Many of the books on the Forbes list are also recommended by other sources...and reading the descriptions there seems to be a running theme.
I have a copy of 'The True History of Pardise'...but have yet to read...maybe I'll do that this weekend and let you know what I think.
From the perspective of living here and to get a better understanding from these author's points of view...a couple of books on the list that seem interesting to me would be...'Myal' and maybe the book 'Finding Samuel Lowe:'.
Thanks for sharing!