My inevitable response to The Guardian’s click-bait list is this list of a randomised 100 novels I have purchased online, read and enjoyed in the years since I had Gmail and used Amazon – as it was the easiest way to search. I’ve tried to only include one book from any series I devoured (and that is a regular pathway for my reading – so not all of the Expanse, Spenser PI etc) and had to remember reading them! Pretty light on women writers which is a weakness I know and it is safe to say that Literature A level and degree didn’t provide me a particularly refined ‘palette’. 1. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi 2. Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane 3. Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg 4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty 6. Slow Horses by Mick Herron 7. Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson 8. Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby 9. The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi 10. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 11. Painted Ladies by…
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