21st Century

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon - Sam Clay struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - rights of abused Muslim women and religious freedom
• The March by Edgar Lawrence Doctorow - about General Sherman's march during the US Civil War and how people of the South were slaughtered
• Machine Man by Max Barry - biotechnology helping people with disabilities
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - depicts a futuristic world where everyone escapes reality by plugging into a virtual utopia
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - the text references many comics, movies, and other books in order to describe events
• Themes in Literature in 21st Century

  • Identity
  • History and Memory
  • Technology
  • Intertextuality
• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - Author of The Hobbit
• March 25th - Tolkien Reading Day
• Clive Staples Lewis - author of Chronicles of Narnia
• Suzanne Collins - author of Hunger Games
• The Game of thrones - George Raymond Richard Martin
• The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
• 3 idiots - 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy film
• My Name is Khan - story of an Indian Muslim man who suffers from the Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that impacts social interaction abilities. He is arrested mistakenly as a suspected terrorist in post-9/11 Los Angeles.
• Crazy Rich Asians is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan, highlights and ridicules the lifestyle of upper-class Asian families and society
• Parasite - 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho
• Your Name by Makoto Shinkai depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies
• 2gether - A student named Tine wants to get rid of an unwanted admirer so his friends recommend getting a pretend boyfriend. Though reluctant at first, Sarawat finally agrees and the two become close despite their relationship not being real.
• Doll House - A troubled lead singer of a rock band sets out to rekindle the relationship he never had with his long-lost daughter.