I'm awaiting The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. Oh, and by the way, Thank You Skimom for recommending her. I doubt i would have started reading her if not for you! In the meantime (it took some time, its a huge book) i read the Brothers Karamazov by Dostojevskij. Great book. It takes a bit accostomizing to get used to the pace but its certainly worth it. He is without a doubt one of the greatest of the great. You just dont shake off his characters quickly. You think about them, wonder about them and the themes that his books play with.Karamazov, The Idiot and Crime and Punishment are his three greatest novels. But hes also responsible for the darkest novel i ever read (Conrads Hearts of Darkness is nothing in comparison) called Notes from a cellarhole (i gave it new life a think, perhaps a different title in english) written during a depression and it shows. Many authors from this time will probably be forgotten in say 75-100 years but i think Atwood stands a real good chance of surviving this test of time. Same with Joyce Carol Oates, same with King because he basically raised the horrorgenre from the dead, gave it new life and new directions. All of their books will of course not survive but enough of them to make men and women not even born yet look at them with reverence. If, that is, they have even a passing interest for literature and not sit around and play games on their phones instead.