Those books are in order from best to worst:
- Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott Lynch
- Akata Witch, by Nnedi Okorafor
- Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals, by Richard Conniff
- Rebel Belle, by Rachel Hawkins
- Growing Up Weightless, by John M. Ford
- The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
- The Life of the Skies, by Jonathan Rosen