Fun list! Surprising there's no Terry Pratchett and therefore no Discworld. No Tom Clancy (Jack Ryan series). Sophie's World was so huge in the mid 1990s that seems like a snub since it was such a...
Fun list!
Surprising there's no Terry Pratchett and therefore no Discworld. No Tom Clancy (Jack Ryan series).
Sophie's World was so huge in the mid 1990s that seems like a snub since it was such a one-off.
No Ian Fleming so no James Bond?
No Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis?
Life of Pi by Yann Martel surely deserves a spot in the last bracket.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett surely deserves a spot just for the hundreds of millions of school children who have had this novel shape their early imaginations.
Some authors seem very heavily represented, and in several cases that's worthwhile.
There's very little Non-western literature here, as the compiler also notes. No Haruki Murakami though? The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini had an important role in showing the West that Afghanistan was more than a place to invade with people and a culture they didn't know anything about.
Lists are always hard. This is a pretty good one. I hope others have adventure books to suggest from this period! They're some of the best books, and I expect some of the books people will continue to read in the future because they're exciting and attention-gripping.
Fun list!
Surprising there's no Terry Pratchett and therefore no Discworld. No Tom Clancy (Jack Ryan series).
Sophie's World was so huge in the mid 1990s that seems like a snub since it was such a one-off.
Some authors seem very heavily represented, and in several cases that's worthwhile.
There's very little Non-western literature here, as the compiler also notes. No Haruki Murakami though? The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini had an important role in showing the West that Afghanistan was more than a place to invade with people and a culture they didn't know anything about.
Lists are always hard. This is a pretty good one. I hope others have adventure books to suggest from this period! They're some of the best books, and I expect some of the books people will continue to read in the future because they're exciting and attention-gripping.