Hi all,
Just looking for suggestions from the 90s. I loved Jurassic Park and The Perfect Storm, but I am coming up a little short as far as other 90s books off the top of my head. American Psycho was decent. What would you suggest as absolute essential 90s books?
by ichuck1984
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Into Thin Air
The Poet is a 1996 crime thriller novel by Michael Connelly, the first in his Jack McEvoy series and his first novel not to feature Detective Harry Bosch. The story follows Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy as he investigates a series of police suicides, which he discovers are actually murders committed by a serial killer who leaves poetic clues from Edgar Allan Poe at the crime scenes. The killer, Robert Backus, targets cops haunted by unsolved cases, and McEvoy finds himself in a dangerous race to expose the killer before becoming his next victim.
Blindness, The Poisonwood Bible, Memoirs of a Geisha… and two that are maybe more fun than classics– Jurassic Park and High Fidelity….
Trainspotting and Bridget Jones Diary seemed pretty quintessential 90s – maybe bc of movies too
Erasure by Percival Everett doesn’t get mentioned often in this sub, so I’m putting it out there. It’s smart, funny, sad, and infuriating. A few years ago, Hollywood made a solid adaptation, American Fiction, which is also worth watching.
Game of Thrones- G.R. Martin’s first book! Check it out. 1996
Snow Falling on Cedars – Guterson
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Firm. John Grisham.