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The book is composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other. Lardner, Ring: You Know Me Al: 1916 Letters Lardner's first successful book; written by "Jack Keefe", a bush league baseball player, to a friend back home Lessing, Doris: Shikasta: 1979 Letters and reports
The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk [63] Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon [64] Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian [65] Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie [66] American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis [67] Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis [68] The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers [69] Mao II (1991) by Don ...
The fourth was Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, fifth, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, then Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, followed by David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, then Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, nine with J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, concluding the top ten with Glen Duncan's I, Lucifer, eleventh being J ...
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1998) [2] The Daily Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read [5] The Guardian ' s 100 Best Novels Written in English (2015) [3] Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (1999) [6]
Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history. [ citation needed ] Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance and others.