Well known modern authors?

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Hi,

I am a Junior in High school.
I'm sad to say that I believe the majority of teenagers now a days do not enjoy a good book and are too busy with things such as video games and television.

I'm pretty well-versed in literature, if there are any well known modern artists' works you would recommend?

I do not plan to be a literature major ( I want to go into engineering), but I would like to be somewhat well- versed in modern literature. I don't want to end up getting to college and look like an idiot who doesn't know about many modern authors.


In Summary:


What modern works do you recommend?
What is a list of modern authors that most well-versed people have heard of? (From the 20th/ 21st century)
rl stine.. seriously.. id rather read stephen king.
I appreciate the comments of bummface (Thanks for the extensive list) some are already on books I want to read or have read, and I will look into the other books as well! :]

Same goes to Comrade, I'm currently reading Cat's Cradle, so I'll definetely check him out.
 
Chuck Palahniuk. I started reading his stuff when I was a junior in high school, and 3 years later, I'm still hooked. If you like stories about kind of f**ked up people, and dark humor, you will like his stuff. He's kind of like Kurt Vonnegut (who I'd also highly recommend), but more modern and twisted. Two of his books have been made into movies, if you've seen "Fight Club" or the more recent one "Choke", he wrote those. Besides those two I'd recommend, "Invisable Monsters", or "Survivor" by him. Also you can't go wrong with anything by Hunter S. Thompson.
 
Virginia Woolf and the other postmodernists are good but that might be going a bit too far back.

More recently, I've read "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" by Jon McGregor. it's a fairly quick read but it's beautifully written and really touching. a great human interest story.

Also try:
Netherland- Joseph O'Neill
Papillon- Henry Charriere
Firmin- Sam Savage


I mostly Victorian literature but these are some modern books I have really enjoyed.
 
JK Rowling is probably the best known author anywhere.

Stephenie Meyer is also well known, even though she can hardly count as an author - her books are atrocious, they disgrace hard working writers trying to get their books on the market.
 
I recommend fantasy genre or classical/real life situations.

The list:
1. J.K.Rowling
2. Stephenie Meyer
3. Christopher Paolini
4. Paulo Coehlo
5. J.D. Salinger
6. Jodi Picoult
 
Well there's an author named Stephanie Meyer and she is an author of (I think) 6 books.

Her books are bestsellers and one of her books was turned into a movie. Her other books will also be turned into a movie.

Some of her Books are:
-Twilight Series-
1) Twilight
2) New Moon
3) Eclipse
4) Breaking Dawn
5) Midnight Sun

1) The Host

I dont know If you'll like it.. but that's what I know. The Twilight Series is actually about a vampire falling in love with a human.
 
Jack Kerouac, Anthony Burgess, Charles Bukowsi, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, George Orwell, Philip Roth, F Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, Hunter S Thompson to name a few

I recommend On the Road by Kerouac, A Clockwork Orange by Burgess, Post Office by Bukowsi, Breakfast at Tiffanys or In Cold Blood by Capote, Howl by Ginsberg, 1984 or Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell, American Folk by Roth, Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Orlando by Woolf,the Plague by Camus and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by HST

If you choose to read any of these hope you enjoy
 
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