Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Le Chercheur d'Or

This was part of my Nobel Price winners project which is progressing very slowly, I might add. The reason I regard it as a good book is a certain dreaminess attached to an interesting story about the futility of life.

Lev Grossman - The Magicians

More of a feel-good story than the last one, but a bit of swashbuckling fun. The story does not actually promise more than entertainment, but it does it fairly well.

C. S. Friedman - Feast of Souls

More of a magic story than a work of art; still a newer take on the whole "I can make my enemies go boom if I snap my fingers" kind of stories which has been so common lately, and friedman generally creates interesting characters.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

Well, one has to like the ambition of it. I am not entirely certain I will enjoy this when the sequels come, but as a start of a series it is a whole lot better than most... So it is on the list for the promise it makes of more to come.

Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World

How can one not love a story which is essentially fight club with ninjas and mimes? Toss in a healthy bit of physics, and we have a winner. Not sold yet? Your loss, see if I care.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - El Juego del Angel

A story in a similar vein as the shadow of the wind, only a bit more polished, and not as... engaging. Still, old barcelona, lots of depravity, etc. etc. It is a very good book, it is just that it is measured against it's predecessor, which is unfair to just about any book about mystery things happening to authors in barcelona visiting the library of lost books (graveyard? Can't at the moment remember the name)

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I really hope it says Yevgeny Zamyatin up there and not "Your mother was a goat", but this is a good book, one can clearly see where orwell got his influences - the uncritical view of supergovernment made it interesting, and then there were mathematics; what's not to love?

and, from what I have read of it so far
Cory Doctorow - Little Brother

I am only about halfway in, but since the reading of this book coincides with the first time ever suicide bomber in sweden (who was just as competent at that as swedish people in general are at their jobs) and I can see every little move made towards a more supervised society, the story itself holds a certain interest to me, even if some of the things envisaged are clearly an example of american paranoia, and is therefore to be recommended. That was a run-on sentence, I hope people can follow it.


Not 10 books, but I really didn't feel comfortable bringing up the others.