Where to Start with Modern Classics

You guys have been asking for it, so I am delivering! These are my thoughts on where I think people should start to get into modern classics. I define "classics" as being published before 1950 and "modern classics" as ~1950-2005. Arbitrary, but there you are :)

0:13- Intro
2:46 - Where to start with recommendations
19:06 - Other recommendations
21:52 - Guesses about future modern classics

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Books Mentioned:

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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978030796...
THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978067944...
NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978140007...
THE SPARROW by Mary Doria Russell - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978044991...
POSSESSION by AS Byatt - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978037571...
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978140004...
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee- https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978006242...
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978039335...
THE BLOODY CHAMBER by Angela Carter - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978110190...
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978014303...
THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978140003...
STONER by John Williams - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978159017...
GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978031242...
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND by Flannery O'Connor - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978094045...
EXCELLENT WOMEN by Barbara Pym - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978014310...
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK by James Baldwin -https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978030727...
BELOVED by Toni Morrison - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978140003...
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978034551...
LOVE MEDICINE by Louise Erdrich - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978006178...
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978061870...
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978038549...
AYITI by Roxane GAY - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978080212...
ZONE ONE by Colson Whitehead - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978030745...
WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel - https://bookshop.org/a/8761/978031242...

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