So the New York Times had a whole list of best 100 books of the last 25 years, and while I agree with some of the choices, I found some choices really predictable and unfun, and sometimes baffling. Honesty, I cannot be the only person in the word who want a bomb to hurry up and kill everyone in Atonement (yes, I know how it ends. I hate that book). Here's my list. I've allowed ties, included fun books, and have start to post this knowing that my list could very change by next week.
100. My Lady’s Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa
Zageris
This is
a Choose Your Own Adventure romance book style.
You can become a pirate, marry a Scot, marry a woman, or even not get
married at all. It’s all good fun and
absolutely great. It was a close call
between this one, and the Choose Your Own Adventure recent books – Spies:
Mary Bowser by Kyandreia Jones and Spies: Noor Inayat Khan by Rana Tahir.
99. Warlock Holmes Series by G. S. Denning. What if Sherlock Holmes was actually a wizard and the various Inspectors were vampires and such. Denning takes Doyle’s original Sherlock stories and puts a supernatural twist to them. Throughout it all , Watson is just trying to be a Victorian male. The effect is both laugh out loud funny and surprisingly touching at times.
98. Holding by
Graham Norton. Norton’s ( yes, that
Graham Norton) novel is about love, life, and death. It is a touching mystery novel.
97. Moon and the Mars by Kia Corthron. The heroine of this novel lives in pre-Civil
War NYC and is mixed race. The novel
touches on most major events but gives each a person touch. Massive but powerful writing.
96. Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn
Rusch. You know that episode of Star
Trek The Next Generation where young Mister Crusher almost gets killed? That’s what this series. It is to Rusch’s credit that not everyone is innocent. The strong supporting cast also helps carry
the book.
95. I Hate Fairyland (series) by Skottie Young. Peter Pan got it wrong about never growing
up. Skottie Young gets it right, and
there is a sequence of Labyrinth references
as well. It is the demented
mixture of bright colors and crazy.
94. Curse Words (series) by Charles Soule. This comic series is about wizards who find
themselves in our world and what comes from that, is also a touching look at
grief. It also sticks the landing.
93. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. Dimaline’s dystopia novel follows a group of
First Nation teens as they struggle to survive a world that even wants to steal
their bone marrow.
92. Love (series) by Frederic Brremaud. This series of graphic novels chronicles the
adventure of various animals – tiger, fox, dinosaur, lion, dog. In some volumes, the mixture of animals may
not make sense, but the art work is stunning.
91. The Five by Hallie Rubenhold. Rubenhold writes Jack the Ripper’s victims
back into the narrative. Her book
chronicles the women’s lives. Extremely
readable.
90. Crashed by
Adam Tooze. This thick doorstep of a
book details the financial collapse and how it changed things.
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