“Watchtower” by Elizabeth A Lynn — aka The Unreliability of Book Lists

Cover of the version I first read.

Last week I posted an “off-the-top-of-my head” list of favourite reads.

As with everything, there can be positives and negatives to impromptu lists. On the one hand, one tends to reach for the tried and true, so the chances are these are books one has really liked, without too much internal editing before jotting down the titles.

On the other, there may also be a tendency to tread well-worn paths, with a bias toward older titles. And sometimes you just forget really great rea...