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baddspellar t1_j1m52nv wrote

I don't think this is a valid generalization at all. There are plenty of new books with strong character development and older books without it. You're just reading the wrong books.

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Potential_Crisis OP t1_j1nur4u wrote

have any good new book recs?

book-tok hasn't been fruitful, and even literary magazines aren't promising.

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baddspellar t1_j1nzjwp wrote

Sure. Here are some books off the top of my head:

These two were on the 2022 booker long list

Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan

Trust, by Hernan Diaz

This was a stunning debut in the Historical Fiction genra

Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson

Here's a science fiction book that was unusually character driven

Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St John Mandel

Then there's this, which is pretty much all character development

A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

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