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Originally Posted by John F
Besides Harry Potter, could you name some more recent books that will be classics?
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Originally Posted by Luffy
I choose not to. Goodbye.
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Hello.
Harry Potter does seem like it will be a classic. I wonder if fans of ERB or C.S. Lewis thought they were classics at the time. I'm a fan of a bunch of authors that I really enjoy, and the only authors I can think of that may fall into the future "classic" genre would be Stephen King, John Irving, Ursula K LeGuin*, and Ian McEwan*. Jim Butcher, Jodi Picoult, Michael Connelly, Suzanne Collins, John Grisham, Ben Arronovitch, Nick Hornby, Lee Child, Fredrik Bachman, ... I thoroughly enjoy, but I wouldn't put them in the "future classic " or "instant classic" label (unless I was the author trying to hawking my book
).
As far as particular books, I'm not sure. And if you limit it to "classic literature", than it is down to 1 author with a couple of books. It might be fun to go back through the blurbs of the books I've read to see which say "classic" (but I'm not going to do it
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But than it comes back to the definition of classic.
I have my doubts as to fans determining classics; I'll leave it up to the literary scholars.
*These two because because others rate them highly.