I know predicting the future is always a challenge and full of uncertainties, but I’m still curious to see if you have any predictions of any modern books that might one day be regarded as a classic.
I personally haven’t read any that falls under this category. When I think of classics like To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm, or even childrens classics like The Velveteen Rabbit, it’s difficult for me to see exactly what actually made them classics. But maybe you’re better at this than I am. And I would love to hear your guesses on which you think will be a classic one day.
If I had to choose one, I’d hesitantly say The Hunger Games, as it’s easy to read but also has a lot to say about challenging a Communist regime. It was assigned in high school back in 2010. So at least one English teacher saw some literary value in it.
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The Expanse saga, at least in the scifi circles. It’s just a really good scifi/space opera and the TV series will boost its popularity even further.
The govt in the Hunger Games is not communist; it’s very obviously a critique of capitalism and the overconsumption and huge class differences that come along with it.
I’m sure it never will, but Tiger Moody’s Induction of The Sycophant is a great look at morality and bias, and how we are all blind to our own biases and bigotries and how it makes the good we want to do fall flat.