NPR book meme

I finally fit that NPR Sci-Fi/Fantasy book list meme that's been doing the rounds into my busy schedule of ways to procrastinate on useful activities.  This list includes a lot of damn good books, but it also has some huge problems.  The most obvious is that it is disproportionately books by white men, even beyond the diversity problems in the genre as a whole. The way they lumped together some huge series as one entry while others are split up or only have one book on the list is somewhat mystifying.    One of the rules was that young adult books aren't allowed, which I think is a rather artificial distinction given how many YA books appeal to adults and how many of the "adult" books on the list I read as a tween or teen.

I've completely read 36 of the 100 entries (using "read" loosely; two of those I only took in as audiobooks and one through hearing my dad read it aloud.)  I also included sugestions of books I think should have been on the list at the end.

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