Never until this year have I kept track of what I'm reading
- thank Goodreads for that - and I'm not a Top Ten sort of person - but
yesterday my younger son sent me his Top Ten and it was easy enough to select,
from the 127 read so far, the twenty I'd awarded five stars.
Duplicates of all but one author were eliminated, as were books read for the
second time (Angla Carter's 'Love', Iain Banks 'Espedair Street', Ian
Rankin).
All were memorable except for Sarah Moss's 'Waking' which, from my review, I was impressed with at the time but cannot now recall - obviously I need to re-read that one.
What is left is in no particular order, but is surprising insofar as there are not that many crime fiction there - most of them fell into the four star category, which totalled forty-seven.
All were memorable except for Sarah Moss's 'Waking' which, from my review, I was impressed with at the time but cannot now recall - obviously I need to re-read that one.
What is left is in no particular order, but is surprising insofar as there are not that many crime fiction there - most of them fell into the four star category, which totalled forty-seven.
Denise Mina Garnethill
Louise Welsh The Bullet Trick
Angela Carter
Heroes and villains
Jose Carlos Somoza The
Art of murder
Michael Robotham Shatter
Sarah Hall How to paint a dead man
Cormac McCarthy No
country for old men
Stuart MacBride Birthdays
for the dead
Cormac McCarthy Blood
Meridian
Douglas Coupland Eleanor
Rigby
I haven't read any of them - although I am familiar with some of the authors. I don't think I could list my top ten for this year - but I could tell you a few I disliked!
ReplyDeleteHave to say I was pleasantly surprised that more than half were four star or above, and only four were one stars (and two would have had none if that had been possible for me also to have reviewed them)
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