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Overview
As we are rapidly approaching the end of Q1 (or the first quarter) of the 21st century, Jack Edwards has created his take on 25 books that will be considered classics in 3024.
Challenge Books
There There
Tommy Orange
Landmark book about indigenous people in America. History and identities of indigenous people. Simultaneously about establishing community, but also feeling marginalised within a land that was taken from you.
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Portrait of modern womanhood and femininity, what it means to be a woman in the modern world
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Created the greek mythology rennaisance of mythological retellings
Outline
Rachel Cusk
Novel told through 10 conversations. Paved the way for the new style of literature which is more vulnerable and personal
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
Two beings on opposite ends of a time war. Pushes what sci-fi can and should be. Book gets better on 2nd, 3rd, 4th reads
In Memoriam
Alice Winn
Reads like a classic. In conversation with classics and poems created during WW1.
