I fell down in my blogging of every book I read for the year. Here at least is a list, if not a review of each.
First there's my Scandinavian mystery period!
The Ice Princess-- Camilla Lackberg
The Preacher -- Lackberg
The Red Breast -- Jo Nesbro
Nemesis -- Nesbro
The Devil's Star -- Nesbro
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Steig Larsson
And all the others that I can remember, or look up on my library record:
Florence of Arabia -- Christopher Buckley --great satire!
Sugarmilk Falls -- Ilona van Mil
When Will There Be Good News -- Kate Atkinson
The Caliph's House -- Tahir Shah
The Language of Bees -- Laurie R. King
When Gods Die -- C.S. Harris
The Thirteenth Tale -- Diane Setterfield
The Hour That I First Believed -- Wally Lamb
Free Fire -- Alafair Burke
The Arms Maker of Berlin -- Dan Fesperman
Christine Falls -- Benjamin Black
The Lemur -- Benjamin Black
What They Wanted -- Donna Morrissey
The Girl Who Played with Fire -- Steig Larsson
The Forgotten Garden -- Kate Morton
The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- Muriel Barberry
And the best book I read this year--
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, a wonderful collection of linked short stories that revolve around Olive, presenting a realistic portrait of a flawed human being written in luminous prose.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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