Monday, February 2, 2015

A fix for our broken (some say) book-nomination process?

What should I read next?

Kinda fun, if often weird in its selections. I gave it a try with a few of our better-reviewed (by us) choices and got these results:


A Visit from the Goon Squad gives Steve Martin - An Object of Beauty

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay gives Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress of Solitude

A Game of Thrones gives Greg Keyes - The Charnel Prince

Master and Commander gives Patrick O'Brien - Post Captain (Rather a safe choice, as it's the sequel to M&C. But I approve.)

A Few Seconds of Panic gives David Foster Wallace - This Is Water

Perdido Street Station gives Michael Swanwick - The Iron Dragon's Daughter

The Sparrow gives Robert J Sawyer - Flash Forward [Okay, it didn't. That's result 2. The first result was Fitzgerald John D , Mayer Mercer - The Great Brain at the Academy. That's good, but just nuts.]

Hunting Eichmann gives Robert Mayer - The Dreams of Ada

Persepolis gives Alison Bechdel - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

American Gods and Sandman both give Warren Ellis et al. - Transmetropolitan : The New Scum

The Night Circus gives Yangsze Choo - The Ghost Bride

The Orphan Master's Son gives George Saunders - Tenth of December: Stories

And Wolf Hall, our current book, leads to A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven.


Note that in each case the recommendation list is much longer; I just grabbed the top result. Except for The Sparrow.

3 comments:

  1. What, no Shape of the Boar? You really hated that book, didn't you?

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  2. (Shudder.) The suggestion to follow In the Shape of the Boar is Green Eggs and Ham. As read by Jesse Jackson, which is pretty much the best thing ever.

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  3. Not really. It's Julian Barnes - Staring at the Sun, about which I have nothing funny to say.

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