My criteria aren’t as complex. I usually read the summary or the first sentences and if there is an idea that sounds new to me I will read the book. If it annoys me in the first 100 pages I give up.

I think Raiders of the lost Ark is perfect in a way.

I also love

Leon: The Professional La Haine Home Alone Braindead

I’m still trying hard to remember the one I thought of a while ago while writing these down.

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator’s “voice”.