/lit/ - Literature

>>9142029
>>9142053
First do Harold Bloom's favorites, and favorite authors of public figures you respect.

Award winner longlists for Man Booker, Premiya Bolshaya Kniga, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, National Book Awards, Commonwealth Prize, sometimes the Nobel. I also like country awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_State_Prize_for_European_Literature)) because they are less well known and thus less open to political force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_awards

Note I didn't say winners, because that is often political. The NYRB, London Review and the New Yorker are liberal as fuck (and I care about that less than most, but Zadie Smith does not deserve 1/10 what is written about her), but they can still do decent reviews when they arent complaining about this or that: I found Chirbes and Ferrante through them. If you need further right The New Criterion, American Conservative, and Lapham's Quarterly have great recommendations. Contemporary book threads here actually are great once they get past the whole 'contemporary threads are shit", Philip Roth is still contemporary and his novels are obviously masterpieces.