Taking "novels" at face value and sticking to book-length works of fiction, here's my personal, idiosyncratic top ten (skewed toward superb, but less-well-known, titles) followed by a more general survey of writers who produce Good Stuff. read more
Taking "novels" at face value and sticking to book-length works of fiction, here's my personal, idiosyncratic top ten (skewed toward superb, but less-well-known, titles) followed by a more general survey of writers who produce Good Stuff. read more
They are some of the best, and certainly the most popular, historical novels ever published; and the meticulously recreated maritime setting plays a large part in that uniqueness. Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin (1964) A bona fide Fantasy masterpiece, Le Guin's Earthsea novels are set in a world that is all ocean, dotted with myriad little islands. read more