Have you ever considered that the classics we read today were once contemporaries of their time? So it will be in years to come, that some of the books we read now will become classics of the future.

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Kathleen says":
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Julia's Classics Predictions (based pretty much on their lovely prose):
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Rudeb7 says:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

"Beyond Those Horizons: an epic novelette" by Saba Sophiya Hasan.

Beringia says:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Frank says:
Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell
the Five People You Meet in Heaven
Elantris

Jody Says: The God of Small Things, Cider House Rules, Possession, The Things They Carried

Cybrarian Says:
Jasper Fforde's the Eyre and Affair and other Thursday Next novels - I can't wait for the next installment - sci-fi, fantasy, literary characters, humor and rolled into one package!!!
Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins

MichaelBeezner says, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safron Foer

Anonymous says:

What is the basis for saying something is a classic? For me, it's when the writing reaches a perfection of beauty.

The following choices are therefore based on this ambition:

Frances Johnson, by Stacey Levine

The Remains of River Names, by Matt Briggs

The Gifts of the Body, by Rebecca Brown

The Sex Offender, by Matthew Stadler

Admittedly, I have not demonstrated that these are classics. However, I am serious about these choices. These are not just books that uplifted my spirit or whatever, but rather reached me on a higher level. I don't want to simply promote these books. I want them to be read. All these books should be read for their specifics, for eye clicking, erotic touching, rocks thrown through windows, or the sound of a dying man's voice. It is in these particulars that make other worlds more visible, a world not less, but more, than real.

Mister K says: On Beauty, by Zadie Smith, The Monkeywrench Gang, by Edward Abbey, and Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner.