Really enjoyed the book chat this morning at the library with lots of wonderful suggestions on what people had been reading – their favorite books – books they wouldn’t recommend – great authors. We’ll post a list of the authors mentioned.
Really enjoyed the book chat this morning at the library with lots of wonderful suggestions on what people had been reading – their favorite books – books they wouldn’t recommend – great authors. We’ll post a list of the authors mentioned.
Here is a list that Lynette sent us after the meeting – has lots of great mystery/thriller authors for this month and some excellent non-fiction looking ahead to November when we will be reading and talking about history – in all its forms – biography, general history, history about a very specific thing (SALT by Mark Kurlansky), historical fiction or even historical romance.
*Black Out, Die For You, Sliver of Truth Lisa Unger (easy read for escapism)
Ghostwalk Rebecca Stott
*The Angel’s Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
*The Alienist Caleb Carr
*Gabriel Allon Series (e.g. A Death in Vienna) , plus The Unlikely Spy Daniel Silva
*The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Daniel Mendelsohn (non-fiction); amazing story
The Man who Loved Books Too Much Allison Hoover Bartlett, non-fiction
*Found Wanting, Long Time Coming, Sight Unseen Robert Goddard, very good English mystery writer; written a number of books
*The Disappeared Kim Echlin
The Medusa Amulet Robert Masello
The Coral Thief Rebecca Stott
Altar of Bones Philip Carter
The Last Brother Nathacha Appanah
The School of Night Louis Bayard
The Man from Saigon Marti Leimbach
*Iron Horse John Hart
*Portrait of the Spy Daniel Silva
Spycatcher Matthew Dunn
*The Hypnotist Lars Kepler
*Red Leaves Thomas H.Cook
*Master of the Delta Thomas H. Cook
*Before I Go to Sleep .J.Watson
Rogue Island Bruce Desilva
The List Martin Fletcher
Three Seconds Roslund and Hellstrom
*Cell 8 Roslund and Hellstrom
Box 21 Roslund and Hellstrom
*Defending Jacob William Landay
*A Good American Alex George
*Kingdom of Bones Stephen Gallagher
A Darker Domain Val McDermid
*Blue Monday Nicci French
Gods of Gotham Lyndsay Faye
The October Killings Wessel Ebersohn
The Expats Chris Pavone
The Inquisitor Mark Allen Smith
The Neruda Case Robert Ampuero
The Orphanmaster Jean Zimmerman
The Nightmare Lars Kepler
The Absolutist John Boyne
The Fear Artist Timothy Hallihan
A Foreign Country Charles Cumming
Bad Little Falls Paul Doiron
Mission to Paris Alan Furst
City of Women David R. Gillmam
*The Fallen Angel Daniel Silva
A Killing in the Hills Julia Keller
The Absent One Adler-Olsen
*Sutton J.R. Moehringer
Invisible Murder Lene Kaaberbol & Agnette Friis
I’m inspired to read Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn about how Teddy Roosevelt created the National Forest Service with Gifford Pinchot. I’ve spent some time in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest (in Washington State), so I think this will be interesting.
Egan also wrote The Good Rain, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher (about Edward Curtis), and The Worst Hard Time (about the Dust Bowl days) which won the National Book Award.