The Best Books of the Last 30 Years...In Our Opinion

I mean, I recently finished it. I loved it. I think it is a great novel.

I didn't love it. Okay. , I think I think I would need to reread it before I had any like formal opinion on it.

Just to kind of change it up, I did bring Against the Day. Oh, very nice. Yeah. , but definitely, you know, pinching in the last 30 years, you got to read him.

What was really unique about this book for me was that, , it uses first, second, and third person perspective, , throughout the book. So, it makes it , very interesting. , very haunting book. Definitely recommended.

I certainly think Mason Addiction is a great book and deserving of being on the list. I just would have ranked it higher.

I've only read Moononglow from him and I thought it was kind of eh.

I've read this. It's good. I would also put that in the category of like when I read it, I was like, "Yeah, this is good." But then like as time goes on, you start to kind of think about it and be like, "That was actually kind of quite a brilliant book."

I liked it. , I think it's actually kind of grown on me over time. So, I think it's deserving to be on there and I maybe would have even considered putting it on my list today, but I really tried to not include any books that were on this list already.

So, this is also kind of a unique structure. It's told in like three parts and the middle part is mostly told through a series of internal memos of like the shadow government of the Bellarusian regime. , the way I describe this book is like 1984 if it took place in modern day and wasn't like sci-fi.

I think it's a good blend between like entertaining, literary, somewhat easy to read, some more slightly challenging sections, , but just a very unique story in general, I think.

The writing is great. It's a captivating narrative. I could not put it down.

I was not a fan. I've been very critical of it. I thought it was incredibly overrated.

Just a fantastic, unique novel. , Harsh has such a interesting voice.

I read it. I thought it was good. , not top five good.

I was not a fan. , granted, I was in high school when I read it, so you know, but it did not inspire any desire to reread that book or any other of her works.

At least in here in the US this is not a topic that's really taught in traditional educational paths. So I think it's a good book for people to read just to kind of to know about it.

I think I like Savage Detectives more. Okay. I think maybe technically I wouldn't argue that 2666 is the better book. I just think I liked Savage Detectives more.

A book that I think we'll both agree should be on this list, coming at number nine is The Sympathizer by Vietn. Yes.

It's just a very emotionally connecting and uniquely written novel. So certainly one of the best I've read in a long time and should have been on the list for sure.

It's really the quality of the writing itself that's the strong point. His ability to write just very moving descriptions of the environments that they're in and the things that are happening is Steinbeckesque.

I thought that Johnson does a great job in this book of like making very interesting characters that you wanted to know like how did their story turn out while still having those themes of those like pinionsque themes of paranoia and government corruption and shadow work.

I would have ranked that higher than 26, but certainly deserves to be on the list.