new favorite modern classic of mine and I have only heard great things about her other novels.
I need to pick up books by Angela Carter soon! sounds interesting...
Your book collection is so beautiful to look at!! Love your videos!
Thank you so much!
Thank you 🌝
I read Never Let Me Go as a teen and LOVED it. I read Remains of the Day as a teen and I hated it, when I was a kid. Maybe it's time for me to revisit it...
Haha, they are definitely very different books!
Oh, interesting...I read The Secret History first, but I liked If We Were Villains better. I didn’t know there was a trend about that. I love guessing about which currently writing authors are going to get canonized but I don’t think I’m very good at it haha
If you like Remains of the Day you might also enjoy Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo. It's about a young woman who moves from China to England and keeps a diary to learn English but also to just process everything and it has that dual perspective.
i've wanted to read flannery o'connor for a long time but apparently she hated james baldwin and i just can't vibe with that at the moment, lol. maybe i'll get to it one day but i'm not in a rush. great list tho!
Thanks for the rec!!
The OConner one seems very interesting for me.
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