Which recent books do you think will become classics?

All of this John Henry Styles' books.

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@ilovharrypotter I agree with you on that one... Harry Potter is awesome...

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11/22/63 by Stephen King is an instant classic... Trust me, this is an awesome time-travel story, and by far one of the best novels I've read from him...

Another one is The Poet by Michael Connelly... I personally think it's the best novel he ever wrote... I'd dare anyone to prove me wrong on that...

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Harry Potter has been phenomenal for it's time, but not sure if it will last. Difficult to compare as the book and film success has been off the chart, but the story is on par with The Worse Witch and other great children's books for their time that faded away...

The Kite Runner is already being taught in schools, so that's going to go down as a classic. The curious incident of the dog is bound to grow and grow. but otherwise very hard to say. Remember works such as The Great Gatsby flopped for the first 20 years of their lives, so who's to say what will be remembered...

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Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, and sadly Twilight. As much as I don't want it too, the movies are gonna be on constant reruns in the future and somebody's kid is gonna be like "What is this mom?" and then that mom is gonna have to explain how this one crappy-ish book became so popular back in the 2000's. *Sigh* It's ineveitable.

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The Harry Potter Series will be classics. They are read from little kids to people in their 70's and 80's. And is not only for girls but for boys. J.K Rowling is incredible and created a whole new world with new words, new places, new creatures, spells, people, and rules. Which most authors these days struggle with. I think Twilight is really overrated. Sorry but its mostly for younger teenage girls, even though I am, it was hard to get through the first book. And The Hunger Games is no where near to become a classic, My opinion.

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Every Stephen King book I've read is worthy of becoming a classic. Also, my all time favorite book, The Book Thief will indubitably become a classic.

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For those of you who think twilight should become a classic, I strongly disagree. It has an idiotic heroine that obsesses way to much over her boyfriend, and that's just the beginning of how stupid it is. I wouldn't even consider it a book; I don't see how it would deserve to be called a classic.

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Harry Potter, hands down, no competition. Harry Potter will be a classic, I a guarentee it. And I do have proof, well I don't know if this actually will make sure it has a spot in classics but anyways, me and at least thirty other people that I know of will make our future children read it and make sure that their children read it and so forth and so forth. :D

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@TowerOfCookies I wish it would, Percy Jackson is amazing but I don't think its written well enough to be a much loved classic in a hundred years. Please don't kill me. Honestly I love it, but I don't think PJ is quite classics material.

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Also, people who think The Hunger Games will be a classic, I believe you're wrong. Don't get me wrong, I love them and I think they're brilliant books, but they aren't something that will be read for generations... they'll probably be heard of but they won't be classics. Actually most dystopian fiction probably won't become classics. That just my opinion though.

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@Sherlock221b Dystopian novels? 1984, Handmaid's Tale, Farenheit 451. All Dystopian Novels and all what should be considered classics. I don't think you can discount the Hunger Games purely because of its genre.

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@littlemissmoonshoes And don't forget Brave New World. That's one of my personal favorites. Other than Fahrenheit 451 and Martian Chronicles [actually, MC is completely unrelated to dystopian novels, except for the fact that its also by Ray Bradbury. Did you know he died a few weeks ago? :( ]

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@ThePinkyandTheBrain What? No I didn't know :(

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@littlemissmoonshoes I'm sorry i was the one to bear the news. /_\

RIP Ray Bradbury. I wish I could have met you.....

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I got a writer that sadly no one really knows about but his books, they r a bit older than 10 yr's (1990's+) but they are EPIC!!!!!! The AMAZING writer 'Christopher Pike' <333 His books kept me up at night, thinking about it AND he is the person who got me writing!!! I <333 U CHRISTOPHER PIKE!!! My fav by him is from 1991, so it's old but BRILIANT! it's called 'Burry me Deep' read it!

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So this is an old book, but it's not a classic yet, but it'll still be around when it reaches it's hundred year mark. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I don't think many people will know about it, but it's a really good read. Also, maybe The Grapes of Wrath.

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I believe harry potter, Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia have the potential to become classics.

No offence to Twilight fans but I think that is just a fase. That book will be forgotten in ten, fifteen years.

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@LadySaphira22 I completely agree with you. All three series that you listed definitely have classic potential, but Twilight, as much as I enjoyed it a few years ago, will NEVER be a classic. It's a book that teenage girls read for the vampire fad and the love story combination. When a new fad comes around, Twilight's going to be long forgotten as it gets taken off bookshelves and replaced by the next big thing.

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@Kittydc Oh my gosh. You read Christopher Pike too. The man is a genius. I love his work. He is one of my absolutely favourite authors. Actually, he ranks number one, followed closely by Melissa Marr and Meg Cabot. My favourites by Chris P are Remember Me, The Midnight Club and the first ever book I read by him, his The Last Vampire Saga. I'm sad that it's so hard to get my hands on his books because they are awesome.

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@MarieRiver Thanks!

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@LadySaphira22 you're welcome.

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@MarieRiver I have yet to read Things Fall Apart but I did read Anthills of the Savannah years ago in a post-colonial lit course, I really should get to that book one of these days.

Some really good titles in this thread: If you made it through Dhalgren you are a better reader than I am @chiralphenomena. I may try that one again some time, but it really lost me. Some good dystopian titles here too.

Not quite sure what to add, but here goes:

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski The Road - Cormac McCarthy

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@JamesBambury, its a really good book. Things Fall Apart really shows you the truth behind the ways of Africa before the Europeans invaded and how their presence changed the society, both in good ways and bad ones. I'm just sad that I don't know many of the titles in this discussion. Then again, old books are hard to find where I live so I have no way of learning about them except through discussions like this. How was Anthills of the Savannah?

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That seems to fit with the description I was given as it being a response to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It's been quite a while since I read Anthills...and that was in the flux of reading something every week for the course I was in, but it covered some very similar ground. It wasn't until the later part of university that I got wiser and started working through reading lists over the summer so I actually retained more of the plots.

Don't feel bad if you don't know too many titles here.

Most of the titles that aren't popular books are pretty dense and sometimes pretty obscure. You can probably find e-books of just about anything mentioned here from proper booksellers or "other" places.

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