In which I jump on the "NPR's 50 Best Scifi/Fantasy Books of the Decade" bandwagon

And why not? It's Sunday night, I'm procrastinating, and this stuff is fun. It was pretty clear from even a quick glance that the list was probably driven more by marketing considerations than by fans' votes. (How else to explain the inclusion of Ishiguro's The Buried Giant if not to nudge readers toward Klara and the Sun, which NPR could not believably have claimed had made the cut.)

The "How We Built This" sections, in which NPR confirms that they gave themselves a free hand to ensure that any book they wanted to make the final cut, would make the final cut, are pretty fascinating to pick apart. Even so, I was still surprised to find that some of the titles I assumed would be shoe-ins didn't make the cut; for instance, Naomi Alderman's The Power and Katherine Arden's Winternight trilogy are nowhere in evidence.

It got me thinking, what books would I have put on the list. ( Wonder no more. )

So what did get any particular book onto NPR's list? ( These factors seemed to help. )

And, because after all that, I can't very well not, here's ( my reading tally of NPR's original list. )

これで以上です。