Over the past couple of months, I've read a few books that I didn't get a chance to review yet. These were all enjoyable in different ways and are recommended reads. A Will to Kill by R. V. Raman I've been looking for an Indian mystery for a while now. So when I came across A Will to Kill in Netgalley set in one of my favorite places in India (also close to my home town), I just had to request it. In so many ways, this is a typical Agatha Christie type mystery - there's a death (in an isolated mansion, no less) and the investigator/detective tries to solve the mystery. Harith Athreya is visiting the owner of the mansion, Bhaskar Fernandez, where a small gathering has been planned for the owner's relatives and friends. Bhaskar has written two wills - and how he dies will determine which will goes into effect. That night, there is a murder and Athreya spends the next few days trying to find the culprit. I generally enjoy the Agatha Christie class of murder mysteries.

Couple of weeks ago, I came across this list in NPR books. My brother first shared it with me, then I saw it featured on the websites of a couple of bloggers I follow and then I kept running into it every once in a while. NPR Books asked its readers to vote for their favorite science-fiction or fantasy reads and drew up this list of top 100 from the votes. This is the kind of reading list that I love the best, because it is based on popular opinion and not something that a few people at a table decide from a few nominations. And when I looked through this list, I found very little to complain about. True, I haven't read most of these books, but many are titles that I have been recommended time and again by readers whose tastes I trust. Besides, I like it that the books in the list are not YA fantasy but something that caters to the adult readers as well (or mostly?).
Still, I have to say that I am surprised to see The Time Traveler's Wife and the Outlander series in the list. I read and liked the former, but I wouldn't rate it among the top fantasy reads. As for the Outlander series, I have no interest in reading the books, I know some have loved it and some have felt meh about it, but I have a feeling Outlander and I are not going to get along well. George Martin's series is the one I'm most keen to read - I'm hoping to get a chunk of reading time at some point to work through these HUGE doorstoppers. Do you like this list?
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert
- A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
Animal Farm by George Orwell- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (Watched the movie)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny
- The Belgariad by David Eddings
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
- Ringworld by Larry Niven
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- World War Z by Max Brooks
- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
- The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
- The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
- The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
- The Conan the Barbarian Series by Robert E. Howard & Mark Schultz
- The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger- The Way of the Kings by Brandon Sanderson
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (Watched movie)
- The Legend of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore
- Old Man's War by Jon Scalzi
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series by Steven Erikson
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- The Culture Series by Iain Banks
- The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
- The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
- The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
- The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
- The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (I've read some stories from this collection)
- Sunshine by Robin McKinley
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
- The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
- The Xanath Series by Piers Anthony
- The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Last night, I started reading Miriam Toews' Irma Voth. I read her The Flying Troutmans two years ago and fell in love with her conversational writing about dysfunctional families. Since then, I had been planning to read more of her books, especially A Complicated Kindness, which has received a lot of praise. Irma Voth features similar elements in a different setting and the writring is just as wonderful. If you haven't read any of Miriam Toews' books, I hope you give her a try. Her characters are about as realistic as real people and their dysfunctional relationships only serve to remind me that all people are just like that - there really is no perfect person or family. I'm reading this book for a TLC book tour and my review should hopefully be posted next week.

Comments
I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the Game of Thrones series! I'm close to buying my set too!
I agree that Outlander is more Romance and Historical Fiction that just happens to have time travel involved. I really wouldn't classify it as Sci-Fi. That being said, it's one of my favorite series. Sadly only the first three books held up for me upon my last re-read. I think I may be growing out of the series.