[lbo-talk] Fiction recommendations

[John Thornton]

I need a few recommendations for recent works of fiction that are worth 
reading. Any genre is acceptable, the only stipulation is that is has to be 
fiction and it has to be post 1995. I only read maybe one or two fiction 
books a year, and I generally dislike them, so coming up with a list of 5 
contemporary works worth reading is almost impossible for me. I read 
non-fiction primarily and seldom find works of fiction to be compelling. I 
generally prefer short stories for my fiction reading.
The last work of fiction I read was "Blindness" by Jose Saramago and I was 
barely able to finish it as it was overly simplistic and I could not 
recommend it to anyone over 15 years old. It seems possible that this may 
have been the result of the English language version having been the work 
of two different translators however.
Any help from fiction readers would be appreciated.

John Thornton

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