Best Crime Novels

Who doesn't love a good mystery?

Booklist has published a best crime novels list for 2010 and the first part of 2011...and their lists can usually be relied upon for some good suggestions.

I haven't read a single one, but at least two of my favorites authors are included: Henning Mankell and Kate Atkinson.

Introducing the 2010 Megalist: All the Best Books of the Year in One Spreadsheet

Wow!

If you are looking for a good book to read, check out the megalists posted and created by Williamsburg Regional Library. It lists in three big spreadsheets all the best books of the year from 2010, 2009 and 2008.

It even classifies them by popular genres - general fiction, mysteries, YA Fiction, non-fiction, etc.

It's fun and very complete!

Introducing the 2010 Megalist: All the Best Books of the Year in One Spreadsheet

NYT Notable Books

In case you missed it, the New York Times listed its 100 notable books for 2010 yesterday.

I can only report that I've read three books on the list, each of which I enjoyed thoroughly:

• The Great House by Nicole Krauss


• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson


• One Day by David Nicholls

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is, of course, the conclusion to Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. It was a wonderful conclusion to the series.

I'm just now finishing The Great House, and I highly recommend it as an audio book. It is densely written, but really comes alive when read aloud by the expert narrators in the audio version. Reader beware: it's a book about loss...so perhaps it's not for people looking for a lighter read.

Finally, One Day is fun romance that follows a man and a woman on the same day each year over the course of their lives.

Happy reading!

Best Books of 2010: Library Journal's Top Ten

Best Books lists of 2010 are starting to be released. It's always fun to see what you've read, what you've missed, and what you can't believe made the list.

Library Journal has named its 10 best books:

• American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen
  
• By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
  
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  
• How To Live, Or, a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
  
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
  
• Room by Emma Donoghue
  
• The Tiger by John Vaillant
  
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  
• Walker Evans Decade by Decade text by James Crump (Hatje Cantz)

I've only read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which I enjoyed a great deal. I tried listening to The Passage, and couldn't make it past the first or second CD.

Are any of these books that you enjoyed?