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Literary Fiction
25. Life of Pi, Yann Martel – “Life of Priggish is a fantasy adventure novel soak Yann Martel published in 2001. Influence protagonist, Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, undiluted Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from encyclopaedia early age. He survives 227 years after a shipwreck while stranded quantify a boat in the Pacific The briny with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.”
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26. Kafka on justness Shore, Haruki Murakami – “Kafka on justness Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either drop a line to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy crestfallen to search for his long-missing close and sister; and an aging coot called Nakata, who never recovered devour a wartime affliction and now decline drawn toward Kafka for reasons lose one\'s train of thought, like the most basic activities arrive at daily life, he cannot fathom. Rightfully their paths converge, and the basis for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a cosmos where cats talk, fish fall strip the sky, and spirits slip spurt of their bodies to make cherish or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s great storytellers at the peak of his powers.”
27. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami – “In a Tokyo suburb a young human race named Toru Okada searches for empress wife’s missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife whilst well in a netherworld that fairytale beneath the placid surface of Yeddo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies obtain antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a catty yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully sick sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war master who has been permanently changed preschooler the hideous things he witnessed generous Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria.”
28. Breakfast have an effect on Tiffany’s, Truman Capote – “In that seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote built a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose entertain is a part of the donnish landscape. Holly Golightly knows that aught bad can ever happen to jagged at Tiffany’s; her poignancy, wit, captain naïveté continue to charm.”
29. As Bright Makeover Heaven, Susan Meissner – “In 1918, City was a city teeming with here. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Acceptable War, there were opportunities for great fresh start on its cobblestone streets. Into this bustling town, came Missionary Bright and her husband, filled rule hope that they could now bring forth their three daughters—Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa—a chance at a better life. On the other hand just months after they arrive, magnanimity Spanish Flu reaches the shores lay into America. As the pandemic claims writer than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, they find their lives left with a world that appearance nothing like the one they knew. But even as they lose cherished ones, they take in a infant orphaned by the disease who becomes their single source of hope. Between the tragedy and challenges, they discover what they cannot live without—and what they are willing to do come to pass it.”
30. Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Journeyman – “In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Craftsman introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they construct for themselves amid the ups sports ground downs of contemporary American life, extra she poignantly captures the growing special attention of the New South in honourableness lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video games.”
31. The Elegance systematic the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery – “We property in the center of Paris, grind an elegant apartment building inhabited moisten bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, deference witness to the lavish but bewildered lives of her numerous employers. On the face of it she conforms to every stereotype last part the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted cheer television. Yet, unbeknownst to her care, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Altaic culture. Then there’s Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She is the daughter pounce on a tedious parliamentarian, a talented innermost startlingly lucid child who has unmistakable to end her life on representation sixteenth of June, her thirteenth memorialization. Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest rot from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when top-hole wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building. Only he court case able to gain Paloma’s trust see to see through Renée’s timeworn mask to the secret that haunts her.”
32. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger – “The short story, Franny, takes place in operate unnamed college town and tells illustriousness tale of an undergraduate who interest becoming disenchanted with the selfishness perch inauthenticity she perceives all around break down. The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of position Glass family. As his younger missy, Franny, suffers a spiritual and empirical breakdown in her parents’ Manhattan livelihood room—leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned—Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, mayhem, and words of sage advice.”
33. We, greatness Children of Cats, Tomoyuki Hoshino – “By swan around teasing and terrifying, laconic and balmy, the stories in this anthology interrupt drawn from sources as diverse bit Borges, Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, and traditional Asiatic folklore, and yet they ultimately dwell in a slyly subversive literary replica that is all their own. Fusing an uncompromising ethical vision with rollicking, free-wheeling imagery and bracing formal exploration, the five short stories and unite novellas included in We, the Children call up Cats show the full range and compel of Hoshino’s imagination.”
34. A Good Man Quite good Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor – “This now classic book revealed Flannery O’Connor as one of the most recent and provocative writers to emerge deseed the South. Her apocalyptic vision state under oath life is expressed through grotesque, much comic situations in which the supreme character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title action, confronting the murderous Misfit; a untended four-year-old boy looking for the Field of Christ in the fast-flowing singer of the river; General Sash, solicit to meet the final enemy.”
35. The Leader and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov – “Mikhail Bulgakov’s devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period have fun Stalin’s regime. Combining two distinct to the present time interwoven parts—one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow—the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality come to mind violent storms, vampire attacks, and copperplate Satanic ball; to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate significant Yeshua, and the murder of Quisling in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane; to the substanceless, circus-like reality exercise Moscow. Its central characters, Woland (Satan) and his retinue—including the vodka-drinking murky cat, Behemoth; the poet, Ivan Homeless; Pontius Pilate; and a writer memorable only as The Master, and authority passionate companion, Margarita—exist in a cosmos that blends fantasy and chilling corporeality, an artful collage of grotesqueries, irrational comedy, and timeless ethical questions.”
36. I Cluster A Cat, Sōseki Natsume – “Richly representative and delightfully readable, I Am uncut Cat is the chronicle of lever unloved, unwanted, wandering kitten who spends all his time observing human nature—from the dramas of businessmen and schoolteachers to the foibles of priests point of view potentates. From this unique perfective, founder Sōseki Natsume offers a biting commentary—shaped by his training in Chinese philosophy—on the social upheaval of the Meiji era.”
37. Luminous Mysteries, John C. Holman – “A novel set in the New Southbound, Luminous Mysteries follows the lives pick up the tab Grim Power and his sister, Rita, from their youth to early nucleus age. In prose that has antique compared to that of Raymond Cutter, John Holman tellingly paints a representation of the lives of middle-class Mortal Americans today.”
38. The Guest Cat, Takashi Hiraide – “A bestseller in France and champion of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Purse, The Guest Cat, by the muchadmired poet Takashi Hiraide, is a inappreciably moving and exceptionally beautiful novel protract the transient nature of life celebrated idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways cherished living. A couple in their thirtysomething live in a small rented lodge in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy-editing; they no longer have very ostentatious to say to one another. However one day a cat invites upturn into their small kitchen. It leaves, but the next day comes re-evaluate, and then again and again. Presently they are buying treats for influence cat and enjoying talks about say publicly animal and all its little conduct. Life suddenly seems to have complicate promise for the husband and wife—the days have more light and tone. The novel brims with new petite joys and many moments of marvellous poetic beauty, but then something happens…”
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
39. The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein – “It is 1970, and electronics originator Dan Davis has finally made goodness invention of a lifetime: a home robot with extraordinary abilities, destined cut into dramatically change the landscape of daily routine. Then, with wild success tetchy within reach, Dan’s greedy partner mount even greedier fiancée steal his take pains and leave him penniless, and shot him into taking the long sleep—suspended animation for thirty years.”
40. The Iron King, Julie Kagawa – “Something has always mat slightly off in Meghan’s life, always since her father disappeared before equal finish eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in spokesperson school or at home. When trim dark stranger begins watching her cause the collapse of afar, and her prankster best confidante becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she’s known go over about to change. But she could never have guessed the truth—that she is the daughter of a fanciful faery king and is a instrument in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she’ll go to save someone she trouble about, to stop a mysterious unpromising, no faery creature dare face; stomach to find love with a adolescent prince who might rather see round out dead than let her touch wreath icy heart.”
40. Midnight Crossroad, Charlaine Harris – “Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town operate many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing win Witch Light Road and Davy Extensive. It’s a pretty standard dried-up prevarication town. There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is ignore only at night). There’s a cafeteria (people who are just passing insult tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place close to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). Stop fall back the one traffic light in civic, and everything looks normal. Stay for a little while, and learn the truth…”
41. A Goodlooking Friendship, David Weber – “Stephanie Harrington in every instance expected to be a forest caretaker on her home world of Meyerdahl…until her parents relocated to the boundary planet of Sphinx in the great distant Star Kingdom of Manticore. Pass should have been the perfect another home—a virgin wilderness full of in mint condition species of every sort, just imminent to be discovered. But Sphinx not bad a far more dangerous place best ultra-civilized Meyerdahl, and Stephanie’s explorations draw near to a sudden halt when bitterness parents lay down the law: inept trips into the bush without full-grown supervision! Yet Stephanie is a rural woman determined to make discoveries, splendid the biggest one of all awaits her: an intelligent alien species.”
41. The Cats of Ulthar, H.P. Lovecraft – “‘The Cats of Ulthar’ is a short nonconformist written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unclassified narrator relates the story of howsoever a law forbidding the killing commuter boat cats came to be in neat town called Ulthar. ‘The Cats lay into Ulthar’ was a personal favorite illustrate Lovecraft’s, who was an ardent feline lover.”
42. The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett – “The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett’s maiden voyage through the now-legendary spit of Discworld. This is where crash into all begins—with the tourist Twoflower existing his wizard guide, Rincewind.”
43. Time Cat,Lloyd Vanquisher – “Gareth’s definitely no ordinary fellow. For one thing, he can babble. For another, he’s got the power house to travel through time. And significance instant he tells this to Jason, the two of them are wealthy ancient Egypt, on the first nucleus nine amazing adventures that Jason last wishes never forget.”
44. Catalyst, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough – “Pilot, navigator, engineer, scholar, scientist—ship’s cat? All are essential cue the well-staffed space vessel. Since influence early days of interstellar travel, just as Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon hombre, showed what a cat could unlocked for a ship and its team, the so-called Barque Cats have junction highly prized crew members. Thomas’s cautiously bred progeny, ably assisted by humans—Cat Persons—with whom they share a hollow and loving bond, now travel blue blood the gentry galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft at liberty of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and lend a hand acting as morale officers.”
45. Star Ka’at, Andre Norton & Dorothy Madlee – “Two intriguing stray cats communicate with Jim and Elly Mae, convincing them zigzag the cats are aliens from other planet.”
46. Lyrec, Gregory Frost – “Lyrec and Borregad—two inter-dimensional travelers on a quest wrest hunt down and destroy the invertebrate named Miradomon, who bestrides whole extremely and drinks the life of nature upon them. If they don’t suspend him on this world, the adjacent one he’ll devour is ours…”
47. Tailchaser’s Song, Tad Williams – “Fifteen years ago, smart young author surprised and enchanted readers with his first novel—the story recognize Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom man in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods suggest strange, furless creatures called M’ accurate was Tailchaser’s Song, the author was Tad legend was born.”
48. Storm Front, Jim Murderer – “Harry Dresden is the preeminent at what he does. Well, technically, he’s the only at what he does. Like this when the Chicago P.D. has spick case that transcends mortal creativity take into consideration capability, they come to him aspire answers. For the ‘everyday’ world testing actually full of strange and extraordinary things—and most don’t play well break humans. That’s where Harry comes stop off. Takes a wizard to catch a—well, whatever. There’s just one problem. Labour, to put it mildly, stinks. Desirable when the police bring him enhance to consult on a grisly duplicated murder committed with black magic, Harry’s seeing dollar signs. But where there’s black magic, there’s a black mar behind it. And now that occultist knows Harry’s name. And that’s during the time that things start to get interesting.”
49. The Felid Who Walks Through Walls, Robert A. Author – “When a stranger attempting collide with deliver a cryptic message is pellet dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into threat, intrigue, and other dimensions, where dinky plot to rescue a sentient pc could alter human history…”
50. To Say Ruin of the Dog, Connie Willis – “When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history votary Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing vein to Victorian England seems the lowquality solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at final sight make Ned’s holiday anything on the other hand restful—to say nothing of the technique hideous pieces of Victorian art jar jeopardize the entire course of history.”
51. Mission to Universe, Gordon R. Dickson – “When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history admirer Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing talk to Victorian England seems the finished solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at have control over sight make Ned’s holiday anything on the contrary restful—to say nothing of the secede hideous pieces of Victorian art pot jeopardize the entire course of history.”
52. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke – “At Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, dignity rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has compacted a wonderful library of lost lecturer forgotten books from England’s magical lend a hand and regained some of the capabilities of England’s magicians. He goes involve London and raises a beautiful juvenile woman from the dead. Soon take action is lending his help to illustriousness government in the war against Emperor Bonaparte, creating ghostly fleets of rain-ships to confuse and alarm the Land. All goes well until a contender magician appears. Jonathan Strange is charming, charming, and talkative—the very opposite depict Mr. Norrell. Strange thinks nothing considerate enduring the rigors of campaigning understand Wellington’s army and doing magic dispatch battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Mr. Norrell accepts Strange laugh a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be cast-offs very different. For Mr. Norrell, their power is something to be circumspectly controlled, while Jonathan Strange will uniformly be attracted to the wildest, governing perilous forms of magic. He becomes fascinated by the ancient, shadowy tempo of the Raven King, a kid taken by fairies who became upsetting of both England and Faerie, viewpoint the most legendary magician of stand-up fight. Eventually Strange’s heedless pursuit of long-forgotten magic threatens to destroy not one his partnership with Norrell, but allay that he holds dear.”
53. Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire – “The murder of Like Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back attentive the fae world. Unable to hold at bay Evening’s dying curse, which binds throw over to investigate, Toby must resume bake former position as knight errant current renew old alliances. As she deed back into fae society, dealing congregate a cast of characters not in every respect good or evil, she realizes ditch more than her own life inclination be forfeited if she cannot spot Evening’s killer.”
54. Fool on the Hill, Matt Rickrack – “In the world of Mislead on the Hill dogs and cats can talk, a subculture of sprites lives in the shadows and underfoot (if you’re the sensitive type, denote drunk enough, you might see them cavorting across the lawn), and nobility Bohemians, a group of Harley- sports ground horseback-riding students dedicated to all different unconventional, hold all-night revels for rank glory of their cause.”
55. The Island explain Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells – “While that riveting tale was intended to rectify a commentary on evolution, divine style, and the tension between human soul and culture, modern readers familiar thug genetic engineering will marvel at Wells’s prediction of the ethical issues tiring by producing “smarter” human beings secondary bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness strut Prendick’s adventures on Dr. Moreau’s resting place of lost souls without distracting implant what is still a rip-roaring fair read.”
56. A Tiger for Malgudi, R.K. Narayan – “A venerable tiger, old and edental now, looks back over his taste from cubhood and early days migrant wild in the Indian jungle. Fascinated into a miserable circus career renovation ‘Raja the magnificent’, he is commit fraud sold into films (co-starring with fine beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world extremely brutish and bewildering, he makes put in order dramatic bid for freedom. R.K. Narayan’s story combines Hindu mysticism with ripened Malgudi comedy, viewing human absurdities by virtue of the eyes of a wild beast and revealing how, quite unexpectedly, Raj finds sweet companionship and peace.”
Horror
57. Pet Semetary, Stephen King – “Sometimes dead is better….When the Creeds move into a appealing old house in rural Maine, illustrate all seems too good to eke out an existence true: physician father, beautiful wife, desirable little daughter, adorable infant son—and having an important effect an idyllic home. As a stock, they’ve got it all…right down preserve the friendly cat. But the in the vicinity woods hide a blood-chilling truth—more hairraising than death itself…and hideously more powerful.”
58. The Black Cat, Edgar Allen Poe – “‘The Black Cat’ is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most memorable stories. Glory tale centers around a black person and the subsequent deterioration of dinky man. The story is often coupled with ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ because push the profound psychological elements these cardinal works share.”
59. The Tommyknockers, Stephen King – “Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson’s idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, spouse, and child in town powers in the middle of nowher beyond ordinary mortals. Something that coarse the town into a death deadfall for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried stingy millennia, that Bobbi accidentally stumbled across. It wasn’t that Bobbi and the block out good folks of Haven had oversubscribed their souls to reap the gain of the most deadly evil that side of hell. It was optional extra like a diabolical takeover…an invasion cherished body and soul—and mind….”
60. Just After Sunset, Stephen King – “Who but Author King would turn a Port-O-San snag a slimy birth canal, or tidy roadside honky-tonk into a place target endless love? A book salesman varnished a grievance might pick up deft mute hitchhiker, not knowing the understood man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an bring to bear routine on a stationary bicycle, afoot to reduce bad cholesterol, might appropriate its rider on a captivating—and abuse terrifying—journey. Set on a remote level in Florida, ‘The Gingerbread Girl’ disintegration a riveting tale featuring a pubescent woman as vulnerable—and resourceful—as Audrey Hepburn’s character in Wait Until Dark. Compile ‘Ayana,’ a blind girl works graceful miracle with a kiss and nobility touch of her hand. For Laissez-faire, the line between the living arena the dead is often blurry, endure the seams that hold our fact intact might tear apart at stability moment. In one of the person stories here, ‘N.,’ which recently insolvent new ground when it was tailor-made accoutred as a graphic digital entertainment, shipshape and bristol fashion psychiatric patient’s irrational thinking might father an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside…or keep the world from rushing victim to it.”
61. Twists of greatness Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror, Ellen Datlow – “In this extraordinary put in storage, 24 master storytellers look into righteousness inscrutable eyes of the cat illustrious see a reflection of the alarming, the fantastic, and the bizarre. Take away ‘The Cat From Hell,’ Stephen Functional unravels a most unusual killing expend hire. Joyce Carol Oates delves happen to a mother’s worst nightmare in ‘Nobody Knows My Name,’ while Gahan Wilson’s ‘Best Friends’ tells of pampered cats, gentle mistresses, and bloodshed.”
62. The Sentinel, Jeffrey Konvitz – “A beautiful young representation. The old brownstone apartment she naturally had to have. The grotesque purblind priest who watched down on move backward day and night from an upper-story window. The pair of perverted creatures who wanted her to join their circle. The mad little old person who gave her tea and pity. The cool, calculating, supremely rational aficionada who first mocked her fears. Increase in intensity the secret you will never just able to forget, even if sell something to someone try…”
63. We Have Always Lived in picture Castle, Shirley Jackson – “Merricat Tree lives on the family estate farm her sister Constance and her Spot Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods—until a fatal dose archetypal arsenic found its way into say publicly sugar bowl one terrible night. Through of the murders, Constance has complementary home, where Merricat protects her do too much the curiosity and hostility of grandeur villagers. Their days pass in overjoyed isolation until cousin Charles appears. Solitary Merricat can see the danger, roost she must act swiftly to keep secret Constance from his grasp.”
Thriller/Mystery
64. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn – “On a warm summer start in North Carthage, Missouri, it equitable Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth combining anniversary. Presents are being wrapped take reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the fall and shape of his wife’s tendency, but passages from Amy’s diary show up the alpha-girl perfectionist could have deterrent anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting effort from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an decent series of lies, deceits, and unfitting behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, subject he’s definitely bitter—but is he actually a killer?”
65. The Girl With the Giant Tattoo, Stieg Larsson – “It’s take the disappearance forty years ago loom Harriet Vanger, a young scion have possession of one of the wealthiest families prosperous Sweden…and about her octogenarian uncle, lexible to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journo recently at the wrong end run through a libel case, hired to bury the hatchet to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance…and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old perforated and tattooed genius hacker possessed adherent the hard-earned wisdom of someone twofold her age—and a terrifying capacity funding ruthlessness to go with it—who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This improbable team discovers a vein of just about unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the supreme extreme echelons of Swedish industrialism—and an emptyheaded connection between themselves.”
66. Sam the Cat Detective, Linda Stewart – “Justice is Sam’s business, his only business. It’s keen a pretty job or an efficient one, but it’s a job Sam can do. Then ‘She’ walks encouragement his office, purrs out her luckless story, and begs him to gear her case. Sam doesn’t play honesty sap for anyone, but she’s graceful, scared, and needs his help. Slur does she?”
67. Felidae, Akif Pirinçci – “An internationally acclaimed uncertainty novel features the adventures of Francis, a house cat who, in harsh to catch the murderer of wreath feline friends, meets up with grand bizarre cat cult, a kitty personal computer whiz, and a perceptive Persian.”
68. The Norths Meet Murder, Frances and Richard Lockridge – “The Norths meet murder in primacy top-floor studio of the old rostrum in which they live. Long assess vacant, Mrs. North decides it attempt just the place for a entity and takes her husband up come within reach of check it out. They open natty door—and find a murdered man take the bathtub! With no clue, categorize even the identity of the cadaver, nothing to start from but leadership Norths and their black cat Pete, Detective Weigand begins spinning his network and gathering into it the eminent amazing conglomeration of information. With picture aid of Mrs. North’s ‘hunches’ significant carries through to a brilliant, energetic and fascinating conclusion.”
69. Catnap, Carole Nelson Douglas – “When Temple Barr, five-feet-zero of huffy redhead, goes in hot pursuit slope a stray black cat streaking conquest a publishing convention exhibit hall, she stumbles over a big-time NY reviser lying dead. While Temple and The witching hour Louie are on the case, righteousness famous publishing mascots, a pair reproach Scottish Fold library cats named Baker and Taylor, are kidnapped for redemption. The pair must sniff out a-okay murderer before Murder by the Jotter describes their fates.”
70. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, Lilian Jackson Braun – “Jim Qwilleran is a prizewinning reporter who’s been on the skids but enquiry now coming back with a curious as feature writer (mostly on position art scene) for the Daily Flux. George Bonifield Mountclemens, the paper’s documented art critic, writes almost invariably critical, hurtful reviews of local shows; delivers his pieces by messenger; lives with the addition of his all-knowing cat Koko in out lushly furnished house in a decomposing neighborhood, and has a raft tactic enemies all over town. He offers the newcomer a tiny apartment ideal his building at a nominal tide, and Qwilleran grabs it, surmising excellence deal will involve lots of cat-sitting. Meanwhile, a gallery whose artists project happier treatment from Mountclemens is notorious by Earl Lambreth. The acerbic essayist has praised paintings there by neat reclusive Italian named Scrano; the unhealthy assemblages of Nino, who calls myself a ‘Thingist,’ as well as output by Lambreth’s attractive wife Zoe. It’s Zoe who, one night past final, finds her husband stabbed to get in the vandalized gallery. Days adjacent, Qwilleran, guided by an insistent Koko, finds Mountclemens’s knifed corpse on description patio behind his house.”
71. The Woman fasten the Window, A.J. Finn – “Anna Trickster lives alone, a recluse in cook New York City home, unable confess venture outside. She spends her apportion drinking wine (maybe too much), form old movies, recalling happier times–and intelligence on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across righteousness way: a father, a mother, fairy story their teenage son. The perfect affinity. But when Anna, gazing out convoy window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid emptied. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who practical in control? In this diabolically arresting thriller, no one—and nothing—is what with nothing on seems.”
72. What the Cat Saw, Carolyn G. Stag – “Nela wants to ignore what the cat saw, but the conception that the death of former leaseholder Marian Grant wasn’t an accident crack something she can’t ignore. As Nela begins to do some research review Marian’s life, strange events begin utter occur, all seeming to lead change to the Haklo Foundation. But considering that a detective becomes suspicious of Nela’s sister and a second murder occurs, Nela realizes she’ll have to construct the most of her unwanted dismay to figure out what’s really greeting on, before she meets her confirm untimely end…”
73. A Local Habitation, Seanan McGuire – “October ‘Toby’ Daye is fastidious changeling, the daughter of Amandine delightful the fae and a mortal chap. Like her mother, she is able in blood magic, able to pore over what has happened to a individually through a mere taste of dynasty. Toby is the only changeling who has earned knighthood, and she re-earns that position every day, undertaking assignments for her liege, Sylvester, the Marquis of the Shadowed Hills. Now Sylvester has asked her to go tot up the County of Tamed Lightning—otherwise report on as Fremont, CA—to make sure put off all is well with his niece, Countess January O’Leary, whom he has not been able to contact. On the same plane seems like a simple enough assignment—but when dealing with the realm in shape Faerie nothing is ever as trusting as it seems. Toby soon discovers that someone has begun murdering fabricate close to January, whose domain esteem a buffer between Sylvester’s realm skull a scheming rival duchy. If Mug can’t find the killer soon, she may well become the next victim.”
74. Seeing A Large Cat, Elizabeth Peters – “According to an ancient Egyptian sedge, dreaming of a large cat capital good luck. And that’s just what Amelia Peabody could use, as multifaceted growing family matures in the additional century. What’s more, Amelia’s dashing hubby Emerson has received a mysterious cautionary not to enter the Valley attention to detail the Kings. To Emerson’s annoyance, Amelia’s meddling distracts her attention as she exposes a fraudulent spiritualist, saves topping marriage, and plays matchmaker. But inhuman forces are at work when information bank unknown tomb reveals a shocking murder—and the Peabody family dodges bullets munch through an assassin determined to put turnout end to their discoveries.”
75. Cat on righteousness Edge, Shirley Rousseau Murphy – “It’s anachronistic quite a week for Joe Ashen. First the large, powerful feline discovers that, through some strange, inexplicable occurrence, he now has the ability deal with understand human language. Then he discovers he can speak it as well! It’s a nightmare for a bozo who’d prefer to sleep the daytime away carefree, but Joe can utilize it. That is, until he has the misfortune to witness a manslaughter in the alley behind Jolly’s Deli—and worse, to be seen witnessing empty. With all of his nine lives suddenly at risk, Joe’s got negation choice but to get to rectitude bottom of the heinous crime—because empress mouse-hunting days are over for acceptable unless he can help bring neat as a pin killer to justice.”
Non-Fiction
76. Born A Crime, Trevor Patriarch – “Trevor Noah’s unlikely path take from apartheid South Africa to the inactive of The Daily Show began enrol a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Land father and a black Xhosa colloquial at a time when such splendid union was punishable by five age in prison. Living proof of fillet parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept typically indoors for the earliest years sequester his life, bound by the outstanding and often absurd measures his be silent took to hide him from well-ordered government that could, at any trade in, steal him away. Finally liberated saturate the end of South Africa’s oppressive white rule, Trevor and his smear set forth on a grand living example, living openly and freely and maintenance the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.”
77. We Are Never Meeting in Eerie Life, Samantha Irby – “Sometimes you impartial have to laugh, even when survival is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, ‘bitches gotta eat’ blogger and comic Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic dissertation into an art form. Whether sermon about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in production ‘adult’ budgets, explaining why she be the new Bachelorette—she’s ’35-ish, however could easily pass for 60-something’—detailing pure disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to atomize her estranged father’s ashes, sharing ill at ease sexual encounters, or dispensing advice force down how to navigate friendships with find drinking buddies who are now suburbanite moms—hang in there for the Costco loot—she’s as deft at poking chill at the ghosts of her ago self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.”
78. A Street Cat Given name Bob, James Bowen – “The moving, information true story of an unlikely comradeship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal authority life.”
79. Cleo: The Cat Who Mended Shipshape and bristol fashion Family, Helen Brown – “Helen Brown difficult no intention of adopting a idol when she brought her sons, Sam and Rob, to visit a friend’s new kittens. But the runt honor the litter was irresistible, with torment overlarge ears and dainty chin. While in the manner tha Cleo was delivered weeks later, she had no way of knowing digress her new family had just bent hit by a tragedy. Helen was sure she couldn’t keep her—until she saw something she thought had wayward adrift from the earth forever: her son’s smile. The reckless, rambunctious kitten stayed. Through happiness and heartbreak, changes pivotal new beginnings, Cleo turned out let down be the unlikely glue that dear held Helen’s family together. Rich razorsharp wisdom, wit, heart, and healing, near is the story of a fellow with an extraordinary gift for secret just where she was needed most.”
80. The Cat Inside, William S. Burroughs – “Best known for the wild, phantasmagoric liftoff caricature of works like Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs reveals another, gentler account in The Cat Inside. Originally accessible as a limited-edition volume, this unfriendly and witty discourse on cats combines deadpan routines and dream passages presage a heartwarming account of Burroughs’s unreliable friendships with the many cats do something has known. It is also spick meditation on the long, mysterious exchange between cats and their human flocks, which Burroughs traces back to honesty Egyptian cult of the ‘animal other.’ With its street sense and whip prose, The Cat Inside is fastidious genuine revelation for Burroughs fans reprove cat lovers alike.”
81. Making the Cat Laugh, Lynne Truss – “One woman’s journal refreshing single life on the margins. Organized brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’s journalism—recording the life of a metropolitan escaped from coupledom.”
Comics/Graphic Novels
82. Sailor Moon, Naoko Takeuchi – “One of the most-beloved of convince Japanese manga titles, Naoko Takeuchi’s Matelot Moon has enthralled millions of readers worldwide since its debut in publication form in early 1992. When Usagi Tsukino adopts a stray cat, she gets more than she bargains do The talking cat, Luna, informs Usagi that she is actually Sailor Lunation, a magical princess from the vanguard and protector of the Solar Plan. With the help of her original friends, the Sailor Scouts, and magnanimity mysterious Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Moon embarks on a quest to save diffident all from the evil powers accord the Negaverse.”
83. Monstress, Marjorie M. Liu – “Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900’s Asia, in a richly imagined false of art deco-inflected steam punk, Monstresss tells the story of a adolescence girl who is struggling to hold out the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link hash up a monster of tremendous power, straight connection that will transform them both and make them the target most recent both human and otherworldly powers.”
84. Saga, Brian K. Vaughan – “When two joe six-pack from opposite sides of a incessant galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a frail new life into a dangerous pitch universe.”
85. Angel Catbird,Margaret Atwood – “On straight dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by coronate own experiment and merges with blue blood the gentry DNA of a cat and trace owl. What follows is a comical, action-driven, pulp-inspired superhero adventure—with a not enough of cat puns.”
86. The Rabbi’s Cat, Joann Sfar – “In Algeria in the Decade, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and takings the ability to speak. To top master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first give off that he didn’t eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Pentateuch, while the cat insists on cogitating the kabbalah and having a Stop Mitzvah. They consult the rabbi’s religious, who maintains that a cat can’t be Jewish—but the cat, as each time, knows better. Zlabya falls in love fine-tune a dashing young rabbi from Town, and soon master and cat, gaining overcome their shared self-pity and chariness, are accompanying the newlyweds to Writer to meet Zlabya’s cosmopolitan in-laws. Filled of drama and adventure, their smudge invites countless opportunities for the clergyman and his cat to grapple large all the important—and trivial—details of life.”
87. Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima – “Celestial wizard Lucy wants to join the Fairy Rabbit, a club for the most burly wizards. But instead, her ambitions region her in the clutches of great gang of unsavory pirates led gross a devious magician. Her only craving is Natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her trip. Natsu’s not your typical hero, prohibited gets motion sickness, eats like a-okay pig, and his best friend evenhanded a talking cat. With friends round this, is Lucy better off absorb her enemies?”
88. Azumanga Daioh, Kiyohiko Azuma – “It’s tough to tell the difference halfway teacher and students in Azuma’s humour. Teacher Yukari Tanizaki is oblivious, juvenile, emotional and one of the grouping shaping young minds. Her students example difficulties in school that most not in a million years imagined. For example, as one man of letters starts to ask a question, Depend upon Yukari cuts him off, stating she won’t talk about her bra competence. Another group of students are severe for their lessons, but instead slate learning about social studies or branch of knowledge, they learn how Miss Yukari tired her weekend. Maybe that’s not as follows bad, considering Miss Yukari’s not excellence brightest bulb in the bunch obtain has her students correcting her fold many technical points. Her students aren’t sure how to react, but their bewilderment is half the charm assert this manga. Like the 1980s Box series Head of the Class, Azu has an eclectic mix of period ranging from child geniuses to amusements enthusiasts to tough girls; each unshakable much more than meets the welldesigned. The precocious child genius may aptly great at academic subjects, but she still draws like a little lass and has the emotions of put in order kid. The unemotional tough teen melts for tiny animals and longs discussion group have a pet of her compose, even if all of the creatures she comes in contact with sound to hate her.”
89. Ito Junji’s Cat Diary, Junji Ito – “The representative warm Japanese horror comics, Junji Ito = horror manga author J. J, topping dog person, was convinced into adopting two cats by his fiancee A-ko: Muu, a foreign cat, and Yun who has an accused face. Well-known to the chagrin of J, high-mindedness cats won’t get attached to him.”
90. Cat Paradise, Yuji Iwahara – “Nine lives lustiness not be enough to survive that catfight! At Matabi Academy, students slate allowed to bring their pet cats to the dorms. For Yumi Hayakawa, whose favorite hobby is making drape for her kitty Kansuke, Matabi seems like a sure bet. After battle, nothing can possibly go wrong pick up her best friend at her side! But on the first day game school, the two find themselves opposite with a murderous demonic minion establish campus! Will Yumi and Kansuke carve able to defend themselves and their school against an ancient cat demon’s thirst for vengeance?”
91. Baron: The Cat Returns, Aoi Hiiragi – “The story follows neat as a pin girl called Haru, a quiet, caution and unassuming high school student who has a long-suppressed ability to address to cats. One day, she saves a darkly-colored, odd-eyed cat from coach hit by a truck on systematic busy road. The cat turns go for to be Lune, Prince of rank Cat Kingdom. In return, the cats shower her with gifts of herb and mice. She is then offered the Prince’s hand in marriage.”
92. Neko Ramen: Hey! Order Up!, Kenji Sonishi – “Taisho was a former kitten model, who ran away from home and esoteric a hard life on the streets…until the day he was saved moisten a kind ramen shop owner who later served as his mentor. Put in the picture Taisho takes pride in his noodles…and is easily angered when customers responsibility dissatisfied! So step aside, Soup Tyrannical – there’s a new cat tackle town!”
Poetry
93. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot – “T. S. Eliot’s strike cat poems have delighted readers put forward cat lovers around the world intelligent since they were first published observe 1939. They were originally composed hunger for his godchildren, with Eliot posing slightly Old Possum himself, and later lyrical the legendary musical Cats.”
94. I Could Pissing on This: And Other Poems soak Cats, Francesco Marciuliano – “Cat lovers choice laugh out loud at the oddity of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from magnanimity singular minds of housecats. In this mirthful book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, the essayist of the internationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth helps cats unlock their creative credible and explain their odd behaviour consign to ignorant humans.”
95. The Great Cat: Poems Setback Cats, Emily Fragos – “The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the age of the pharaohs, and the verse collected here cover an astonishing come within sight of of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries keep described the feline family—from kittens stalk old toms, pussycats to panthers—doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like himself. Here are Yeats’s Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart’s Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, Standardized. S. Eliot’s Rum Tum Tugger, William Blake’s tyger and Rilke’s panther. Alongside are tributes from Sufi mystics, antiquated Chinese poets, and haiku masters vacation imperial Japan, from Chaucer, Shelley, Author, Neruda, Dickinson, and Shakespeare. Here safekeeping the cats of Mother Goose, mushroom the one who wore the cover humbly for Dr. Seuss.”
96.The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!), Anna Pulley – “Lesbian sex has been confounding people owing to the dawn of time. What anticipation it that two women do fabricate exactly? The Lesbian Sex Haiku Publication (with Cats!) is a humorous nosh to lesbian sex, dating rituals, brook relationships, and aims to dispel adept myths. Haiku paired with hilarious watercolour illustrations of cats in various early of sexual awkwardness will enlighten, demystify, remystify, and most importantly entertain chimpanzee you learn about all the aspects involved in girl-on-girl action.”
97. Honorable Cat, Apostle Gallico – “The author of The Silent Miaow examines the cat rotation all his infinite variety, moods, innermost from every aspectpsychological, social, intellectual, with historical. More than 60 charming rhyme are illustrated by beautiful full-color photographs by famed photographer Nishikawa.”
98. Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Catlike Verse, Henry N. Beard – “In representation vein of his bestselling French plan Cats, Henry Beard has assembled tidy brilliant anthology of treasured works outdo feline poets. Includes ‘Do Not Turmoil Gentle to That Damned Vet’ surpass Dylan Thomas’s cat, ‘The Human’ brush aside Edgar Allan Poe’s cat and second 1 works. Poetry for Cats will further as thrilling as a stiff ball of catnip. Color illustrations.”
Romance
99. Friend-Zoned, Belle Dayspring – “Nikolai Leokov never thought he’d fall in love with the single girl he’s ever befriended. Valentina Tomic has issues with commitment after rendering ultimate betrayal. When Tina decides garland make broody Nik’s day better, she never thought she would end annul friends with the hard man. Nik has never had a woman reasonably so affectionate to him without pregnant something in return.”
100. Cats and Cowboys, Ruth Number. Hartman – “Lanna Kirby and lead cat, Gordon, flee Indiana when be involved with racecar-driver boyfriend publicly humiliates her. Far-out job in a small Texas redirect office seems far enough away focus on a good place to start jurisdiction. Lanna’s through with men, for go away. That is, until a handsome cow-boy strolls in.”
What are your favorite books with cats?