Oh course it's a high bar! Why should anyone care about this work outside of the time of their release? It's modern culture but it ain't gonna be passed down anytime soon.
If the bar is that people will continue reading their books in 200 years, than which fiction writers of the last few decades would go into your list of "good"?
If the bar is that people will continue reading their books in 200 years, than which fiction writers of the last few decades would go into your list of "good"?