10 Must-Read Modern Classic Books (20th Century)

it's a beautiful book about a very flawed protagonist that you feel a lot of sympathy for even though he is damaged and quite unlikable it's also a book of twists and turns

it's an enormous Space Opera that's also one of the smartest pieces of Science Fiction you'll ever read

this novel by Ray Bradbury did a lot for me when it came to my appreciation of literature and art

I went out and I read it several years ago and it brought me to tears multiple times this is a beautiful somber heartbreaking science fiction drama

Kindred is a powerful book that encourages you to offer sympathy in ways that you wouldn't normally expect to or be asked to

1984 isn't the strongest narrative in the world but it presents since the reader with a list of things to look out for it breaks down the barriers of fascism and control and offers us a way to see through all of that it gives us the wisdom and the tools to recognize when your nation is in danger of fascistic control and for that 1984 is invaluable

it's an incredible Gothic book that is very much about ghosts and haunting without there being any actual ghosts

it is an undeniably beautiful exciting adventure story that introduces us to a Wonderful World inspired by European in mythology folk tales and geography

this book is gorgeous tanazaki is an amazing writer I recommend everything he's written

his books are about bureaucracy his books are about people who cannot live or at least struggle to live within an overly complicated needlessly bureaucratic dehumanizing capitalistic Society that's what he did that's what all of his stories are about and the trial is kind of exemplary in that way