Top Ten Tuesday : 21st Century Books I Think Will Become Classics
29 March 2022
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: 21st Century Books I Think Will Become Classics, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s topic is:
21st Century Books I Think Will Become Classics
I really like this topic. It makes you sit and think. I had a much longer longlist (hence the name eh!) and had to narrow this down. I started off with books that I was thinking are already pretty huge in terms of massive ratings on Goodreads and elsewhere – such as Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander or GRRM’s Game of Thrones. Then I thought about choosing some of my more recent reads. Ultimately I’ve gone for a mix of newish and slightly older reads. In no particular order, here they are:
The Red Queen’s War series by Mark Lawrence
The Bone Ships (The Tide Child) by RJ Barker
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium series) by Stieg Larsson
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Books and travelling with Lynn 
Great post, Lynn! I can not wait to check some of these out.. I’ve never even heard of ‘The Memoirs of Lady Trent.’
Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful week!
Ooh, I love the Lady Trent books, they’re so good.
Lynn 😀
I think I’m really going to enjoy that series, thank you!
So many great reads here 😀
Mexican Gothic is one of those books I still think about now and again. I loved the house and the characters and the whole atmosphere of it.
The Silent Companions and Ten Thousand Doors were also favourites for me, and I remember being hooked on the Millennium series when I read that too.
I did have a much longer list of potentials for this one – I have to say I’ve read some excellent books over the last few years.
Lynn 😀
The Tide Child trilogy is one of the series that left an indelible mark on me, which is not surprising, given that I became a fan of the author since the first book in his previous trilogy… 🙂
Yes,I love The Tide Child – such a fantastic ending.
Lynn 😀
I think you chose some really good books for this topic. I love seeing The Bone Ships on here, as well as The Last House on Needless Street. And I agree with your choice of the Stieg Larsson trilogy!
I loved the Stieg Larsson books – well, I’ve only read the first three – but they were great.
Lynn 😀
Mexican Gothic is a great choice, and I was thinking about including Ten Thousand Doors too (just ran out of space and had to make some tough choices!). I also included The Song of Achilles — such a beautiful book. Great list!
Thanks, yes, I also had a much longer list to begin and had to make some of those tough choices.
Lynn 😀