Normal People — Sally Rooney (2018)

Sally Rooney's Normal People — the story of Connell and Marianne's intermittent, emotionally complex relationship from Irish secondary school to Trinity College Dublin — became the defining literary novel of the millennial generation: a book about class, communication, desire, and the modern difficulty of being known by another person. The Hulu/BBC adaptation with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal made it a global cultural moment.