What are your favorite novels published in the last decade or so?

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Lincoln in the Bardo

I read it in a few days because I could not put it down.

Hosseini's Kite Runner

Olive Kitteridge, though I think it's more than a decade old.

What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

A little over a decade now, but A Great Unrecorded History- A New Life of E. M. Forester was wonderful, especially finding out he lead a relatively happy end of life in a throuple with a hot younger British policeman and his wife. The Pulitzer winning Sontag: Her Life and Work was very well done and balanced both the monster and the vulnerable woman that she was. Red Comet, the latest in the plethora of Sylvia Plath biographies is a game changing biography that is rewriting how we will understand her.

There are many great biographies on visual artists that have been written in the last year if you are into that, and also memoirs by musicians including Elvis Costello, Chrissy Hyndes and the ones by Patty Smith.

There’s been an abundant of graphic novel memoirs that have emerged in the last decade and if you haven’t explored the genre before it is very rich.

[quote] Sylvia Plath biographies is a game changing biography that is rewriting how we will understand her.

How much of the content is literary and how much biographical I wonder.

R7 The biography uses new information from recently discovered letters from her psychiatrist, FBI reports on her father, medical records of her grandmother and a trove of information from a researcher who was writing a biography that was never published, but the materials have recently been archived and available to researchers. The scholarship looks to be impeccable and the author works to directly dispel problematic analysis and biased issues that other biographies in the past have stated, relied on and perpetuated. There is a considerable integration of her poetry and writing passages so far from her juvenilia writings, most likely less so when it gets to well know materials she published that people are familiar with. The author stays far away from putting any her own assumptions and imaginings into the work.

City on Fire - Grant Halberg

Never Let Me Go.

Notes on a Sacandal.

The Rules of Civility - Amor Towles

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

L'amica geniale novels/Neapolitan novels - Elena Ferrante

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

"Social Creature" - Tara Isabella Burton

Hearts Invisible Furies and Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

It's almost 20 years old, but I only recently read it: Dancer, by Colum McCann. It's a novelized biography of Rudolf Nureyev.