Chabon Ranking.

Of what I have thus far read of Michael Chabon, my favorite author, here is my ranking from best to worst:

1. Wonder Boys.
2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
3. The Yiddish Policemans Union.
4. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
5. The Final Solution.

I just finished YPU (for which one of my freshman college roommates wrote a laudatory blurb that appears inside the front cover). The ending has problems, and doesn't quite transcend the hard-boiled drama in the way that Chabon achieves in the first 2/3rds of the novel. Oh well, still awesome. Of these 5, I really only actively disliked The Final Solution.