There are those who write well, and there are those who write well and often. These prolific literary giants have all published work worthy of inclusion on our list of greatest novels since 1996, but their fertility may have been difficult for voters to reduce it to a single book.
Margaret Atwood
Atwood started millennium winning the Booker Prize with “The Blind Assassin”, a novel nested with historical fiction. If this seems to be a change in relation to the feminist speculative fiction of its breakthrough, “The Handmaid's Tale”, Atwood refused to be a pigeon. Since 1996, she has published books of poetry, short fiction, essays and graphic novels; She wrote the booklet for an opera; And she wrote a novel that will remain unread for almost 100 years. The closest literary parents would be the Maddaddam trilogy (2003-2013), feminist speculative fiction plus capitalism and genetic genius have gone wrong – and a pandemic.
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DAVE EGGERS
Eggers was a disproportionate cultural figure of the last quarter of a century. His beginnings in 2000, “a heartbreaking work of amazing genius”, was a slightly fictitious memory that presented the readers with the ironized and deeply moving narration of Eggers. Since then, Genre-Bender Eggers has turned his hand towards socio-political satire (“a hologram for the king”, “the circle”), the portrait of the length of the book (“Zeitoun”) and the fictitious autobiography (“what is what is”). As the Pasha of the McSweeney literary empire and founder of the national national literary organization, it is surprising that Eggers have time to write books (two or three dozen, so far).
(Kathrin Baumbach; Viking)
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Master of conspiracy and characterization, French uses the tropes of the detective novel to explore greater themes of class and cultural imperialism. An American who has lived in Ireland since the 1990s, the French beginnings in 2007, “In the Woods”, launched her series of six pounds (so far) Squad de Dublin. The fourth, “Broken Harbor”, won the Los Angeles 2012 Book Prize for Mystery / Thriller. In recent books, the Frenchman borrowed elements of the Western genre to explore the repairing of companies in the era of climate change and looked at life in a small Irish village with the ear and abroad.
(Michael O'Shea; Putnam)
William Gibson
The greatest science fiction writer of his generation, the man who invented the term “cyberspace”, Gibson was very busy. American who moved to Canada and derived in writing in the 1970s, he wrote with Avide and brilliantly in the past 30 years on the power and the danger of technology. In novels such as “All Tomorrow's Parties” and “The Peripheral”, Gibson has anticipated the current state of our wired world – in which a reality simulacrum has passed daily life via the frightening technology and the Power -Mad, and rebel foreigners try to retaliate.
Lauren Groff
Groff emerged entirely formed with its beginnings in 2008, “The Monsters of Templeton”, a saga of the dark family that jumps through time and space with a daring and a formal spirit. A novelist with a strong social conscience, whether in his fiction in the present or the past, Groff ends under the foundation of culture to explore moral rot below. Her novel “Fates and Furies”, the story of a long wedding as with the prospects of the two spouses, was a best-seller in escape and the favorite book of Barack Obama of 2015, and she remained on her favorite list with her latest “The Vaster Wilds” of 2023.
(Gary Isaacs; Saga Press)
Stephen Graham Jones
Jones is a daring experimentalist in his fiction, using a mashup of literary genres, often with horror as a key element. He wrote novels, news and comics on alienation and priority and revenge. In his latest book, “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter”, a vampire of black feet that was murdered during the Marias massacre of 1870; “Mongrels” of 2016 is a story of transition to adulthood. Jones has published around 35 pounds since its beginnings in 2000, “The Fast Red Road”, and is an unstoppable literary force.
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With its 2014 blockbuster, “everything I have never told you”, NG reinvented the suburban novel for our current anxiety era, with its signaling of status, subtle racial tensions, adolescent secrets and deaf parents. His follow-up, “Little Fires Everywhere”, was a large bestseller, guaranteeing a devoted readership. The Hulu adaptation of the production company of Reese Witherspoon, which raised the questions of race, power and blind angle, won the Co-Star Kerry Washington and an Emmy appointment. The last, “our Missing Hearts” of the novelist, imagines a quasi-future in which the search for a son for his mother takes place against a country whose leaders have committed to preserving culture by destroying it.
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Sally Rooney
The moving fiction of Rooney, Spiritual and Smart of the Millennium struck a resonant agreement with readers around the world. The Irish novelist, perhaps reluctantly, has become a fictitious voice of her generation, examining the power relations and the politics of her characters. His first two novels, “Conversations With Friends” and “Normal People”, were published before being 30 years old. Her last, “Intermezzo”, was met by criticism hoping that she could finally trip, but fans were satisfied. Young adults from Rooney, hyperarticulated and knowingly knowing everything, are still stumbled by the mysteries of the human heart.
(Marcus Ubungen / For Times; Riverhead)
Danzy Senna
Senna has cleverly explored what it means to be a biracial person in America and the dark comedy of the intermediary. She launched her career with “Caucasia”, a successful award -winning novel in 1998; It was translated into 12 languages. So far, she has published four novels, a collection of short stories and a memory. His most recent book, “Colored Television”, is a seriocomic exploration of race and creativity and the wealthy and the deprivation of Hollywood. Things may be too serious, but Senna is able to highlight an intelligent and funny light.
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Zadie Smith
Starting with its beginnings in 2000, “White Teeth”, which has accumulated more prices than we can list it here, Smith explored the spaces between us – ethnic differences, economic disparities, art and desire. Smith is a maximalist who likes to work with a large canvas, a social observer with a lively and flawless eye. Although she has also published plays, short fiction, criticism and essays, Smith is mainly a novelist whose books include “On Beauty”, “Swing Time”, “NW” and “The Fraud”. It is one of the main writers of our time.
