{"id":7509,"date":"2015-12-11T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=7509"},"modified":"2015-12-11T21:50:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T02:50:11","slug":"fiction-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/fiction-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my list of best fiction books that aren&#8217;t science fiction or fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Best of the best<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pride and Prejudice \u2013 Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li>The DaVinci Code \u2013 Dan Brown<\/li>\n<li>Shogun \u2013 James Clavell<\/li>\n<li>Tai-pan \u2013 James Clavell<\/li>\n<li>Gai-jin \u2013 James Clavell<\/li>\n<li>Noble House \u2013 James Clavell<\/li>\n<li>Whirlwind \u2013 James Clavell<\/li>\n<li>Generation X \u2013 Douglas Coupland<\/li>\n<li>Aztec \u2013 Gary Jennings<\/li>\n<li>Too Many Blackbirds \u2013 Ken Ledbetter<\/li>\n<li>Life of Pi \u2013 Yann Martel<\/li>\n<li>Ishmael \u2013 Daniel Quinn<\/li>\n<li>The Story of B \u2013 Daniel Quinn<\/li>\n<li>My Ishmael \u2013 Daniel Quinn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner ups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angels and Demons \u2013 Dan Brown<\/li>\n<li>The Rule of Four \u2013 Ian Caldwell &amp; Dustin Thomason<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/the-gum-thief\/\">The Gum Thief<\/a> \u2013 Douglas Coupland<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/generation-a\/\">Generation A<\/a> \u2013 Douglas Coupland<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/shampoo-planet\/\">Shampoo Planet<\/a> \u2013 Douglas Coupland<\/li>\n<li>Peacetalk 101 \u2013 Suzette Haden Elgin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-beekeepers-pupil\/\">The Beekeeper&#8217;s Pupil<\/a> \u2013 Sara George<\/li>\n<li>Still Alice \u2013 Lisa Genova<\/li>\n<li>The White Bone \u2013 Barbara Gowdy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/ape-house\/\">Ape House<\/a> \u2013 Sara Gruen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/codex\/\">Codex<\/a> \u2013 Lev Grossman<\/li>\n<li>Diary of a Wimpy Kid \u2013 Jeff Kinney<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/lamb-the-gospel-according-to-biff-christs-childhood-pal\/\">Lamb<\/a> \u2013 Christopher Moore<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/the-distant-hours\/\">The Distant Hours<\/a> \u2013 Kate Morton<\/li>\n<li>The Holy \u2013 Daniel Quinn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/shaman\/\">Shaman<\/a> \u2013 Kim Stanley Robinson<\/li>\n<li>The Catcher in the Rye \u2013 J. D. Salinger<\/li>\n<li>The Big U \u2013 Neal Stephenson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Track of the Cat \u2013 Nevada Barr<\/li>\n<li>Deception Point \u2013 Dan Brown<\/li>\n<li>Night Train to Memphis \u2013 Elizabeth Peters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my list of best fiction books that aren&#8217;t science fiction or fantasy. Best of the best Pride and Prejudice \u2013 Jane Austen The DaVinci Code \u2013 Dan Brown Shogun \u2013 James Clavell Tai-pan \u2013 James Clavell Gai-jin \u2013 James Clavell Noble House \u2013 James Clavell Whirlwind \u2013 James Clavell Generation X \u2013 Douglas Coupland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7,36,42,28],"class_list":["post-7509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-book","tag-fiction","tag-lists","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7509"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7633,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}