Great Modern Authors?

lizzey_in_

I am always hearing about the great modern authors and that I should read them, but when I go to the store to buy something, I can't make heads or tails of any of it. Who are the great modern authors and what should I read of theirs?

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Jhumpa Lahiri's collection 'Interpreter of Maladies' is great.
Anne Tyler: 'The Accidental Tourist' and 'Breathing Lessons'.
John Irving: The Hotel New Hampshire', 'The Wordl According to Garp'
'Case Histories' by Kate Atkinson

When you said you couldn't make heads nor tails of modern authors you reminded me of a book by B.R Myers called 'A Reader's Manifesto', which really picks apart today's so called "great writers". I recommend that too.

Other than that, enh...

The modern day Great Gatsby book?

Mz.MiMi

There is a book that can be considered the modern day Great Gatsby. It has teenage characters, and was written a few years ago. Does anyone know what that book is?
JAKE REINVENTED!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I was going to die if I didn't think of the name of that book. Thanks for your answers!! :)

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I first think of the 'Gossip Girls' series... it's materialistic; includes older teens; was written a few years ago...
...includes innocence, drugs, troubles, romances, returns to older values and all The Great Gatsby has in it.

Book One covers it all pretty well.

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