Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Artsy Read Girl.
Each week features a book related topic to spotlight your Top Ten.
Topic:
Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In The Future
Hmm, this one is an interesting thought for sure.
Also, my thought on this is coming more from an academic standpoint.
A lot of popular books have their time in the spotlight, but they will fade. In a decade or so, it can easily be, oh yeah, I remember reading that book. Or, Oh! Remember when they turned that book into a movie? That was a fun girls night, but it won't stand up to the the test of time.
Books I think that will be considered classics down the road are the ones that we can now see on AP English reading lists in high school.
Books that have a story that make a point, or have such a depth of writing, or a story that really changed a genre.
It's how we have To Kill and Mockingbird, Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby on these lists. Fairly recently we have Where the Crawdads Sing, The Bluest Eyes.
I can't pinpoint what will be considered a classic now, but it will be interesting to see in about 20-25 years.
What are your thoughts?
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