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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