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Old 01-05-2012, 08:31 PM   #1
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Any Recommendations for Literary Fiction

This is my favourite genre so I'm collecting recommendations on Kindle. They can be well known authors or unknown names. By literary fiction I don't mean the classics, but instead I'm looking for living authors writing now. To give an idea I like authors like Kazuo Ishiguro, some Martin Amis, some Ian McEwan, Ali Smith, Monica Ali, Zadie Smith and Monique Roffey. Literary fiction is just another name for really well written general fiction.
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Old 01-05-2012, 09:42 PM   #2
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Jane Gardam's Old Filth is one that has been universally taken-to by everyone I know who's ever read it (including yours truly).
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Old 01-05-2012, 10:33 PM   #3
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I like some of the same authors you mentioned so I'll give this a shot. I know you said no classics, but Hunger by Knut Hamsen is the best snooty fiction I read last year and it's in the public domain. A friend raves about J. M. Coetzee and Disgrace was good, but my taste runs more to Cormac McCarthy. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz was another I enjoyed recently.
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Murakami is great. I have heard great things about 1Q84 which just came out by the same author. I have it waiting for me, I'm just trying to psyche myself up for a 900+ page read.

In recent years I also like Cutting for Stone and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (well that one I LOVED.... right up until the ending, then I loved it less. So take that as a warning).

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Thank you for these. I've been meaning to read Murakami so will put this in the TBR list. It's funny Knut Hamsen has been mentioned. One of my favourite recent Irish author friends Noel Duffy has been compared to him so I must read more. I've only seen an excerpt from Hamsen and liked it. I do like the unusual stuff!
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Hilary Mantel, a recent discovery for me, is a wonderful writer.

I also love Iris Murdoch, A S Byatt and Margaret Atwood.

Maybe a bit "lighter" but certainly not at all fluffy are Kate Atkinson and Elizabeth Jane Howard. These writers have the great skill of writing stories which can be achingly funny and profoundly sad at the same time.

And I find Anne Tyler's and Salley Vickers' books very gentle and wise.

All highly recommended and I hope you enjoy them if you try them.

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Old 01-13-2012, 10:19 AM   #7
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Salley Vickers is hard to put down. Atwood is a 'Must be read' for me because I know I'll lover her books and yet haven't read them. I even have them piled up on my shelves. I know my ereader will help with this. Thanks for mentioning Irish Murdoch, who I really loved in the 1980s. I haven't read The Green Knight by her, which I bought ages ago because it was highly recommended by a friend.
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I think my favourite Iris Murdoch was "The Black Prince". I must go back and read it again if I can ever find the time!

I discovered Kate Atkinson a couple of years ago (when I was in England on holiday in fact) and have now read all her books and eagerly await whatever she publishes next, because I know I will love it, whatever it is. Do try her, if you haven't already.
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Have you read R.F. Delderfield? I'd certainly put him in the "literary" category. He specialised in the "sweeping epic" type of fiction. Probably best known for "To Serve Them All My Days", and the "Horseman Riding By" trilogy.
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Old 01-15-2012, 09:58 AM   #10
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I'd recommend the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser. Technically, these are historical fiction but I'd also consider them literary fiction as well.

Fraser lifted the Flashman character from the book Tom Brown's School Days and has written a series of books putting him at the center of historical events in Victorian Britain (ex., The Charge of the Light Brigade, Sacking of the Summer Palace, The Raj). All very funny and very historically accurate novels.

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I just finished The Three Musketeers, by Dumas. Awesome.

I also loved the Hobbit, and if you read that and like it, try Lord of the Rings.
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I'll second Hamsun. I read Hunger years ago and liked it quite a bit, then last year I read The Growth of the Soil and was absolutely floored--it's easily in my top ten now. If you read and like Murakami, I'd recommend Italo Calvino. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller is my favorite of his and another personal top ten, but you might want to start with something more accessible like The Baron in the Trees, to get a feel for him. I haven't kept up with Jeanette Winterson's work in the last ten years, but she put out some great stuff in the '90s--The Passion and Written on the Body are great, and I liked GUT Symmetries quite a bit, but a lot of people found it ponderous and overly ambitious.
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Another writer I forgot to mention before: Geraldine Brooks.

I am currently reading "Caleb's Crossing", her most recent novel. It's about the first Native American from what is now called Martha's Vineyard who went to Harvard.
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I highly recommend Jane Gardam. You might try Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Penelope Lively, Alan Bennett
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Another writer I forgot to mention before: Geraldine Brooks.

I am currently reading "Caleb's Crossing", her most recent novel. It's about the first Native American from what is now called Martha's Vineyard who went to Harvard.
Second Geraldine Brooks. I've read three of her books so far and been impressed by every one.

Just finished "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" by Helen Simonson and was really blown away by her gorgeous language.
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