Mothering Sunday, Graham Swift
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Foster, Claire Keegan
Deer Season, Erin Flanagan
The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante
Ghost Light, Frank Rich
Taste, Stanley Tucci
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrel
Life's Work, David Milch
The Sacrament, Olaf Olafsson
I have not read any of these, but I plan to read the books by Claire Keegan for sure and possibly Hamnet.
ReplyDeleteKen Bruen, Galway Eiphany
ReplyDeleteJame_ Lee Burke, Je_u_ Went Out to _ea
P. Djeli Clark, A Ma_ter of Djinn
Ma_ Allan Collin_ & A. Brad _chwartz, Elliot Ne__ and the Mad Butcher
_. A. Co_by, Razorblade Tear_
Martin Edward_, The _erpent Pool
Grady Hendri_ & Will Errick_on, Paperback_ from Hell
_tephen Graham Jone_, The Only Good Indian
_tephen King, Fairy Tale
Joe R. Lan_dale, The_ky Done Ripped
Darcie Little Badger, A _nake Fall to Earth
_ilvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Richard O_man, The Bullet That Mi__ed
Eric Frank Ru__ell, The Rabble Rou_er_
Thorne _mith, _kin and Bone_
Catriona Ward, The Hou_e on Needle__ _treet
F. Paul Wil_on, Double Threat
Okay, it'_ not ten, but there ju_t too many good book_ that I read in 2002 -- and the year'_ not over yet! It took a lot of work to narrow the li_t down thi_ far.
BTW, the book_ u_ed all 26 letter_ of the alphabet, unlike my li_t.
Jerry-so glad to see you back. Getting worried.
ReplyDeleteWe watch different shows, read different books and yet we inhabit the same little world.
It i_ an honor to _hare the _ame little world with you and your ever-intere_ting ca_t of blog follower_, Patti!
ReplyDeleteNice list. I haven't done mine yet, other than the non-fiction and short stories (of which there are more than 50 collections). I just downloaded Keegan's FOSTER from the library. The Tucci and Milch books are on my non fiction list. Oh, heck, here is that list:
ReplyDeleteBill Geist, Lake of the Ozarks
Lawrence Block, A Writer Prepares
Amy Bloom, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Ann Hood, Fly Girl: A Memoir
Stanley Tucci, Taste, My Life Through Food
Chris Offutt, My Father the Pornographer
Martin Edwards, The Life of Crime
David Milch, Life's Work: A Memoir
Some of the short stories, though I don't know if any will make my top 10 fiction list:
Bill Pronzini, Dago Red
Edward D. Hoch, Constant Hearses & Other Revolutionary Mysteries
Chris Offutt, Out of the Woods
Dan Chaon, Among the Missing or Stay Awake
Currently reading Amy Hempel and Jess Walter, with the Keegan to follow.
Thanks for this, Patti. I love having ideas for what to read from people I trust.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Margot!
ReplyDeleteI read the BLock book and I have the Edwards book. Have read some Chaon and lots of Bloom and Pronzini.
OK, here are the mysteries in order read (not preference):
ReplyDeleteNick Petrie, The Runaway
Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead (first novel, set 1940s)
Jeffrey Siger, One Last Chance
Brandon Webb & John David Mann, Cold Fear
Paula Munier, The Wedding Plot
Ramona Emerson, Shutter (first novel, New Mexico native Americans)
Chris Offutt, The Killing Hills (my favorite of the year) and Shifty's Boys
Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl
Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed
Hayley Scrivenor, Dirt Creek (Aussie first novel)
Michael Connelly, Desert Star
Shelley Burr, Wake (another first Australian novel)
Other fiction:
Frederick Bachmann, Anxious People
Nita Prose, The Maid (sort of a mystery)
Roddy Doyle, Without Children (ss)
John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
Stephen King, Billy Summers
Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow (time travel)
Mine coming in the next few...barring the flood!
ReplyDeleteRead the Straub, the Bachman, the Robotham.
ReplyDeleteTodd, a real apocalypse, I guess.
OK, I read Keegan's FOSTER. A beautifully written little book, very touching.
ReplyDeletePatti, I read FOSTER and GHOST LIGHT on your list. My list of favorite books of 2022 will be up on my blog next week.
ReplyDeleteWell, I decided I want to take more time with the item I was trying to write, so I substitute for our As Usual late purposes tonight an expansion of a "lost" item from Ed Gorman (and Robert Randisi and Martin Greenberg's) set of BOTY anthologies...their first, a one-shot from NAL. UNDER THE GUN (1990)...
ReplyDeletehttps://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-best-crime-fiction-of-year-annuals.html